List of Danger Man episodes

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[edit]Series 1 (1960-1962)

Broadcast as Danger Man in the UK and US.

Airdate is for ATV London ^[1] ITV regions varied date and order.

Episode#	Prod #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original UK airdate
1-1	002	"View from the Villa"	Terry Bishop	Brian Clemens and Ralph Smart	September 11, 1960
Frank Delroy, an American banker directly responsible for a large reserve of gold held in Rome as part of the United States' NATO contributions, is murdered. Five million dollars is missing.
1-2	004	"Time to Kill"	Ralph Smart	Brian Clemens and Ian Stuart Black	September 18, 1960
Drake balks when he is ordered to kill an assassin and intends to capture him. His plans are thwarted by an interfering Swedish school teacher.
1-3	028	"Josetta"	Michael Truman	Ralph Smart	September 25, 1960
John Drake helps a blind woman trap her brother's killer.
1-4	016	"The Blue Veil"	Charles Frend	Don Inglis and Ralph Smart	October 2, 1960
John Drake is involved in one of his most colourful adventures when he flies to the Arabian desert to investigate stories of slavery and finds himself in the role of a knight errant helping a stranded showgirl.
1-5	017	"The Lovers"	Peter Graham Scott	Jo Eisinger and Doreen Montgomery	October 9, 1960
John Drake has a surprise when he receives a telephone call from an old enemy named Miguel Torres — spy, undercover agent, provocateur, freelance saboteur. But this time, Torres is on the side of authority, employed by the president of Boravia.
1-6	012	"The Girl in Pink Pyjamas"	Peter Graham Scott	Ian Stuart Black and Ralph Smart, story by Brian Clemens	October 16, 1960
A strikingly lovely blonde is found wandering in a dazed condition along a lonely road in a Balkan state and provides John Drake with a clue to the mystery surrounding the attempted assassination of the country’s president.
1-7	007	"Position of Trust"	Ralph Smart	Jo Eisinger	October 23, 1960
John Drake is shown a photograph of a girl. She is alive, but might as well be dead with her haggard looks, staring eyes, and sunken cheeks. It could have been a photograph of a worn-out, middle-aged woman, but the girl is only 21.
1-8	025	"The Lonely Chair"	Charles Frend	John Roddick and Ralph Smart	October 30, 1960
John Drake impersonates a wealthy industrialist whose daughter has been kidnapped.
1-9	018	"The Sanctuary"	Charles Frend	John Roddick and Ralph Smart	November 6, 1960
To uncover an IRA cell John Drake impersonates a prisoner who has just been released after serving a sentence for a violent bomb outrage. His deception lands him into a web of drama and danger.
1-10	009	"An Affair of State"	Peter Graham Scott	Oscar Brodny	November 13, 1960
John Drake flies to a small Caribbean state when an American economics expert, sent there to check on the country’s finances and gold reserves before America agrees to a large loan, is reported to have committed suicide.
1-11	001	"The Key"	Seth Holt	Jack Whittingham, story by Ralph Smart	November 20, 1960
Drake loses no time in getting to know Logan and his attractive Continental wife, Maria. He tells Logan that he has been ordered to contact him with instructions to encode a message for cabling to Washington.
1-12	008	"The Sisters"	Seth Holt	Jo Eisinger, story by Brian Clemens	November 27, 1960
Which girl is telling the truth? This is the problem that faces John Drake when a beautiful refugee from a mid-European country flees to England and pleads for political asylum.
1-13	024	"The Prisoner"	Terry Bishop	Ralph Smart and Robert Stewart	December 4, 1960
A U.S. Diplomat has been forced to live within the walls of his embassy for five years, denied egress by the host country. John Drake convinces a concert pianist to impersonate the diplomat, in an attempt to win his freedom.
1-14	014	"The Traitor"	Terry Bishop	John Roddick	December 11, 1960
What makes a man a traitor? John Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir, in Northern India, and to drama high up a mountain in a lonely bungalow with a renegade Englishman and his beautiful wife.
1-15	021	"Colonel Rodriguez"	Julian Aymes	Ralph Smart	December 18, 1960
The treacherous Colonel Rodriguez has arrested an innocent American journalist on charges of spying. John Drake must find a means of freeing him.
1-16	029	"The Island"	R. Pennington Richards	Brian Clemens and Ralph Smart	January 1, 1961
John Drake is transporting two assassins, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Jones, by private airplane. Messrs. Wilson and Jones end up hijacking the small plane and crashing it nearby on a small island. Drake, a beautiful heiress and Messrs. Wilson and Jones are the only survivors. Wilson and Jones discover the sole inhabitant on the island, a recluse called Kane, before Drake can and they convince Kane that Drake is really the prisoner.
1-17	003	"Find and Return"	Seth Holt	Jo Eisinger	January 8, 1961
John Drake sets out to find a beautiful girl who is wanted for espionage, possibly high treason. It means a trip to the Middle East and into a web of mystery in which death and danger stalk together.
