My name is Drake... John Drake.
Original title
Danger Man
Released
9/11/1960
Origin country
GB
Genre
Action & Adventure, Drama
Production companies
ITC Entertainment
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
86
Danger Man 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. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
John Drake is assigned to investigate the murder of a banker, Frank Delroy. The trail leads Drake to the home of Delroy's lady friend, a small seaside resort (Portmeirion) where he recovers five million dollars and solves the murder of Delroy.
John Drake flies to Paris, where his assignment is to find an international killer. He refuses to assassinate the man, but undertakes to retrieve him. The task becomes more difficult when Drake finds himself handcuffed to a young woman, Lisa Orin.
A blind young woman, Josetta, is the only one who can identify her brother's killer. John Drake has the task of helping her to find and identify the killer.
John Drake flies to the Arabian desert to investigate stories of slavery and finds himself befriending a Muslim lad and helping a stranded showgirl who believes Drake to be a slave broker.
At the request of an old enemy, Drake takes charge of security as the President of Boravia and his wife visit London.
When a dazed girl is found wandering along a country lane, dressed only in her pajamas, Drake discovers a plot to assassinate a Balkan President.
When Drake is shown a photograph of a young girl who is the victim of drugs, he sets out for the Middle East to break up the ring supplying opium. He is aided by an American agent, Sandi Lewis. Together they trace the source of the drugs, with the help of a courageous little man.
When the daughter of a wealthy industrialist is kidnapped, Drake impersonates her crippled father in an attempt to save her without having to hand over crucial designs.
John Drake has to impersonate a prisoner who has just been released after serving a sentence for bombings. His assignment is to infiltrate a group of IRA commandos.
Drake flies to a small Caribbean State to investigate the apparent suicide of an American economics expert, he uncovers a plot to obtain large sums of money, and in return he nearly loses his life.
When someone is leaking information from the American Embassy in Vienna, Drake is called in to investigate when the finger of guilt points to the Ambassador.
When a young, beautiful refugee pleads for political asylum, Drake is called in to investigate by his superior, Hardy. When the girl's sister arrives, Drake has a double problem to solve.
Drake's assignment is to find a double for James Carpenter, an American who is confined to the US Embassy in a Caribbean city. Finding the double is only half of the problem. Substituting him under the eyes of the police is the other.
Drake travels to Kashmir in Northern India to seek out Noel Goddard, a former executive in the Indian Government, now a traitor. On identifying Drake, Goddard is given the message: 'John Drake. NATO agent. Eliminate.'
John Drake flies to the Caribbean to aid an American journalist who had been arrested on a spy charge, but before he can effect a rescue is accused of the murder of a young nightclub singer.
John Drake is flying back to the mainland with two prisoners, when his plane crashes in the sea, near a tiny island. On reaching the island Drake finds himself a wanted man as the island's hermit owner believes Drake is an escaped prisoner.
Hardy assigns Drake to fly to the Middle East to find Vanessa Stewart, a beautiful girl wanted for espionage. Posing as a Baltic agent, Drake persuades her to accompany him before the British find her. A subplot comments drily on the ethics of espionage.
Drake is assigned to investigate the murder of a young G.I. in Munich. He was last seen in the company of a young German girl, Vicki. Was she involved in the plot? Drake, posing as an American soldier, must find the answer.
When several prominent people are killed, there appears to be no connection. But John Drake's investigations uncover a murder ring, which he hires to kill himself.
While vacationing on the Riviera, John Drake recognises a professional assassin. He succeeds in replacing the killer and undertakes an assignment working in the dark, as he has no idea who his victim is.
John Drake's assignment takes him to a small island off the coast of Brittany. He must protect Lady Lindsay, widow of a British diplomat, and her two young sons, from two killers.
When a Chinese businessman is murdered, a young couple on honeymoon become the prime suspects. John Drake flies out to the Far East to assist them, and finds himself in a dangerous situation.
John Drake travels to the Scottish Highlands when the fingerprints of a stolen car belong to a master spy believed to have been killed ten years earlier.
Drake's latest case is to unravel a security leak. The suspect is Ruth Mitchell, an interpreter; but as Drake later discovers, the girl has been used without her knowledge.
A plane crashes off the coast of Sicily and a diplomatic satchel is taken by mountain bandits. John Drake's task is to recover the stolen property, for which he enlists the aid of one bandit's girlfriend.
Drake travels to China to investigate the disappearance of an eminent doctor who had been trying to escape the Communist regime.
NATO agent Tony Costello is killed in a car crash while investigating a case of gun running. John Drake flies to Sicily to investigate and finds Costello's girl friend who is convinced it was murder. Before the case is solved, Drake discovers that you can bury the dead more than once.
When Paul Jason of Jason's Airlines is killed and several of his planes crash, John Drake assumes the identity of a hard drinking pilot to investigate the crash. Drake discovers a case of smuggling and finds himself in a tricky situation.
When several workers at an atomic energy plant in North Africa fall ill, a leakage is suspected. Drake flies out to investigate and is aided by a beautiful European doctor, but when the next victim has no connection with the plant, Drake discovers a fiendish plot.
Drake joins forces with a European doctor when workers at an African nuclear power plant fall ill.
Drake travels to Venice to investigate the case of Beth Warren, a cipher expert at the American Embassy in London. She disappeared form her job, and rushed to Venice to be with her boyfriend when his brother way dying. But Drake discovers she is being used for the knowledge she has.
