Before The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan was Danger Man. Created by Ralph Smart, it has been described as Bond without the guns or the girls, but Drake certainly had the gadgets before the Bond.
Patrick McGoohan is John Drake, aka Danger Man. Set in the deadly world of international espionage and intrigue, Drake is an agent who jousts with danger before a backdrop of diverse global locations. He is a man who takes calculated risks, but dedicated to his ideals. Aided with unique gadgets and an ingenious mind, Drake does not simply attract danger - he thrives on it.
The first series of DANGER MAN propelled Patrick McGoohan to international stardom, and proved so popular, ITC brought back John Drake 4 years later in a new extended 50 minute format. This collector's 13 DVD set includes all 47 DANGER MAN adventures comprising the 50-minute series, remastered, complete & uncut for the first time. With special features including exclusive audio commentaries, interviews, archive footage, the rarely seen feature length DANGER MAN film Koroshi, ITC publicity, scripts, extensive image galleries, this is the definitive edition of a cult TV classic.
- Exclusive Audio Commentaries & introductions by Guest Stars Peter Bowles, Jane Merrow, Derren Nesbitt and Margaret Nolan
- Exclusive Audio Commentary with Editor John Glen (James Bond)
- A Man To Be Trusted: Edwin Astley - Jon Astley discusses his father's work on Danger Man and other ITC series'
- Koroshi - the Danger Man full-length feature film
- Original Trailers & archive footage
- Alternate Title Sequences
- Secret Agent titles with Johnny Rivers theme song
- Original Scripts & Danger Man Annuals (PDF DVD-ROM content)
- 3 Insert Booklets featuring Original ITC Publicity Material
- Production Notes
- Original ITC Story Information (PDF DVD-ROM content)
- Extensive Image & Memorabilia Galleries
- and more!
Before The Avengers and the James Bond films, the pioneering 1960 British series Danger Man helped to usher in spy-mania in Great Britain. Patrick McGoohan stars as "Drake, John Drake," an agent of NATO's secret service branch. "A messy job," he informs us, "That's when they usually call on me." ... essential for Brit-TV aficionados, not to mention that branch of Prisoner devotees who insist that the kidnapped "No. 6" is actually Drake himself. Like 007, the dapper and unflappable Drake possesses a keen wit and "animal sense of danger," and his assignments take him all over the world, from Rome and Paris to the Arabian desert. But Drake is old school. He very rarely uses a gun. He is not a womanizer. He does not possess an arsenal of cool gadgets. His missions are more gritty and realistic; classic "cloak and dagger" stuff. He foils not megalomaniacs trying to take over the world, but a rogue's gallery of embezzlers, assassins, slave traders, traitors, and the like. Also fun for Anglophiles are early glimpses of favorite British character actors, including Miss Moneypenny herself, Lois Maxwell ("Positions of Trust"); a pre-Avengers/Pussy Galore Honor Blackman ("Colonel Rodriguez"), Judy Carne, Laugh-In's Sock-It-to-Me girl ("Hired Assassin"; Charles Gray from the Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever ("The Key"); and Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs fame ("Name, Date and Place"). The jazzy score is also killer. --Donald Liebenson