Secret Agent, AKA Danger Man

Secrets are going astray in Beirut. Has a former British agent set up his own spy ring?

An M9 agent is missing. Drake goes undercover in Prague to find him and is targeted by a Czech spy and his femme fatale.

British communists are disappearing behind the iron curtain. Drake follows their trail to a replica of a British town used to acquaint Russian infiltrators with British ways.

Posing as Major Sullivan, Drake is sent to protect a new African government from election-time deceit and violence. Dodging an industrialist's predatory wife (Jill Melford), Drake discovers the real deceit, and his last-minute plot makes the election more honest than anyone else intended.

British agent Elizabeth Lanzig (Lela Goldoni) vows revenge on the East German spymaster who tortured her. Colleague John Drake is ordered to stop her, and finally succeeds by kidnapping the son of a rival spymaster (Andre van Gyseghem) and exchanging him for her.

The name "Fish" hides the identity of the organiser of a complex espionage system who is in danger of being exposed unless Drake is successful in his hazardous mission to the Middle East.

"In India's sunny clime," a retired colonel ekes out his pension by collecting and selling butterfly specimens. When the colonel's assistant dies mysteriously, Drake is sent to investigate, and ends up getting help from a local policeman, whose own investigation Drake pursues. Finally, both trails entwine in a complexity that makes this ep worth a second viewing.

On the French Riviera, John Drake poses as playboy gambler Peter Simons to gain the confidence of crafty spy czar A.J.A. Kent (Niall MacGinnis) and his accomplices, the beautiful Martine (Dawn Addams) and judo master Genicot (Frederick Bartman). Compromised by an overeager assistant who is photographed and identified, Drake feigns gullible drunkenness and turns a trap around on his enemies.

International extortionist Gregori Benares marries a lovely young Englishwoman and takes her to Rome; they stay in a villa where the butler is—John Drake. An ally of the shy wife and implacable enemy of the sadistic Benares, Drake exposes the man's kidnapping plot. McGoohan masterfully exploits the dramatic ambiguities in this role, which will also interest observers of The Prisoner's butler.

As a Scotland Yard detective, Drake arrives in the West Indies to investigate a murder and test the reliability of the local contact for British intelligence—a flamboyant Colonel Mora, played to perfection by Harvey Ashby. After close calls with women and voodoo cults, Drake sorts the evil from the good, and the colonel's flamboyance reveals an uxorious core.

British intelligence suspects that Rawson is selling secrets. Drake poses as a wimpy schoolteacher picked on by teenagers, wins Rawson's friendship, and trails him even to a soccer game, but resists simply pulling Rawson in until he can prove the treason. Following the man to a bookstore, Drake sees his quarry bolt, but discovers a lovely accomplice (Sheila Allen) and a sinister spymaster.

In a revolutionary Latin American state, Drake's friend Peter is framed for the murder of the General's mistress. Extracting the wounded Peter is a job for Drake, under cover as a journalist; and he finds an unlikely ally. When the General himself joins the chase, the escape becomes a matter of hairbreadth timing. Merrow and Radd and superb.

Drake is sent to a remote Scottish island to investigate a set of fingerprints that belong to a spy who was long thought dead. The results surprise (and chagrin) everyone. A sardonic comment on the intelligence business.

Drake takes the place of an ex-convict recruited as a terrorist and sent to an elegant school for assassins. He uncovers an ultra-right organization that believes its mission is to eliminate undesirable world leaders.

By accident Drake discovers that a new Latin-American republic is being sabotaged by a British industrialist for his own ends. Inexorably, Drake hunts down the industrialist's shady past and trades it for the small nation's autonomy.

Drake's old friend Keith is kidnapped by the opposition and held in the Embassy of Romania in Geneva. Called into unofficial action by Keith's wife (Jane Merrow), Drake enlists the help of two friends and Merrow herself. She poses as a rich hysteric and he as her doctor; the four engineer a daring rooftop-to-basement rescue.

Drake is sent to a Latin American country where an heroic old revolutionary is scheduled for execution. The Americans have a plan to save him, but Drake has a better idea, one that involves a documentary film and a chase through a theatre that sports a Rock Hudson poster. (Don't miss Aubrey Morris as the hotel's lugubrious resident spy).

Speeding on his way to the airport, Drake swerves to avoid a couple of young boys chasing a ball and loses control of his car. The rest of this story is supplied by Drake's subconscious: A duel of wits in which the hobo he passed on the road right before his accident morphs into the suave, sinister casino owner Mr. Alexander, whose unsavory deeds range from attempting to blackmail Drake to passing secrets via microdots on gambling chits.

