Danger Man: Difference between revisions

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''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 (TV)|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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=== This show provides examples of: ===

* [[Awesome but Practical]]: Drake's modus operandi.

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* [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: The international version has the theme "Secret Agent Man" as performed by Johnny Rivers.

* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: lots.

* [[~~Busmans~~ Holiday]]: A running gag in the first season was Drake's inability to actually get the vacation he wanted.

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: A running gag in the first season was Drake's inability to actually get the vacation he wanted.

* [[California Doubling|Wales Doubling]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Drake tells people to "Do ''exactly'' as he says" often enough for it to be noticeable.

* [[Chaste Hero]]: John Drake does not romance women, although many of the women in the series show an obvious interest in him.

** [[Chick Magnet]]

* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Ocassionally happens to Drake or other secret agents.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Ocassionally happens to Drake or other secret agents.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Dell Comics adapted the original-format ''Danger Man'' as an issue of its long-running ''Four Color'' anthology series in 1961; in 1966, Gold Key Comics published 2 issues of ''Secret Agent'', based upon the later version of the series.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The first season was hardly a happyfest, but the second was way more depressing.

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* [[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.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]:

* [[No Hugging No Kissing]]: Drake does not get involved with women, period. He flirts with them, and they clearly find him attractive, but he is never shown romancing them. One episode, "The Black Book", has him attracted to a young woman, but he explains why he cannot get involved. The closest Drake comes is in two episodes guest starring Susan Hampshire (playing different, but similar characters in each), one of which ends with Drake and Hampshire's character leaving on a romantic rendezvous.

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Drake does not get involved with women, period. He flirts with them, and they clearly find him attractive, but he is never shown romancing them. One episode, "The Black Book", has him attracted to a young woman, but he explains why he cannot get involved. The closest Drake comes is in two episodes guest starring Susan Hampshire (playing different, but similar characters in each), one of which ends with Drake and Hampshire's character leaving on a romantic rendezvous.

* [[Qurac]]: Beth Ja Brin, plus various other unnamed Middle-Eastern countries.

* [[Retcon]]: Drake becomes a British agent in the later seasons, after having been an Irish-American NATO agent in the first.

* [[Ruritania]]: Slavosk, plus other unnamed Eastern European countries.

* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: Drake usually wears a nice suit, although at one point he is mocked for showing up at a crime scene in a tux.

* [[The Name Is Bond James Bond]]: Drake, John Drake, predating the Bond movies, but not the books.

* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]: Drake, John Drake, predating the Bond movies, but not the books.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: To an extent. Most episodes of the series did not involve Drake using deadly force, and an early episode in fact featured him being assigned an assassination and doing so only under protest (and he doesn't carry it out anyway). During the entire run of the series, Drake shoots a man only once (not counting a later episode where he shoots people in a dream/hallucination), and otherwise rarely carries a gun.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Mr. Wilson and Mr. Jones from "The Island".