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Release year: 1960

Storyline

John Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element which threatened world peace.

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Cast

Patrick McGoohan — John Drake
Richard Wattis — Hardy
Lionel Murton — Colonel Keller, Keller
Michael Ripper — Kane, Miguel Torres, Rangit Pal

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Did you know

• In this early series, the character of John Drake is clearly defined as being an American. When the character returned for the second Secret Agent (1964) series, the character had become either British or Irish (exactly which was never settled upon definitively).

• In the series' opening title sequence, the shot of Washington, D.C. is a composite of the Washington Capitol in the background and the Castrol Building, complete with London Bus stop, in the Marylebone Road, London as the foreground. This building is now the residential Marathon House having been converted from offices to flats in 1998.

• John Drake says the phrase "I'm obliged" in virtually every episode. The catchphrase did not return in the 1964 series.