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Danger Man (titled Secret Agent in the United States, and Destination Danger and John Drake in other non-UK markets) is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. The 10 best TV spy series of the 1960s. The Man from UNCLE? Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation? This month it’s all about responses to ancient responses to James Bond.
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Danger Man (known internationally as Secret Agent) was a British down-to-earth spy series made in. Launched in 1960, originally it was going to bring none other than to the small screen and was involved at early stages. However since the rights for Bond movies had been sold, Danger Man was changed into something quite different. It features a superagent named John Drake, played by Patrick McGoohan - also once a candidate to play Bond in the films - who doesn't like gunplay or violence and generally has morals way too strong to make him comfortable in his job.
His gadgets and enemies are also rooted in reality.Danger Man ran for 86 episodes spread across four seasons of uneven length. The first season aired in half-hour installments in both the UK and on in the US in 1960-61. In this version, Drake is an Irish-American agent working for NATO on jobs considered 'too messy' for organizations such as the CIA. Lack of interest by CBS in further episodes resulted in its cancellation and McGoohan went on to sign a contract with. In 1964, with the rise of Bondmania, a rebooted Danger Man series was launched in the UK; in this version, now running in higher-budgeted hour-long episodes, Drake is a British agent working for a secret agency called M9, though otherwise the character and storytelling remained the same as before. For US broadcast, the series was retitled Secret Agent (and given a new theme song, 'Secret Agent Man', that became iconic).
Season 4 was supposed to start the show's transition into colour, but after completing only two episodes, McGoohan convinced the studio to cancel the series, so that he could instead produce a new series, which is at least a and maybe even an outright continuation, depending on what you choose to believe. (Those last two episodes eventually aired on their own in the UK during a broadcast break for The Prisoner, and in the US edited together into a TV movie entitled Koroshi.)Not to be confused with Secret Agent Man, a short-lived spy show that aired on UPN in 2000 that used the same theme song as the US version of Secret Agent but otherwise had no connection to the McGoohan series. (Some reference books and websites erroneously label it a remake.). Tropes:.: Drake very often has this role.: Victoria, among other unnamed third-world countries.: Lots.: In 'Not So Jolly Roger', Drake poses as a DJ at a pirate radio station on a vintage offshore anti-aircraft fort, whose broadcast activities are the cover for anti-British espionage.
Some location footage was actually shot on and around a real fort that was being used by Radio 390 note 1965-7; broadcasting on 773kHz AM, or approximtely 390 metres, including a shot of McGoohan being winched up to one of the fort's towers. Other scenes were mocked up in the studio using location photos as backdrops.: A running gag in the first season was Drake's inability to actually get the vacation he wanted.:. Drake tells people to 'Do exactly as he says' often enough for it to be noticeable. Along with 'I'm obliged' in the first series.: John Drake does not romance women, although many of the women in the series show an obvious interest in him (and he in them). There are three exceptions: an episode called 'The Black Book' in which he finds himself attracted to a female spy, and two later episodes featuring his frequent Disney co-star Susan Hampshire playing different characters, both of whom appear to successfully romance Drake.
Justified both in-universe (with Drake explaining in 'The Black Book' why he can't get involved) and with McGoohan's often-stated rationale that a man in Drake's position can't afford to have emotional ties and still expect to be effective.: Drake has a switch for it, and when he turns it on, just about anyone melts before his charming smile and suave, witty banter (which is to say it works on ordinary people or newbies to the spy game).: And who could blame them?.: M9 is a perfect example of a group.: Ocasionally happens to Drake or other secret agents. Its in the episode 'Colony Three.'
.: Dell Comics adapted the original-format Danger Man as a one-off issue of its long-running Four Color anthology series in 1961; in 1966, published 2 issues of Secret Agent, based upon the later version of the series.: Drake.: Drake is fluent in French and German.: The first two seasons were hardly happyfests, but the third was way more depressing. When the show moved to colour, which likely influenced McGoohan's decision to quit.: Drake. Always.: Drake. This trait is probably most pronounced in 'Whatever Happened to George Foster?' Where he finds out that a very powerful British businessman is paying terrorists to terrorize a South American country just because they wouldn't sell him goods at the price he wanted. Despite orders, despite being thrown out of M9 and anyone free to kill him with impunity (not least the businessman), Drake doesn't stop until he forces the businessman into a position where he has to call off the terrorists.: It is the spy genre after all.: Stated explicitly. Drake rarely carries a gun as he prefers to use his wits first and violence secondarily and usually goes to great lengths to avoid killing people, not to mention that in many of the situations he goes in undercover a gun would be very suspicious.
'I don't like guns; they're messy, and they kill people.' .
