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My favorite british television. Danger Man and Secret Agent.

Probably my favorite tv period...well Twilight Zone and Outer Limits are prob#1 these are #2. #3 would be Have Gun Will Travel and Wanted Dead Or Alive.

Trust me...you want all of the above. Serious stories, excellent acting, exotic locations, etc.

Danger Man
This is cool--I'd honestly have to be there to explain it. I really cannot explain the awesomeness.

As usual, Drake is honest, and only killed one person the whole time (The Journey Ends Halfway), and then he obviously regrets it. I admire Drake. Wish there were more like him...

My fifty cents worth
Yes the transfers are splendid. Yes the shows are fast. Yes McGoohan is a remarkable actor.

I write his for the Prisoner or Secret Agent fan wondering if this set is worth a look. I offer a most unqualified yes. As others have said here, the shows are amazingly tight and controlled. Actually too tight for me; the development is quite linear, and I think they recognized that as the reincarnation went to a full hour. But the scripts are excellent, and show how much story can be dsiplayed and developed in 25 minutes.

The acting is mostly superb. Faces known from later on show up, and do a wonderful job. The direction works perfectly. The story is laid out, told, and concluded with efficiency and class.

But the part of these I like best is their pre "we're all good guys and bad guys" thinking. One side was good, one was bad, and the moral equivocation of so much later spy stuff is not seen here. Check out "The Sisters", a deft tale of misdirection in which the losers beg not to be deported back to their eastern homeland. They know what awaits failure. The stakes were high, the penalties severe, and Danger Man pulls no punches about which side was working for freedom and which celebrated repression.

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