Danger Man bears more than a passing resemblance to "Dangerous Assignment," Brian Donlevy's radio program and brief syndicated TV adventure show from 1952, a program that pre-dated even Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Donlevy's character galavanted all over the world beating people up on behalf of an obscure security agency, just as Drake does here. This parallel may explain why McGoohan had no qualms about hijacking the Danger Man character later on for his own "Prisoner" production, knowing that the whole concept of the secret agent goes back as far Hitchcock and Joseph Conrad and a lot further, and can't really be copyrighted.
Review of Danger Man