Charles Glover, an idealistic Briton, flees eastward, and Drake follows Glover's wife Paula to a Greek village, where the opposition, in the person of one Nicos, is determined to bag the couple. Drake must convince the wife to return with her husband to England, where he is told the man will receive amnesty.

A delicious spoof of France, and a chase across its wine country—mostly by night. Drake follows a blackmailed Englishwoman to France where her military secrets are passed to a Russian agent posing as a French wine merchant. They are intercepted by a local lady spy who believes she has outwitted both, until Drake turns the tables—and brings his own bottle. A send-up of French justice, with George Benson as a proto-Clouseau.

A British diplomat in Paris goes missing for a day, and claims he can't remember it. Investigating, Drake improvises-- first as a German-Irish encyclopaedia salesman (complete with astrakhan cap) and later as the diplomat's gambling buddy. Tortured by two men (one of them Frank Maher, McGoohan's own stunt double), Drake finds the diplomat's triple life has been financed by a dead man.

Two English scientists, the Brooks, disappear from a beach. Pursuing them to the West Indies, Drake finds a disputed dead man, hears a tale of zombie mineworkers, and meets Russian agent Nicola Tarasova (Moira Redmond). Both spies find themselves following the trail of Dessiles, a Russian atomic scientist wooed by an African government. Dessile's mine is the site of a narrow escape for Drake, along with temporary-ally Tarasova and the missing Brooks couple.

A British Embassy official is being blackmailed and Drake is sent to expose the blackmailers and eliminate their hold over the official. The trail leads to a black book of western blackmail targets.

Drake takes the place of a defector in a plan to infiltrate Chinese Intelligence.

Drake provokes the jealously of a political assassin, wanted by the Parisian police, to leave the safety of Beirut.

In order to infiltrate a murder organisation Drake commissions his own murder.

The last message from an M9 agent in Africa reveals that China is about to gain a foothold in a country where Britain has financial interests. Drake is sent to discredit the Chinese.

Drake has the job, following a murdered M9 agent, of infiltrating a group of mercenaries that are planning to depose an African leader.

Drake sent to the Middle East to bring back a German scientist accused of war crimes has to defend him against Israeli agents wanting their own brand of justice.

When a Wren is murdered carrying secret papers and her missing boyfriend is the chief suspect, Drake follows and befriends him in search of the truth.

Drake investigates an agency in Lisbon dealing in stolen secrets and comes across a boarding house landlady dealing in stolen passports.

When M9 controllers mysteriously disappear in Geneva and a traitor is identified as one of three persons, Drake takes up the position of the new controller.

Drake finds himself assigned to find out if a colleague is a double agent. Unfortunately for him, that colleague is also his best friend.

Drake is sent to Jamaica to identify a M9 double agent operating from a luxury hotel but who spends his time drinking and lying on the beach much to his superiors' annoyance.

When money is drawn from the account of a dead freelance agent, Drake is sent to the clinic in Switzerland where the man had died three months previously.

When the M9 regional controller is captured in Bulgaria, Drake must effect a rescue before he talks under torture.

A Caribbean country's elections are threatened by an impending arms deal, but the local M9 agent has disappeared. Drake is sent to investigate.

A leading pacifist scientist creates a lethal virus and not trusting the government flees to France pursued by Drake and other interested parties wanting the virus.

A leak from a British embassy in the middle east leads Drake to an unassuming secretary and, posing as a journalist, he befriends her.

Drake poses as a butler to a man, and his domineering wealthy wife, suspected of leaking information to the newspapers. But how does he do it?

At a forthcoming Caribbean election in a British colony, M9 learn one of the parties plan to kill their own candidate to discredit the British. Drake has to protect the potential victim.

A British spymaster is kidnapped by enemy counterintelligence agents in Geneva. Drake has to find him and spring him before he talks and betrays the ring he has created in the enemy's embassy.

Drake is sent on extended holiday when his cover is blown but he is pursued by another agent.

Confidential papers are stolen from an embassy official in Rome. Drake is sent to recover them.

A wartime offshore sea fort being used as a pirate radio station is transmitting secrets to an enemy submarine. One agent has already been murdered on the fort. Drake has to find out how the transmissions are being done and find the culprit amongst the crew.

An M9 agent is murdered in Tokyo while transmitting a message about the impending assassination of a United Nations mediator. Drake is assigned to protect the official.

Assigned to take the place of an electronics expert to infiltrate a Japanese murder brotherhood, Drake follows a trail to Shinda Shima ('the murdered island').