Danger Man
Colony Three
TV Flash files “Colony Three” as a desk essential hour — Danger Man (1960–1968) on ITV, season 2, episode 3, aired 1964-10-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E03: listed hour 42 of 86 in the Danger Man guide, hour 3 of 22 in season 2. It aired 1964-10-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Professionals” (S02E02). Next is “The Galloping Major” (S02E04).
Essential hour: “Colony Three”. Colony Three — mid-run landmark title, moral stubbornness as the hour's gadget, the runway to The Prisoner already audible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Colony Three sit in the Danger Man guide?
S02E03 is listed hour 42 of 86 — hour 3 of 22 in season 2, season 2 episode 3.
When did Danger Man S02E03 air?
Colony Three aired 1964-10-27 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
A John Drake mission with McGoohan's chill — brains over gadgets — is the professional contract. U.S. prints may be titled Secret Agent; same agent.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Danger Man (Secret Agent in U.S. syndication) is Patrick McGoohan's John Drake: spy craft with fewer toys and more professional chill. The ITC series is the sober sibling of Bond mania, and the runway to The Prisoner. McGoohan refuses to wink — taut missions, moral stubbornness, and the reason Number Six already feels like a resignation letter.
Two windows, one chill. Danger Man (Secret Agent in U.S. syndication) is Patrick McGoohan's John Drake: spy craft with fewer toys and more professional quiet. Ralph Smart's ITC series ran in phases — **1960–1962 and 1964–1968** — as the sober sibling of Bond mania. Brains, ethics tension, minimal camp. International assignments as professionalism. Rex will toast the tuxedo era. McGoohan refused to play Bond, and the Drake-to-Number-Six pipeline is the lore: taut missions, moral stubbornness, the reason Number Six…
Filed against
- Patrick McGoohan as John Drake
Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six spends The Prisoner demanding identity in a pastel Village of surveillance — seventeen stylish, stubborn episodes, a finale that still starts arguments — after Danger Man’s John Drake practiced spy craft with…