1-18	034	"The Girl Who Liked GI's"	Michael Truman	Marc Brandel and Ralph Smart	January 15, 1961
Munich, Drake investigates the murder of a GI and makes a date with his German girlfriend. Is she an innocent or a spy?
1-19	031	"Name, Date and Place"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart and John Roddick	January 22, 1961
Does a "Murder Incorporated" organisation exist? Drake arranges his own murder.
1-20	037	"Vacation"	Patrick McGoohan	Ralph Smart	January 29, 1961
Travelling to Nice, Drake sits next to a man he recognises as an assassin. Drake takes his place, but who is the victim?
1-21	030	"The Conspirators"	Michael Truman	Ralph Smart and John Roddick	February 5, 1961
Drake is sent to protect the wife of a murdered diplomat who is writing a book exposing the truth.
1-22	033	"The Honeymooners"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart and Lewis Davidson	April 2, 1961
A groom accused of murder and awaiting execution in The Far East is a pawn in a power struggle between the country's Prime Minister and Defence Minister. All is not what it seems.
1-23	036	"The Gallows Tree"	Michael Truman	Ralph Smart and Marc Brandel	April 9, 1961
In Scotland, a stolen car is recovered bearing the fingerprints of long dead masterspy. Is he still alive and working?
1-24	022	"The Relaxed Informer"	Anthony Bushell	Ralph Smart and Robert Stewart	April 16, 1961
Bavaria, Drake steals the belongings of an enemy courier leading to an interpreter and a spy ring posing as a religious sect.
1-25	020	"The Brothers"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart	April 23, 1961
A plane crashes off the coast of Sicily. The two airmen get safely to shore, with their mail bags and a diplomatic satchel — only to be shot and robbed by bandits.
1-26	006	"The Journey Ends Halfway"	Clive Donner	Ian Stuart Black	April 30, 1961
John Drake finds himself involved in Oriental intrigue and adventure when, in the guise of a Czech engineer, he unravels the mystery of the disappearance of a distinguished doctor who has been trying to escape from Communist China.
1-27	011	"Bury the Dead"	Clive Donner	Ralph Smart, story by Brian Clemens	May 7, 1961
A ticket for the opera in Palermo, Sicily, whirls John Drake into the centre of a gun-running intrigue with a beautiful girl as his companion.
1-28	013	"Sabotage"	Peter Graham Scott	Michael Pertwee and Ian Stuart Black	May 14, 1961
A transport plane is on its way from Singapore to New Guinea, in full radio contact with its base. Then silence. An explosion sends the plane to its doom and its pilot, Paul Jason, to his death.
1-29	027	"The Contessa"	Terry Bishop	John Roddick and Ralph Smart	May 21, 1961
A longshoreman's accident leads to the discovery of a major drug smuggling operation.
1-30	032	"The Leak"	Anthony Bushell	Ralph Smart and Brian Clemens	May 28, 1961
Workers at a North African nuclear plant are mysteriously becoming ill.
1-31	038	"The Trap"	R. Pennington Richards	Ralph Smart and John Roddick	June 4, 1961
A cipher clerk disappears from the American embassy in London.
1-32	039	"The Actor"	Michael Truman	Marc Brandel	June 11, 1961
A Hong Kong radio station is embedding secrets in its broadcasts.
1-33	035	"Hired Assassin"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart and John Roddick	June 18, 1961
Drake infiltrates a terrorist group planning to kill President Valesco.
1-34	019	"The Deputy Coyannis Story"	Peter Graham Scott	Jo Eisinger	December 16, 1961
Love and politics make an unholy alliance, as John Drake finds out when sent to a Balkan country to discover what has happened to rehabilitation money which does not seem to have been put to its intended uses.
1-35	023	"Find and Destroy"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart and John Roddick	December 23, 1961
A miniature submarine is beached on the coast of South America. Drake has to destroy it before enemy agents can discover its secrets.
1-36	005	"Under the Lake"	Seth Holt	Jack Whittingham	December 30, 1961
John Drake has the pleasant task of getting to know a very attractive girl in the course of tracking down the mystery of one of the most fantastic counterfeit plots of all time.
1-37	015	"The Nurse"	Peter Graham Scott	Ralph Smart and Brian Clemens	January 6, 1962
A dramatic meeting with a pretty Scots nurse in the heart of the Arabian Desert plunges John Drake into one of most perilous adventures of his career and enables him to help the girl save a dynasty.
1-38	026	"Dead Man Walks"	Charles Frend	Ralph Smart and Brian Clemens	January 13, 1962
All the scientists researching bacterial warfare are dead. A failed crop in Kashmir leads Drake to India in the belief one may still be alive.
1-39	010	"Deadline"	Peter Graham Scott	Jo Eisinger, story by Ian Stuart Black	January 20, 1962
John Drake plunges into the African jungle to find an attractive native woman who can tell him the truth about a murder that has sparked off a wave of terrorism which is likely to lead to a mass uprising.

