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Secret Agent AKA Danger Man: The Complete Collection (Slimline Packaging)
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| $102.19 | $48.01 |
Format | Black & White, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Box set |
Contributor | Don Chaffey, Patrick McGoohan, Lionel Murton, Richard Wattis, Peter Madden |
Number Of Discs | 18 |
Runtime | 57 hours |
Publication Date | September 28, 2010 |
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Product Description
Product Description
It was 1965 when American audiences first welcomed handsome secret agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan of The Prisoner) into their homes as CBS ran the unique spy series known as Secret Agent. Wielding brains and a moral outlook instead of weapons, Drake traveled to the corners of the globe on the trail of international criminals, corrupt politicians, and stolen secrets.
Now, all 86 episodes from John Drake s entire crime-solving career are available together on DVD. Each episode of this exciting spy thriller is presented in the original broadcast order, from the original season that aired only in the U.K. as Danger Man to the 47 episodes of Secret Agent that were seen internationally, including the two color episodes that provided a vivid finale to the long-running suspense thriller.
Special Features
- Patrick McGoohan Biography/Filmography
- Complete Full-Length Original U.S. Opening Featuring Secret Agent Man Sung by Johnny Rivers
- Photo Galleries
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.64 x 5.43 x 2.13 inches; 1.32 Pounds
- Director : Don Chaffey
- Media Format : Black & White, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Box set
- Run time : 57 hours
- Release date : September 28, 2010
- Actors : Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton, Peter Madden
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Studio : A&E Home Video
- ASIN : B003JQZY8A
- Number of discs : 18
- Best Sellers Rank: #108,864 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #5,666 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #18,052 in Drama DVDs
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i will and do recommend this Danger Man complete TV series.
I concur with many of the other reviewers: The video transfer is awfully good for a show this old (although there's an annoying white thread across Drake's nose in the one version of the opening titles). Audio is marginal at times and muddy, but good enough for viewing. For most of the episodes, the audio is actually decent.
The 30 minute episodes are very, very fast-paced, and one can sometimes tell they were trying to cram a little too much plot and dialog into the time available. Everybody talks fast, and sometimes McGoohan seems to be playing up his supposedly American origins a bit much, almost Cagney-style. They clearly eased up a lot when going to the hour-long format (and Drake was said to be British), and I think the extra time allowed for much better story development.
Absolutely: The show was produced cheaply. Stock footage. Rear-projection. Re-used sets. Indoor studio sets standing in for outdoors. Re-using the same actors in multiple roles across shows (William Marshall is especially conspicuous). Caucasian British nationals done up badly in make-up to make them look African, East Indian, or Chinese. (On the other hand, there's less of this in the hour-long shows; probably reflective of larger budget and the fact there was a fair amount of social progress between 1960 and 1964.) Yes, everybody drinks like fish and smokes like chimneys. In fact, offering people cigarettes is one of John Drake's particular affectations, and he's constantly using his smoking as a cover for taking pictures with his miniaturized camera disguised as a (functional) lighter.
But I can overlook all that when there's good acting and writing. As I said, McGoohan really shines when he pretty much ditches his Drake surname and becomes someone else. A prim, unflappable butler. A neurotic novelist. A drunken ne'er-do-well. A tennis instructor. A playboy. A just-released prison inmate. An unemployed nebbish schoolteacher. An Army major. A professional spy-master. The whole "taken away your name" line from the American version theme song actually has some meaning here, in that Drake spends so much time being someone else, one could easily imagine him losing his real self.
Then there's the writing. I am very particular and highly critical of bad writing. I hate it when I can figure out how a story is going to end in the first five minutes -- and these shows almost never reveal where they're going until the last scene. Often Drake will concoct a complicated plan...only to have something go very wrong, and then he has to improvise like mad. Moreover, his foes -- "the other side" as they're often called -- are rarely stupid. Drake has to outsmart and outmaneuver them, and even then the outcome isn't always as he wants it to be.
I also like the way Drake doesn't lean very heavily on his gadgets (all of which are totally plausible given 1960s technology), and he almost never uses a gun. His chief weapons are his wits and ability to improvise. Whatever the assignment, he has a moral code that is so strict, he'll sometimes bend his orders to achieve what to him is a better outcome. Or try to -- again, sometimes he doesn't win 100%. Most of all, he comes across as genuine and real.
Anyway, for the current Amazon price of a little over forty bucks for the entire set, spanning 86 episodes, it's hard to go wrong. With the slimline-packaging version, it won't even take up much space on the video shelf.
DVD Features:
* Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
* All 86 episodes in original broadcast order on 18 discs in Thinpaks, including: the original season that aired only in the U.K. as Danger Man, the 47 episodes of Secret Agent that aired internationally, and the two color series-finale episodes
* Patrick McGoohan biography/filmography
* Complete full-length original U.S. opening featuring "Secret Agent Man" sung by Johnny Rivers
* Photo gallery
DVD Episodes:
View From the Villa / Time to Kill / Josetta / The Blue Veil / The Lovers / The Girl in the Pink Pyjamas / Position of Trust / The Lonely Chair / The Sanctuary / An Affair of State / The Key / The Sisters / The Prisoner / The Traitor / Colonel Rodriguez / The Island / Find and Return / The Girl Who Liked G.I.s / Name, Date and Place / Vacation / The Conspirators / The Honeymooners / The Gallows Tree / The Relaxed Informer / The Brothers / The Journey Ends Halfway / Bury the Dead / Sabotage / The Contessa / The Leak / The Trap / The Actor / Hired Assassin / The Deputy Coyannis Story / Find and Destroy / Under the Lake / The Nurse / Dead Man Walks / Deadline / The Battle of the Cameras / A Room in the Basement / Fair Exchange / Fish on the Hook / No Marks for Servility / Yesterday's Enemies / The Professionals / A Date With Doris / The Mirror's New / Colony Three / It's up to the Lady / Whatever Happened to George Foster? / The Galloping Major / The Colonel's Daughter / That's Two of Us Sorry / Such Men Are Dangerous / A Man to Be Trusted / The Affair at Castelevara / Don't Nail Him Yet / The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove / Have a Glass of Wine / You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You? / Sting in the Tail / The Black Book / English Lady Takes Lodgers / Loyalty Always Pays / Are You Going to Be More Permanent? / Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet / A Very Dangerous Game / The Mercenaries / The Outcast / Judgement Day / To Our Best Friend / Say It With Flowers / The Man on the Beach / The Man Who Wouldn't Talk / Someone Is Liable to Get Hurt / Dangerous Secret / I Can Only Offer You Sherry / The Hunting Party / Two Birds With One Bullet / I'm Afraid You Have the Wrong Number / The Man With the Foot / The Paper Chase / Not So Jolly Roger / Koroshi / Shinda Shima /