Drake travels to Hong Kong to investigate the murder of a sound technician working for a radio station. He uncovers a plot where the secret information is being sent out in code over the air, transmitted as part of the station's English lessons.
Drake poses as a professional assassin in an attempt to prevent the assassination of a South American President. He joins a revolutionary group who are planning to kill the President.
John Drake travels to a Balkan country to investigate the misappropriation of funds by a Minister. Drake uncovers the plot. Involving love, politics and revenge.
A miniature submarine is wrecked off the coast of a South American country. John Drake's assignment from British Intelligence is to blow her up. Disguised as a fisherman, Drake races against time to find the submarine before the agents of a foreign power can.
When twenty five million dollars in forged currency floods the European capitals, John Drake is assigned by U.S. Intelligence to trace the source. The trail leads to an ex-Nazi General staying at a lake-side hotel in the mountains. Drake faces death before he can solve the case and uncover the secret of the lake.
Drake travels to the Arabian Desert to rescue the American Consul and his family from terrorists who have assassinated the King. On arrival Drake finds he has additional problems trying to protect a pretty Scots nurse and the baby in her care - the future king.
Hardy assigns Drake to investigate when the entire research team working in tropical diseases is killed by mysterious accidents. Drake travels to India, and uncovers clues that one of the scientists may be alive.
When a wave of terrorism in the African jungle is likely to lead to a mass uprising, The Danger Man takes on the disguise of a 'gun-runner' in an attempt to penetrate the extremist organisation behind it.
Drake travels to Beirut to untangle a web of Middle Eastern espionage
Drake is targeted by a Czech spymaster who uses a beautiful young woman to ensnare his enemies.
Posing as a clerk, Drake infiltrates a strange spy school in this very 'prisoneresque' episode of Danger Man.
Sent to Africa to monitor an election, Drake discovers a danger far more devious than ballot-stuffing.
John Drake must follow an avenging agent, bent on murderous revenge.
In Egypt, Drake must uncover the identity of, and save, the mastermind behind the Controller - or the entire Middle Eastern British spy network will be compromised.
The death of a butterfly collector's assistant in India opens an unlikely investigation.
Agent John Drake becomes a gambler in the South of France to infiltrate the mysterious world of international secrets for sale.
In a Roman villa, Drake becomes an unwilling manservant to an unscrupulous extortionist.
Drake is sent to the Caribbean to investigate a murder and see if the local intelligence contact can be relied on.
Drake poses as a put-upon schoolteacher to win the confidence of a suspected spy.
Drake flies into Havana using the cover of a journalist, there to interview one of the heros of the revolution, Joaquin Paratore. His real purpose is to rescue another agent posing as a journalist (Miller) who has been framed for the murder of a famous actress. Miller had taken up with the actress when he found out she was Paratore's mistress and could provide useful information. After being wounded by the police and becoming the object of a manhunt, Miller relies on Drake to get him out with the help of ""Doris""
Fingerprints left at the scene of a robbery in Scotland appear to belong to an agent whose been dead twenty years.
Posing as an ex-con, Drake is recruited by an ultra-right wing organisation that trains assassins to eliminate world leaders.
Drake must stop a wealthy British industrialist who is subverting a small nation to his own ends.
Embassy walls and diplomatic immunity hide the kidnapped colleague of agent John Drake. Drake comes to the rescue when the man's wife approaches him for help.
Drake and his American counterparts have competing plans to prevent the execution of a former Central American Revolutionary.
After a car wreck, Drake finds himself enmeshed in a strange plot surrounding a casino.
Drake follows a couple on the run to Greece to prevent them from defecting.
In France's wine country, Drake, a Russian agent and a local spy compete for control of a woman bearing military secrets.
A British diplomat in Paris goes missing for a day, but can't seem to remember what happened.
Drake trails two scientists to the West Indies.
To topple an Italian murder-for-hire ring, Drake puts out a hit on himself.
Drake goes undercover to discover who is blackmailing a general's brother.
Disguised as a music teacher, Drake infiltrates a Chinese spy ring in Hong Kong.
Drake tries to get at an assassin by tailing the killer's mistress.
Investigating a security link in Spain, Drake finds himself enmeshed in a murderous scheme.
Did an African defense minister strike a secret deal with the Chinese?
Drake interferes in a plot to take over an African republic.
Drake finds himself at the mercy of a band of Israeli renegades.
Was the murdered girlfriend of a missing sailor selling coded secrets?
Who is responsible for the disappearance of agents in Vienna?
Drake heads to Baghdad to clear the name of a spy suspected of leaking secrets.
A murdered contact complicates Drake's mission in Jamaica.
In Switzerland Drake must determine if an enemy agent is really dead.
Drake must free a captured British spymaster before he sellls his secrets.
A mysterious woman, an ancient prison cell and a gun-runner - a recipe for disaster.
Drake must clean up after the government bungles an attempt to silence a young scientist.
Drake investigates an unlikely spy.
A security leak points to a wealthy lord.
A political party plans to assassinate their own candidate.
Drake pursues a rogue agent.
Drake drives to Spain for a well-earned holiday. But instead of sun and relaxation, he is greeted by miserable weather and a determined enemy agent.
Secret documents fall into the wrong hands.
Drake works as a disc jockey at a pirate radio station.
A young Japanese woman dies by inhaling gas from an artificial flower before she can report the existence of a Japanese death cult to her British contact. Drake infiltrates the cult as a journalist reporting on a floral festival.
Drake infiltrates the killers' headquarters by taking the place of a British electronics expert hired by the Sect.
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