[edit]Series 2 (1964-1965)

Series 2 and 3 were broadcast as Danger Man in the UK and Secret Agent in the US. Airdate is for ATV Midlands,^[2]. ITV^[1] regions varied date and order.

Episode#	Prod #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate UK
2-1	048	"Yesterday's Enemies"	Charles Crichton	Donald Jonson	October 13, 1964
Secrets are going astray in Beirut. Has an former British agent set up his own spy ring?
2-2	043	"The Professionals"	Michael Truman	Wilfred Greatorex and Louis Marks	October 20, 1964
An M9 agent is missing. Drake goes undercover in Prague to find him and is targeted by a Czech spy and his femme fatale.
2-3	049	"Colony Three"	Don Chaffey	Donald Jonson	October 27, 1964
British communists are disappearing behind the iron curtain. Drake follows their trail.
2-4	047	"The Galloping Major"	Peter Maxwell	David Stone	November 3, 1964
Posing as Major Sullivan, Drake is sent to protect a new African government from election-time deceit and violence. Dodging an industrialist's predatory wife (Jill Melford), Drake discovers the real deceit, and his last-minute plot makes the election more honest than anyone else intended.
2-5	042	"Fair Exchange"	Charles Crichton	Wilfred Greatorex and Marc Brandel	November 10, 1964
British agent Elizabeth Lanzig (Lela Goldoni) vows revenge on the East German spymaster who tortured her. Colleague John Drake is ordered to stop her, and finally succeeds by kidnapping the son of a rival spymaster (Andre van Gyseghem) and exchanging him for her.
2-6	040	"Fish on the Hook"	Robert Day	John Roddick and Michael Pertwee	November 17, 1964
The name "Fish" hides the identity of the organiser of a complex espionage system who is in danger of being exposed unless Drake is successful in his hazardous mission to the Middle East.
2-7	044	"The Colonel's Daughter"	Philip Leacock	David Weir	November 24, 1964
"In India's sunny clime," a retired colonel ekes out his pension by collecting and selling butterfly specimens. When the colonel's assistant dies mysteriously, Drake is sent to investigate, and ends up getting help from a local policeman, whose own investigation Drake pursues. Finally, both trails entwine in a complexity that makes this ep worth a second viewing.
2-8	051	"The Battle of the Cameras"	Don Chaffey	Philip Broadley	December 1, 1964
On the French Riviera, John Drake poses as playboy gambler Peter Simons to gain the confidence of crafty spy czar Mr. Kent and his accomplices, the beautiful Martine and karate master Genicot. Betrayed by an overeager assistant, Drake is photographed and identified, but he feigns gullible drunkenness and turns a trap around on his enemies.
2-9	052	"No Marks for Servility"	Don Chaffey	Ralph Smart	December 8, 1964
International extortionist Gregori Benares marries a lovely young Englishwoman and takes her to Rome; they stay in a villa where the butler is--John Drake. An ally of the shy wife and implacable enemy of the sadistic Benares, Drake exposes the man's kidnapping plot. McGoohan masterfully exploits the dramatic ambiguities in this role, which will also interest observers of The Prisoner's butler.
2-10	050	"A Man to be Trusted"	Peter Maxwell	Raymond Bowers	December 15, 1964
As a Scotland Yard detective, Drake arrives in the West Indies to investigate a murder and test the reliability of the local contact for British intelligence--a flamboyant Colonel Mora, played to perfection by Harvey Ashby. After close calls with women and voodoo cults, Drake sorts the evil from the good, and the colonel's flamboyance reveals an uxorious core.
2-11	041	"Don't Nail Him Yet"	Michael Truman	Philip Broadley	December 22, 1964
British intelligence suspects that Rawson is selling secrets. Drake poses as a wimpy schoolteacher picked on by teenagers, wins Rawson's friendship, and trails him even to a soccer game, but resists simply pulling Rawson in until he can prove the treason. Following the man to a bookstore, Drake sees his quarry bolt, but discovers a lovely accomplice (Sheila Allen) and a sinister spymaster.
2-12	054	"A Date with Doris"	Quentin Lawrence	Philip Broadley	December 29, 1964
In a revolutionary Latin American state, Drake's friend Peter is framed for the murder of the General's mistress. Extracting the wounded Peter is a job for Drake, under cover as a journalist; and he finds an unlikely ally. When the General himself joins the chase, the escape becomes a matter of hairbreadth timing. Merrow and Radd and superb.
