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[[File:earlyDrake_1247.jpg|frame|He's not a number. [[The Prisoner|Not yet anyway]].]]
{{quote|''"Every government has its secret service branch. America, CIA; France, Deuxième Bureau; England, MI5. NATO also has its own. A messy job? Well that's when they usually call on me or someone like me. Oh yes, my name is Drake, John Drake."''|First season [[Opening Narration]]}}
'''''Danger Man''''' (known internationally as ''Secret Agent'') was a British down-to-earth spy series made in [[The Sixties]]. Launched in 1960, originally it was going to bring none other than [[James Bond]] to the small screen and Ian Fleming 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 NATO superagent named John Drake, 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. After season 4, the star Patrick McGoohan decided to do something slightly different and gave us ''[[The Prisoner]]'', which is at least a [[Spiritual Successor]] and maybe even an outright continuation, depending on what you choose to believe.
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▲* [[Awesome but Practical]]: Drake's modus operandi.
* [[Banana Republic]]: Victoria, among other unnamed third-world countries.
* [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: The international version has the theme "Secret Agent Man" as performed by Johnny Rivers.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Drake.
* [[Determinator]]: Drake. This trait is probably most pronounced in "Whatever Happened to George Foster?"
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Furthermore, [[Smoking Is Cool]]. It was [[The Sixties]], after all.
* [[Friend to All Children]]
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: It is often pointed out that both sides in a cold war era spy game use the same kind of dirty tricks.
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