During the course of the series, he is shown directly shooting people a grand total of twice, and the second occasion was during a dream sequence.: Regularly, especially in the third season. Drake doesn't always win a clear victory and even if he does, there are rarely any 'high five' moments. Possibly epitomized by the ending of 'Colony Three'.: John Drake doesn't carry a gun and he never shoots anyone to death (we don't count a dream sequence/hallucination episode).
The only exception was in one of the early 1960-61 series episodes. He used deadly force on rare occasions thereafter and trained guns on people to make them surrender, to be sure, but he never put a bullet into another (real) person. Qualifies for this trope as Danger Man's lack of gunplay set it apart from other spy shows of the era.: Even by early 1960s standards, Danger Man had loads of smoking. Made more apparent when compared to the virtually smoke-free (at least later seasons) or even The Prisoner where cigarettes are rarely seen. Furthermore,.: In 'Colony Three', British communists are disappearing behind the Iron Curtain. Drake follows their trail to a replica of a British town used to acquaint Russian infiltrators with British ways.: Comes with doing but it tends to weigh very heavily on Drake's psyche, especially in 'The Outcast' where Drake starts out pretending to be this fellow's friend.
Drake (sardonically): 'With a friend like me, he won't need enemies.' .: Drake has quite a few. Theres a: They were all McGoohan's, and it was his idea to switch up the hats so Drake doesn't have the same one for each story.: In a meta sense.
The US version's opening credits, using the song 'Secret Agent Man', ends with the following lyric: 'They've given you a number/and taken away your name', describing the set-up for.: Children just sort of gravitate to Drake and he is very fond of hanging out and reading stories to the kids of friends or contacts.: It is often pointed out that both sides in a cold war era spy game use the same kind of dirty tricks. He sardonically notes that the double agent he's asked to pursue in 'Say It With Flowers' wasn't considered dangerous until he finally went all the way over to the Soviet side.: Drake, while being able to, first and foremost uses his razor-sharp wits and formidable manipulative skills.: McGoohan's very own, of course. The intensity of his gaze is lampshaded several times throughout the show by various characters and Drake himself (who says that an attempt to tone down the gaze is reason why he occasionally wears clunky when going undercover).: Lots and lots. The writers seemed to have fun coming up with various mundane items for him to use.: A stock plot.: Drake, of course, and some of his fellow agents.
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This article is about a 2000s TV series and should not be confused with the 1960s series, which aired in the United States under the title Secret Agent.Secret Agent ManGenreCreated byRichard RegenDirected byStarringOpening theme'Secret Agent Man' performed byComposer(s)Country of originOriginal language(s)No. Of seasons1No. Of episodes12 ProductionExecutive producer(s)Producer(s)Flody SuarezProduction location(s),CinematographyEditor(s)Joanne D'AntonioLynn LeonhardJames R. SymonsRunning time60 minutesProduction company(s)Sonnenfeld Josephson Worldwide EntertainmentDistributorReleaseOriginal networkOriginal release7 March ( 2000-03-07) –28 July 2000 ( 2000-07-28)Secret Agent Man is an American television series that aired on from 7 March to 28 July 2000. The series was created by writer Richard Regen. Contents.Premise Secret Agent Man starred as Monk, a gallivanting, who was one of a team of agents that included Holliday, played by and Davis, played.
The team reported to Brubeck, played. The frequent guest villain is the former agent Prima, played by.All the lead characters share the last names of jazz musicians, and.Production Secret Agent Man was originally scheduled to premiere on UPN in September 1999, but was pushed back to a midseason premiere in August 2000 due to the desire to give the show's producers more time to work on props and special effects. It also did not have a traditional one-hour pilot filmed, and was instead ordered to series by UPN on the strength of just a presentation reel. Only 12 episodes were produced and broadcast before the series was cancelled due to poor ratings.Theme song The series used an updated version of the 1960s hit, ', performed by, for its.
Because the original version of this song was also used as the theme song for American broadcasts of another television series, the 1960s British TV series, (primarily broadcast in the U.S. As ), there were some mistaken impressions that this series was somehow a or of the earlier program, but other than the theme song, no connections were made evident.Cast.
as Monk. as Holliday. as Davis. as Brubeck. as Prima.Episodes.
This section needs a. Please in your own words. ( September 2018)No.TitleOriginal air dateProd.code1'From Prima with Love'7 March 2000 ( 2000-'Back to School'14 March 2000 ( 2000-'WhupSumAss'21 March 2000 ( 2000-'Like Father, Like Monk'28 March 2000 ( 2000-'Supernaked'4 April 2000 ( 2000-'The Elders'26 May 2000 ( 2000-'The Face'2 June 2000 ( 2000-'Sleepers'9 June 2000 ( 2000-'Uncle S.A.M.' 7 July 2000 ( 2000-0'Fail-Safe'14 July 2000 ( 2000-1'TKO Henry'21 July 2000 ( 2000-2'Breach'28 July 2000 ( 2000-07-28)106References.
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