2-13	046	"That's Two of Us Sorry"	Quentin Lawrence	Jan Read	January 5, 1965
Drake is sent to a remote Scottish island to investigate a set of fingerprints that belong to a spy who was long thought dead. The results surprise (and chagrin) everyone. A sardonic comment on the intelligence business.
2-14	055	"Such Men Are Dangerous"	Don Chaffey	Ralph Smart	January 12, 1965
Drake takes the place of an ex-convict recruited as a terrorist and sent to an elegant school for assassins. He uncovers an ultra-right organization that believes its mission is to eliminate undesirable world leaders.
2-15	056	"Whatever Happened to George Foster"	Don Chaffey	David Stone	January 19, 1965
By accident Drake discovers that a new Latin-American republic is being sabotaged by a British industrialist for his own ends. Inexorably, Drake hunts down the industrialist's shady past and trades it for the small nation's autonomy.
2-16	057	"A Room in the Basement"	Don Chaffey	Ralph Smart	February 2, 1965
Drake's old friend Keith is kidnapped by the opposition and held in a slavic embassy in Geneva. Called into unofficial action by Keith's wife (Jane Merrow), Drake enlists the help of two friends and Merrow herself. She poses as a rich hysteric and he as her doctor; the four engineer a daring rooftop-to-basement rescue.
2-17	058	"The Affair at Castelevara"	Quentin Lawrence	James Foster	February 9, 1965
Drake is sent to a Latin American country where an heroic old revolutionary is scheduled for execution. The Americans have a plan to save him, but Drake has a better idea, one that involves a documentary film and a chase through a theatre that sports a Rock Hudson poster. (Don't miss Aubrey Morris as the hotel's lugubrious resident spy).
2-18	053	"The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove"	Don Chaffey	David Stone	February 16, 1965
Speeding on his way to the airport, Drake swerves to avoid a couple of young boys chasing a ball and loses control of his car. The rest of this story is supplied by Drake's subconscious: A duel of wits in which the hobo he passed on the road right before his accident morphs into the suave, sinister casino owner Mr. Alexander, whose unsavory deeds range from attempting to blackmail Drake to passing secrets via microdots on gambling chits.
2-19	045	"It's Up to the Lady"	Michael Truman	Philip Broadley	February 23, 1965
Charles Glover, an idealistic Briton, flees eastward, and Drake follows Glover's wife Paula to a Greek village, where the opposition, in the person of one Nicos, is determined to bag the couple. Drake must convince the wife to return with her husband to England, where he is told the man will receive amnesty.
2-20	059	"Have a Glass of Wine"	Peter Maxwell	David Stone	March 2, 1965
A delicious spoof of France, and a chase across its wine country--mostly by night. Drake follows a blackmailed Englishwoman to France where her military secrets are passed to a Russian agent posing as a French wine merchant. They are intercepted by a local lady spy who believes she has outwitted both, until Drake turns the tables--and brings his own bottle. A send-up of French justice, with George Benson as a proto-Clouseau.
2-21	060	"The Mirror's New"	Michael Truman	Philip Broadley	March 9, 1965
A British diplomat in Paris goes missing for a day, and claims he can't remember it. Investigating, Drake improvises-- first as a German-Irish encyclopaedia salesman (complete with astrakhan cap) and later as the diplomat's gambling buddy. Tortured by two men (one of them Frank Maher, McGoohan's own stunt double), Drake finds the diplomat's triple life has been financed by a dead man.
2-22	061	"Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet"	Don Chaffey	Malcolm Hulke	March 16, 1965
Two English scientists, the Brooks, disappear from a beach. Pursuing them to the West Indies, Drake finds a disputed dead man, hears a tale of zombie mineworkers, and meets Russian agent Nicola Tarasova (Moira Redmond). Both spies find themselves following the trail of Dessiles, a Russian atomic scientist wooed by an African government. Dessile's mine is the site of a narrow escape for Drake, along with temporary-ally Tarasova and the missing Brooks couple.

