TV Guide: Patricia Drake

Video: The Black Book

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Patrick McGoohan, as John Drake, finds that a request to investigate a case of blackmail leads him into unexpected drama in the "Danger Man" episode "The Black Book", In which the action takes place in Paris. The girl in the case is Georgina Ward, and the man principally involved is played by Griffith Jones. Other starring parts are played by Jack Gwillim and Patricia Haines. John Drake (PATRICK IVIcGOOHAN) feels that it is not really any concern of his when asked to go to Paris to investigate a case of blackmail; he is not a crime-buster. But the man who asks him to do so, General Carteret (JACK GWILLIM), is far too important to displease, and the black?mailing victim is the General's brother-in-law. Sir Noel Blanchard (GRIFFITH JONES), who holds a big British Government post in Paris.

Video: A Man To Be Trusted

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Witchcraft and present-day espionage become closely involved for Danger Man John Drake in "A Man to be Trusted," a fascinating adventure -Ai an island in the West Indies - a story in which three attractive women, two of them widowed, play vital roles in the mystery Drake is sent out there to solve. The title rote of the man to be trusted, a shrewdly audacious and amusing Spanish police lieutenant, is played by Harvey Ashby, appearing with Patrick MeGoohan as John Drake and with Patricia Donahue, EuniceGayson and Wanda Ventham as the three girls. Other principal roles are taken by Ralph Michael and Christopher Carlos. The Spectacular voodoo dance scenes are designed by Boscoc Holder and performed by the Boscoe Holder Dancers.

Video: The Mercenaries

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

John Drake joins a Mercenary army as a private to investigate the army's activities in Africa after the murder of a M.I.9 agent who had been assigned to this task. In doing so he uncovers an ingenious plan to dispose of the premier of a newly independent nation. "The Mercenaries" provides Patrick McGoohan with some of the most dramatic and arduous sequences yet filmed for the "Danger Man" series, and suspense-packed adventure is combined with the romantic attentions of a beautiful but neglected woman, played by Patricia Donahue, with John Slater as the Prime Minister and other major roles portrayed by Percy Herbert, Peter Arne, Frederick Paisley, Jack Gwillim, John Gabriel, Derrick de Marney and Zia Moyheddin. The Mercenaries are known as "Crazy Coote's Commandos" - a dare-devil volunteer army organised by the swaggering Colonel Coote (DERRICK DE MARNEY) and whose activities in Africa are the cause of considerable uneasiness In British War Department circles. This is why M.I.9 has plan

Video: The Outcast

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A pretty WRNS officer is murdered in Gibraltar - and John Drake has to find a missing radio operator who is known to be somewhere in Spain. Bernard Bresslaw guest-stars, in support of Patrick McGoohan, as the radio operator with a at that includes Patricia Haines, Brian Worth and teen-age actress Judy Geeson, The murder of Petty Officer Sandra Smith (ANITA WEST) of the WRNS outside the gates of the WRNS barracks in Gibraltar is of sufficient significance to bring John Drake (PATRICK McGOOHAN) into the case. She had signal messages in her handbag - messages intended only for the eyes of senior staff and which were never in her room. And, three days after her death, a radio operator named Leo Perrins (BERNARD BRESSLAW), has disappeared, absent without leave. He had access to signals but not to cipher; Sandra Smith had access to cipher.

Video: Yesterday's Enemies

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Danger Man John Drake faces one of the most difficult and worrying tasks of his career when a former British agent sets up his own highly unusual espionage network. Patrick McGoohan has a large cast of popular players to support him in this story, in which the action takes place in the Lebanon. Howard Marion Crawford appears as the renegade agent, with Patricia Driscoll as his wife. Maureen Connell is seen as a British agent in charge of a Middle East security station. Anton Rodgers appears as a Lebanese Security Chief, with Peter Copley and Aubrey Morris in other leading roles.