Danger Man

MI-5 Agent John Drake is in Rome investigating the murder of a banker who's embezzled a large amount of gold from his employers.The trail leads through a seemingly uninterested wife and a lady friend of the banker who may not want to be found.

Drake flies to Paris to find an international killer.His tries to retrieve not kill him, but that becomes more complicated with the involvement of a young woman.

Josetta is a young blind woman who is the only one who can identify her brother's killer.Drake tries to help her

Drake travels to the Arabian Desert to investigate stories of slavery.While there he befriends a Muslim boy and helps a stranded showgirl who believes Drake is a slave broker

The Lovers — Season 1, Episode 5 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-10-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Girl in Pink Pyjamas — Season 1, Episode 6 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-10-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Position of Trust — Season 1, Episode 7 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-10-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Lonely Chair — Season 1, Episode 8 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-10-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Sanctuary — Season 1, Episode 9 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-11-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

An Affair of State — Season 1, Episode 10 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-11-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Key — Season 1, Episode 11 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-11-20. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Sisters — Season 1, Episode 12 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-11-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Prisoner — Season 1, Episode 13 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-12-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Traitor — Season 1, Episode 14 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-12-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Colonel Rodriguez — Season 1, Episode 15 of Danger Man. Aired 1960-12-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Island — Season 1, Episode 16 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-01-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Find and Return — Season 1, Episode 17 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-01-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Girl Who Liked GIs — Season 1, Episode 18 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-01-15. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Name, Date and Place — Season 1, Episode 19 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-01-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Vacation — Season 1, Episode 20 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-01-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Conspirators — Season 1, Episode 21 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-02-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Honeymooners — Season 1, Episode 22 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-04-02. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Gallows Tree — Season 1, Episode 23 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-04-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Relaxed Informer — Season 1, Episode 24 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-04-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Brothers — Season 1, Episode 25 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-04-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Journey Ends Halfway — Season 1, Episode 26 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-04-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Bury the Dead — Season 1, Episode 27 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-05-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Sabotage — Season 1, Episode 28 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-05-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Contessa — Season 1, Episode 29 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-05-21. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Leak — Season 1, Episode 30 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-05-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Trap — Season 1, Episode 31 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-06-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Actor — Season 1, Episode 32 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-06-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Hired Assassin — Season 1, Episode 33 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-06-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Coyannis Story — Season 1, Episode 34 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-12-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Find and Destroy — Season 1, Episode 35 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-12-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Under the Lake — Season 1, Episode 36 of Danger Man. Aired 1961-12-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

The Nurse — Season 1, Episode 37 of Danger Man. Aired 1962-01-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Dead Man Walks — Season 1, Episode 38 of Danger Man. Aired 1962-01-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Deadline — Season 1, Episode 39 of Danger Man. Aired 1962-01-20. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Mr. Brett is known to be giving away British industrial secrets. However, when Drake confronts him, he discovers things are a lot more complicated and that John Brett is not the only person being investigated.

An important M9 agent has gone missing in Prague, and Drake's sent in as a British diplomat to find him. It appears a blackmail ring is operating, and soon, Drake has to rescue the agent, and his family, from death.

Drake takes the place of a defector and goes behind the iron curtain to find out what is happening when foreign agents reach England. When he gets there he finds a replica English village, which is a school where foreign agents are taught to 'be British'. Actual British subjects, such as Drake, are employed to teach the agents the finer points of the British way of life. Drake sets out to disrupt their education and stop the supply of agents from reaching England.

Drake is sent to Africa to protect the prime minister, who is in the midst of an election campaign. It is suspected that the opposition leader is planning to overthrow the government but Drake finds out that it is much more complicated.

In a poignant reminder that spies are merely people and that they often take terrible punishment when caught, Drake tries to stop a former agent from killing the East German government official who had her tortured beyond repair.

M9 receives a mayday signal from an agent in an Arab country. He has been compromised and must get out. The agent is also the contact for a local spy called the Fish. Drake is sent undercover to bring the Fish out.

Drake is in India when he is asked by an old friend, the Delhi police chief, to investigate the mysterious death of the employee of a retired colonel. The colonel sells exotic butterflies but Drake finds out that there is a lot more to it.

A woman disguised as a clumsy tea lady steals some secret papers, which are sold to the highest bidder by a Mr Kent. M9 sends Drake to investigate a number of similar thefts by befriending the woman and infiltrating the organisation.

An international financier has come to the notice of M9, as he is believed to be an extortionist and murderer. When some important people are found dead, Drake goes undercover as a butler at the financier's rented villa in Rome.

Two M9 agents have been tortured and murdered on a Caribbean island, and Drake's sent to find out who killed them and to determine how much information they divulged before dying.

An agent is selling secrets to a foreign government. How he is doing this is unclear so Drake is brought in to find out, which he does by befriending him as a bumbling teacher on stress leave.

A glamorous actress is murdered and an M9 agent, whose cover has been discovered, is framed for her murder. Drake task is to get him out of jail and off the island using a submarine code-named Doris.

Confidential papers go missing, and Drake travels to a small island off the coast of Scotland in search of them and the culprit.