[edit]Series 3 (1965-1966)

Some books list episodes 3-1 to 3-10 as part of series 2 due to change of studio from 3-11. Airdates are again as for ATV Midlands.

Episode#	Prod #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate UK
3-01	067	"The Black Book"	Michael Truman	Philip Broadley	September 30, 1965
A British Embassy official is being blackmailed and Drake is sent to expose the blackmailers and eliminate their hold over the official. The trail leads to a black book of western blackmail targets.
3-02	066	"A Very Dangerous Game"	Don Chaffey	Ralph Smart and David Stone	October 7, 1965
Drake takes the place of a defector in a plan to infiltrate Chinese Intelligence.
3-03	065	"Sting in the Tail"	Peter Yates	Philip Broadley	October 14, 1965
Drake provokes the jealously of a political assassin, wanted by the Parisian police, to leave the safety of Beirut.
3-04	062	"You Are Not in Any Trouble, Are You?"	Don Chaffey	Philip Broadley	October 21, 1965
In order to infiltrate a murder organisation Drake commissions his own murder.
3-05	070	"Loyalty Always Pays"	Peter Yates	David Stone	October 28, 1965
The last message from an M9 agent in Africa reveals that China is about to gain a foothold in a country where Britain has financial interests. Drake is sent to discredit the Chinese.
3-06	064	"The Mercenaries"	Don Chaffey	Ralph Smart	November 4, 1965
Drake has the job, following a murdered M9 agent, of infiltrating a group of mercenaries that are planning to depose an African leader.
3-07	068	"Judgement Day"	Don Chaffey	Donald Jonson story by Michael J. Bird	November 11, 1965
Drake sent to the Middle East to bring back a German scientist accused of war crimes has to defend him against Israeli agents wanting their own brand of justice.
3-08	063	"The Outcast"	Michael Truman	Donald Jonson	November 18, 1965
When a Wren is murdered carrying secret papers and her missing boyfriend is the chief suspect, Drake follows and befriends him in search of the truth.
3-09	069	"English Lady Takes Lodgers"	Michael Truman	David Stone	November 25, 1965
Drake investigates an agency in Lisbon dealing in stolen secrets and comes across a boarding house landlady dealing in stolen passports.
3-10	071	"Are You Going to be More Permanent?"	Don Chaffey	Philip Broadley	December 2, 1965
When M9 controllers mysteriously disappear in Geneva and a traitor is identified as one of three persons, Drake takes up the position of the new controller.
3-11	072	"To Our Best Friend"	Patrick McGoohan	Ralph Smart	December 9, 1965
Drake finds himself assigned to find out if a colleague is a double agent. Unfortunately for him, that colleague is also his best friend.
3-12	073	"The Man on the Beach"	Peter Yates	Philip Broadley	December 16, 1965
Drake is sent to Jamaica to identify a M9 double agent operating from a luxury hotel but who spends his time drinking and lying on the beach much to his superiors' annoyance.
3-13	075	"Say It with Flowers"	Peter Yates	Jacques Gillies	December 23, 1965
When money is drawn from the account of a dead freelance agent, Drake is sent to the clinic in Switzerland where the man had died three months previously.
3-14	074	"The Man Who Wouldn't Talk"	Michael Truman	Donald Jonson and Ralph Smart	December 30, 1965
When the M9 regional controller is captured in Bulgaria, Drake must effect a rescue before he talks under torture.
3-15	076	"Someone is Liable to Get Hurt"	Michael Truman	Philip Broadley	January 6, 1966
