Danger Man

• Title: Danger Man – The Key
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Our Throwback Tuesday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. There is victory but no winners when Drake is sent to Vienna to investigate reporter Harry Logan (Robert Flemyng) who is the lead suspect in a series of leaks of classified information smuggled out of the country. Despite evidence of the man’s guilt, Drake’s gut won’t let him believe the reporter is the leak. The truth is more complicated, as the Logan will learn for himself when his wife (Monique Ahrens) is implicated in the plot.

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• Title: Danger Man – An Affair of State
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Our Throwback Thursday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) flies to San Pablo to investigate the suspicious disappereance an American economist who was deciding whether or not the Caribbean state would receive money from the United States Government. All evidence points to a suicide, but while investigating the official story Drake runs across the the man’s secret wife (Dorothy White) who insists that the story Drake has been fed is nothing more than a pack of lies and he was killed to protect a secret he had found on the day of his death.

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• Title: Danger Man – Position of Trust
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Our Throwback Tuesday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. With a personal stake in the outcome, there’s a ruthlessness to John Drake‘s (Patrick McGoohan) actions in “Position of Trust.” After being approached by an old friend whose daughter has become addicted to opiates, the spy heads to the Middle East searching for those buying raw opium and smuggling it into the United States. Helping him are local agent Sandi Lewis (Lois Maxwell, best known for her role as the first Miss Moneypenny) and an unwitting accomplish that Drake tricks and blackmails into helping him get the information he came for. While it’s a bit simplistic to think Drake’s actions here have any real impact in the illegal drug industry, the episode sells both the importance of the information he seeks to acquire and the personal interests which motivate him.

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• Title: Danger Man – The Girl in Pink Pajamas
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Our Throwback Thursday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. “The Girl in Pink Pajamas” offers a terrific set-up as John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) heads to the Balkans where an attempted assassination is being kept under wraps at a small hospital, under the guise of mysterious contagion, as doctors work to save the President (Robert Cawdron) of an Amercian-friendly Balkan state. At the same time a young American woman (Angela Browne) suffering from amnesia but muttering about the hospital is found in the countryside. Drake returns to the hospital with the woman, hoping to put the pieces together before another attempt is made on the President’s life.

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