A prisoner is soon to be released and is offered a well-paid job that is obviously crooked. As he wants to go straight, he reports the approach. Drake takes his place in order to find out what the crime is to be, which is murder.

Drake discovers that a woman is financing political agitators in Santo Marco trying to bring down the government. He sets out to find out who employs her and why. Drake finds it is being funded by a rich member of the aristocracy.

To save a friend with sensitive information who is being held in the Romanian embassy in Geneva, Drake must break into the embassy, in defiance of the British ambassador, retrieve his friend, and avoid an international incident.

A former republican leader returns to his home country to retire. However, he is arrested by the current president and faces the death sentence, something both the British and Americans do not want to happen. Drake is sent in to stop it.

After a driving accident, Drake finds he has a £500 gambling debt at a club he has no knowledge of, yet the staff seem to know him, and the club's manager, Mr. Alexander knows all about Drake's career with M9, and plans to blackmail him.

A government officer's defected, and M9 wants him back, and Drake's to try and get him.

Drake follows a young lady, who has been selling secrets, to France where he confronts her with what he knows. Kathleen is being blackmailed and her role is to take the information to France. She offers to help Drake find who employs her.

Bierce is a British diplomat in France. He shoots a man, to whom he owes money, and hides the body. He then suddenly disappears. Drake is sent to try and find out what has happened to him.

A British husband and wife, both atomic scientists, disappear whilst on holiday. The suspicion is they've been kidnapped and Drake is sent to investigate.

After a fellow M9 agent is murdered Drake is sent to Rome to investigate and after retrieving the dead agent's tape recorder, learns about a ‘murder incorporated' organisation. Drake arranges for himself to be assassinated at midnight in order to flush out the assassin and to identify the leader of the organisation.

The Black Book — Season 3, Episode 2 of Danger Man. Aired 1965-09-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

A Chinese spy ring is operating in Singapore and Drake is sent to infiltrate, taking the place of a man already working for the ring, in order to try and bring the ring to an end.

Sting in the Tail — Season 3, Episode 4 of Danger Man. Aired 1965-10-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

There's a nice Portuguese villa where an English lady and her husband reside.  Lodger's there are suspected when the husband disappears and Drake is assigned to see what's going on.  He is brought in on a smuggling ring by the lodgers who say they are smuggling industrial diamonds.  In reality, they are smuggling missile electronics.

The Ministry wants to continue good relations with an African country.  But agents have discovered that certain elements of that country have signed agreements with the Chinese.  It is up to Drake to find the evidence of this and turn it over to the African country's Prime Minister in order to expose the truth to him and keep relations with the British.

An agent is killed in the field and Drake is sent to the African country where it happened to investigate the generals and leaders of a small mercenary band intent on seeing the country's leader die while under the knife in a hospital so that they may take control of the country.

Drake's immediate plans are disrupted when London authorizes him to pick up a doctor who is targeted by the opposition and bring him to London.  He begins to suspect that forces are already moving against him before he gets very far.

There's a security leak and the suspect is murdered by someone unknown.  Drake is assigned to unravel who killed the informant and discover just how the information was being passed on.

Agents are disappearing.  Drake is assigned to be the next courier in order to find out how.  But he has three contacts along the way.  All three have impeccable records.  But which one is working for the other side?

Drake is asked to check up on an old friend who may be passing information to the opposition.  He initially refuses the assignment, but decides to take the assignment figuring if there is any wrongdoing, he might be able to mitigate it.

Drake is working for Sir Alan Grose to try and find out who is the double agent within the organization.

Agent goes missing and M9 isn't sure if he is dead or alive.  Drake is assigned to find out.  What he finds is that it's a lot more complicated than anyone thinks as the opposition has found a way to infiltrate our side through the use of plastic surgery.

An agent has been captured and interrogated.  Drake is assigned to spring him before he breaks.

Drake is sent to get inside the political aspirations of a revolutionary candidate by posing as a gun runner.

A scientist accidentally develops a deadly gas that governments want their hands on.  He flees the country and Drake is sent to bring him back before enemy agents grab him.

Classified information on British oil reserves is being leaked to foreign agents.  Drake is sent to find out how.

The Hunting Party — Season 3, Episode 18 of Danger Man. Aired 1966-01-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

Drake is framed for the murder of a Latin American country leader and must clear his name and expose the real plot and assassins.

An agent is kidnapped by one of the opposition and a body left in a burning car to make everyone think he was killed in a car crash.  Drake determines he is not dead after all and sets out to find who kidnapped him and rescue him before it's too late.

While on a well deserved vacation, Drake is still in search of an enemy agent who knows his cover as a spy.  If he can't apprehend him, his cover is blown.

Secret papers are stolen out of a government car by a local thief and have found their way to enemy agents.  Drake leads a merry chase to find them before the weekend is over.

An obsolete offshore defense outpost is now being used as a radio station.  It is also being used to send government secrets to enemy submarines.

A Japanese agent warns that a UN negotiator will be assassinated in New York by a Tokyo-based organisation. She is killed before she can give the details and Drake is sent to Tokyo to investigate. The only clue is a pendant the girl had.

An electronics expert working for the government suddenly retires. M9 wants to know why, and Drake takes his place. His search leads to an island off Japan; Shinda Shima.