A Caribbean country's elections are threatened by an impending arms deal, but the local M9 agent has disappeared. Drake is sent to investigate.
3-16	077	"Dangerous Secret"	Stuart Burge	Ralph Smart and Donald Jonson	January 13, 1966
A leading pacifist scientist creates a lethal virus and not trusting the government flees to France pursued by Drake and other interested parties wanting the virus.
3-17	078	"I Can Only Offer You Sherry"	George Pollock	Ralph Smart	January 20, 1966
A leak from a British embassy in the middle east leads Drake to an unassuming secretary and, posing as a journalist, he befriends her.
3-18	079	"The Hunting Party"	Pat Jackson	Philip Broadley	January 27, 1966
Drake poses as a butler to a man, and his domineering wealthy wife, suspected of leaking information to the newspapers. But how does he do it?
3-19	080	"Two Birds with One Bullet"	Peter Yates	Jesse Lasky and Pat Silver	March 10, 1966
At a forthcoming Caribbean election in a British colony, M9 learn one of the parties plan to kill their own candidate to discredit the British. Drake has to protect the potential victim.
3-20	081	"I am Afraid You Have the Wrong Number"	George Pollock	Ralph Smart	March 17, 1966
A British spymaster is kidnapped by enemy counterintelligence agents in Geneva. Drake has to find him and spring him before he talks and betrays the ring he has created in the enemy's embassy.
3-21	082	"The Man With the Foot"	Jeremy Summers	Raymond Bowers	March 24, 1966
Drake is sent on extended holiday when his cover is blown but he is pursued by another agent.
3-22	083	"The Paper Chase"	Patrick McGoohan	Philip Broadley and Ralph Smart	March 31, 1966
Confidential papers are stolen from an embassy official in Rome. Drake is sent to recover them.
3-23	084	"Not So Jolly Roger"	Don Chaffey	Tony Williamson	April 7, 1966
A wartime offshore sea fort being used as a pirate radio station is transmitting secrets to an enemy submarine. One agent has already been murdered on the fort. Drake has to find out how the transmissions are being done and find the culprit amongst the crew.

[edit]Series 4 (1968)

Airdates are for ATV Midlands. ATV London broadcast on 19 February and 26 February 1967 respectively.

Episode#	Prod #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate UK
4-1	085	"Koroshi"	Michael Truman	Norman Hudis	January 5, 1968
An M9 agent is murdered in Tokyo while transmitting a message about the impending assassination of a United Nations mediator. Drake is assigned to protect the official.
4-2	086	"Shinda Shima"	Peter Yates	Norman Hudis	January 12, 1968
Assigned to take the place of an electronics expert to infiltrate a Japanese murder brotherhood, Drake follows a trail to Shinda Shima ('the murdered island').

These two episodes, which mark the series' transition into colour production, were broadcast in the US as the European cinema movie version, Koroshi. The show's abrupt cancellation, to make way for production and broadcast of star Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner, resulted in these final two shows airing in the UK early in 1968, when they were broadcast as fill-in episodes for The Prisoner which had fallen behind the scheduled UK transmission dates, replacing advertised Prisoner episodes that were not yet ready for broadcast. In fact they were originally intended to be broadcast after the finale of The Prisoner in the UK. Some parts of the UK, as well as the US, never saw the episodes in their original form until their DVD release.