Danger Man/Prisoner
The Patrick McGoohan - DANGER MAN series (hour AND half-hour episodes)
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- StarsPatrick McGoohanRichard WattisLionel MurtonJohn Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element which threatened world peace.Other then THE PRISONER, This - the hour-long series (and the half-hours too!), are my all time favourite television series. Thanks, Mr. McGoohan!
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsPatrick McGoohanJane MerrowRonald RaddA glamorous actress is murdered and an M9 agent, whose cover has been discovered, is framed for her murder. Drake task is to get him out of jail and off the island using a submarine code-named Doris.
- DirectorPeter MaxwellStarsPatrick McGoohanHarvey AshbyPatricia DonahueTwo M9 agents have been tortured and murdered on a Caribbean island, and Drake's sent to find out who killed them and to determine how much information they divulged before dying.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanJane MerrowWilliam LucasTo save a friend with sensitive information who is being held in the Romanian embassy in Geneva, Drake must break into the embassy, in defiance of the British ambassador, retrieve his friend, and avoid an international incident.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanYvonne FurneauxPeter ArneDrake impersonates a low-level clerk who was going to work for the Chinese upon arriving in Singapore, where he was to teach Singaporeans English culture
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsPatrick McGoohanPatrick WymarkJohn Le MesurierJohn Drake visits the tiny nation of San Pablo to investigate an apparent suicide. The victim, Winfield, was a US treasury representative with a reputation for spending lavishly on women and gambling. That reputation is debunked by, non other than, Winfield's wife, who also informs Drake that Winfield made mention of a big discovery just before disappearing. Drake is able to prove that Winfield was murdered and that the Minister of Police was complicit in his death. He takes his case to the Minister of Finance, only to discover that he too cannot be trusted.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanSusan HampshireMaxwell ShawAn M9 controller in Geneva vanishes and is replaced. The replacement also disappears so Drake is assigned to fill in and discover which of the controller's three contacts is a traitor.
- DirectorJulian AmyesStarsPatrick McGoohanNoel WillmanMaxine AudleyColonel Rodriguez, the Chief of Police on an island nation, takes an American journalist into custody as a scapegoat for his country's problems. The journalist's wife is contacted about a letter that could incriminate Rodriguez and release her husband. John Drake sets out to get the evidence, but after several setbacks, he must bluff his way into securing the journalist's freedom.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanGlyn OwenNiall MacGinnisDrake takes the place of a defector and goes behind the iron curtain to find out what is happening when foreign agents reach England. When he gets there he finds a replica English village, which is a school where foreign agents are taught to 'be British'. Actual British subjects, such as Drake, are employed to teach the agents the finer points of the British way of life. Drake sets out to disrupt their education and stop the supply of agents from reaching England.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsPatrick McGoohanMaureen ConnellHoward Marion-CrawfordBrett is known to be giving away British industrial secrets. When Drake confronts him, he discovers things are a lot more complicated and that Brett's not the only person being investigated.
- 1964–19671hTV-PG8.2 (99)TV EpisodeDirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanSusan HampshireAndre Van GyseghemDrake 's sent to Rome to investigate the death of an agent who'd been sent to look into a murder -for-hire. To find the killers, Drake sets a trap, and hires the organisation, to kill someone; 'John Drake '.
- DirectorStuart BurgeStarsPatrick McGoohanElizabeth ShepherdLyndon BrookTwo children end up in hospital after they stumble into a government germ warfare research unit. This troubles the chief scientist's conscience and he flees to France. Drake is sent to bring him back to England.
- DirectorMichael TrumanStarsPatrick McGoohanJohn FraserSheila AllenAn agent is selling secrets to a foreign government. How he is doing this is unclear so Drake is brought in to find out, which he does by befriending him as a bumbling teacher on stress leave.
- DirectorMichael TrumanStarsPatrick McGoohanGabriella LicudiRobert UrquhartAn unknown spy ring's selling stolen secrets in Portugal. Drake's sent in as an indigent writer. He makes contact with the wife of a smuggler who disappeared, and who's believed to be involved in the spy ring.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsPatrick McGoohanLelia GoldoniJames MaxwellIn a poignant reminder that agents are human and that they often take terrible punishment when caught, Drake tries to stop a former M9 colleague from extracting revenge on her former East German captor, who mercilessly tortured her.
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsPatrick McGoohanMoira ListerDonald PleasenceThe British government are after a woman named Vanessa, wanted for alleged espionage. John Drake visits the foreign country where she is staying with friends and works out a plan to infiltrate her villa. However, his task becomes more difficult when he discovers that another agent working for the opposite side is also after Vanessa.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsPatrick McGoohanDawn AddamsZena MarshallM9 receives a mayday signal from an agent in an Arab country. He has been compromised and must get out. The agent is also the contact for a local spy called the Fish. Drake is sent undercover to bring the Fish out.
- DirectorPeter MaxwellStarsPatrick McGoohanAnn LynnWarren MitchellDrake follows a young lady, who has been selling secrets, to France where he confronts her with what he knows. Kathleen is being blackmailed and her role is to take the information to France. She offers to help Drake find who employs her.
- 1964–196752mTV-PG7.9 (77)TV EpisodeDirectorGeorge PollockStarsPatrick McGoohanPaul EddingtonJeanne MoodyWhen an agent's death is faked in Geneva, Drake must find and retrieve him while avoiding the authorities finding proof that he or the missing agent are spies.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsPatrick McGoohanWendy CraigAnthony NewlandsIn a Muslim country, Drake must investigate a British secretary who's been giving sensitive information to a mysterious local man who's seduced her, but now holds her in check by lies and intimidation.
- DirectorMichael TrumanStarsPatrick McGoohanSylvia SymsRobert UrquhartA government officer's defected, and M9 wants him back, and Drake's to try and get him.
- DirectorMichael TrumanStarsPatrick McGoohanKenneth HaighJulia ArnallA foreign senator is murdered in the presence of his blind relative, Josetta. Rioting ensues due to a rumor the American government was behind the killing, and NATO agent John Drake's sent in. He quickly identifies the murderer with clues provided by Josetta. However, in order to get more positive proof, he needs the criminal to make an incriminating move. Drake concocts a plan to make the assassin believe Josetta can see, in order to weaken his confidence and trick him into making a mistake.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanAlexandra StewartJohn WoodvineAt an airport waiting to return home, Drake recurves a garbled message; he's diverted to pick up a doctor, and bring him back to London. However, the man's very nervous as somebody tried to kill him. Drake realises there's something the doctor's he wants to keep hidden.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsPatrick McGoohanCyril RaymondRichard WattisDrake investigates a rash of killings, all linked by the way in which the victims were killed. He suspects an organization specializing in murders is behind the deaths and makes contact with them. Following their instructions, he provides the name, date, and place of an imaginary "victim". Drake then takes one further step in hopes of snaring the criminals - he poses as the intended target.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanMervyn JohnsFrancesca AnnisAn international financier has come to the notice of M9, as he is believed to be an extortionist and murderer. When some important people are found dead, Drake goes undercover as a butler at the financier's rented villa in Rome.