History Series / Dangerman

* FedoraOfAsskicking: Drake can often be seen wearing one of these.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: 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.

* DirectedByCastMember: Patrick McGoohan directed two episodes, "To Our Best Friend" and "The Paper Chase."

* BizzaroEpisode: "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" which one could almost say (what with Don Chaffey directing, and all) that it was a beta test for ThePrisoner.

* {{Determinator}}: Drake. This trait is probably most pronounced in "Whatever Happened to George Foster?"

* KnightInSourArmor: Drake, of course, and some of his fellow agents. His idealism often puts him in conflict with his bosses or other more ruthless fellow agents.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Drake rarely carries a gun as he prefers to use his wits first and violence secondarily and usually goes to great lengths to avoid killing people, not to mention in many of the situation he goes in undercover a gun would be very suspicious.

* DeadpanSnarker: Drake.

* FriendToAllChildren

* MasterActor: Drake, of course. The most amazing acting transformation (in this troper's opinion) is when in one episode Drake pretends to be a meek and nervous schoolteacher; he goes from a slump-shouldered fellow with lightly unfocused eyes who sort of tries to huddle into the nearest corner, to the razor-eyed and leonine Drake and back at the drop of a hat.

* ImprovisedWeapon:

* MasterActor: Drake, of course. The most amazing acting transformation (in this troper's opinion) is when in one episode Drake pretends to be a meek and nervous schoolteacher; he goes from a slump-shouldered fellow with lightly unfocused eyes who sort of tries to huddle into the nearest corner, to the razor-eyed, perfect postured, lion-like Drake and back at the drop of a hat.

* KnightInSourArmor: Drake, of course, and some of his fellow agents. Drake tries to be as honourable as the job will allow and find better options than the more ruthless ones his bosses often order.

''Danger Man'' ran for 86 episodes spread across four seasons of uneven length. The first season aired in half-hour installments in both the UK and on CBS in the US in 1960-61. In this version, Drake is an Irish-American agent working for NATO on jobs considered "too messy" for organizations such as the CIA. Lack of interest by CBS in further episodes resulted in its cancellation and McGoohan went on to sign a contract with WaltDisney. In 1964, with the rise of Bondmania, a rebooted ''Danger Man'' series was launched in the UK; in this version, now running in higher-budgeted hour-long episodes, Drake is a British agent working for a secret agency called M9, though otherwise the character and storytelling remained the same as before. For US broadcast, the series was retitled ''Secret Agent''.

Season 4 was supposed to start the show's transition into color, but after completing only two episodes, McGoohan convinced the studio to ''cancel'' the series, so that he could instead produce a new series, ''Series/ThePrisoner'', which is at least a SpiritualSuccessor and maybe even an outright continuation, depending on what you choose to believe.

!!This show provides examples of:

[[caption-width-right:200: They've given him a number. [[ThePrisoner He will be angry later on.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:200:He's not a number. [[Series/ThePrisoner Not yet anyway]].]]

''Danger Man'' (known internationally as ''Secret Agent'') was a British down-to-earth spy series made in TheSixties. Launched in 1960, originally it was going to bring none other than JamesBond 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 ''Series/ThePrisoner'', which is at least a SpiritualSuccessor and maybe even an outright continuation, depending on what you choose to believe.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: It is often pointed out that both sides in a cold war era spy game use the same kind of dirty tricks.

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

-->--''first season opening credits''