Much like the U.S. series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., this cool, clever cold war spy show is built on elaborate espionage shell games and diplomatic chicanery, and Patrick McGoohan's John Drake is the ingenious con man behind the bluffs and feints. The eight episodes on set 3 feature the usual array of plots pulled off with tongue-in-cheek charm--the nationalistic fervor of "Have a Glass of Wine" turns espionage into a veritable sporting event between spies, and in "You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You?" Drake gets to the bottom of a murder for hire ring by taking out a hit on himself. But the humor is interspersed with more ambivalent episodes. "That's Two of Us Sorry" offers up a casualty of the cold war mentality, and the assassins school of "Such Men Are Dangerous" rings with an... Learn More
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Out of step with the public mood when it was released in 1968, Ice Station Zebra has held up decently as a Guy's Movie. Based on an Alistair MacLean novel, the film is half submarine picture and half spy puzzler, short on action but long on military chatter and espionage gamesmanship. Rock Hudson, looking seasoned and just a little miffed, gives one of his better performances as the captain of a nuclear sub, ordered to the Arctic to check out a disturbance at a research station on the floating ice. He doesn't know the mission, but he's stuck with mysterious passengers: haughty British agent Patrick McGoohan, back-slapping Russian operative Ernest Borgnine, and hostile Marine captain Jim Brown. McGoohan gets the film's best lines and finest fur jacket, but Brown is pretty cool in a... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Rock Hudson - Ernest Borgnine - Patrick McGoohan Director(s): John Sturges DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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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." Most Americans only know Drake as the Secret Agent Man, the title of the hour-long series that debuted on these shores in 1964. This half-hour series never aired in the United States, making this five-disc set, containing all 39 first season episodes, 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... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Patrick Mcgoohan DVD Release Date: Released the 30 December 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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I watched these shows on Saturday afternoons in the late 60s when I was a smug and angry adolescent. My dad, with whom I had very little in common otherwise, and I would come in from yard work, get a cool drink, and enjoy the smart and stylish show together. They were absorbing; for years I wondered why so little television could match the excellence of these. And though I have never seen them since, they, and the brilliant harpsichord theme song, remain etched in my mind.
So, nearly 40 years later, I bought them as a gift for my dad, now that we have more in common. And heard him, much to my surprise, complain.
Not because of the content. No, we watched the first three episodes last night, two wonderful, one not-so-good (wish they'd kept ALL American actresses... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Patrick Mcgoohan DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Yes, yes, we got all of the one-hour episodes. But where are the first season 39 episodes? All of the 30-minutes ones that constituted the first Danger Man season with our best example of british cool Patrick Mcgoohan. Now that we have the Prisoner episodes, and all of the one-hour episodes of Danger Man, we really need to copmplete our Pat McGoohan collection! I think these 39 30-minutes episodes would fit nicely on 5 DVDs... Are you reading this, A&E? More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Patrick Mcgoohan DVD Release Date: Released the 25 March 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Patrick McGoohan returns as British secret agent John Drake in the fourth boxed set of one hour long episodes of Danger Man. Presented in black and white, are adventures in espionage around the world. Here are summaries and/or comments for the episodes in this set. Episode ratings are on a scale from one to five (best).
Volume 7: (Disc 1)
Sting in the Tail (3): This episode features Derren Nesbitt, as "Rachid Noureddine", a hit man headquartered in Beirut. Drake's plan is to lure him to where he can be captured, by using his girlfriend, a nightclub singer. Drake's cover is as an artist, interested in painting the woman's picture. Nesbitt is an actor who usually has a riveting screen presence, and this is the case here. There are sparks, when he and Drake, clash swords over the woman.... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Peter Yates - Patrick McGoohan - Pat Jackson - Robert Day - Peter Maxwell DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Patrick McGoohan is back as John Drake, the stylish no-nonsense good guy. Sets 4 and 5 of this clever spy show contain some of the best Danger Man episodes of all. Drake himself is a shade more cynical than in the earlier sets, and he is more reluctant than ever to blindly obey his upper-class superiors. Sometimes he seems tired of his job which forces him to live without wife and family and one can feel he is on the brink of resigning. As he is shown to be a chivalrous man, he is genuinely upset when his missions force him to inflict emotional distress on a lady.
The quotation above is from the delightful comedy "Have A Glass Of Wine" from set 3, but there are few as lighthearted episodes in sets 4 and 5. Most of the stories here are serious dramas, with lots of memorable scenes and... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Peter Yates - Patrick McGoohan - Pat Jackson - Robert Day - Peter Maxwell DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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