Danger Man

John Drake

In the series' opening title sequence, the shot of Washington 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 catch phrase did not return in the later 1964 series.

The first episode was filmed in the northern Wales village of Portmeirion. Patrick McGoohan would return here to film The Prisoner (1967).

John Drake: [Opening titles narration] Every government has its Secret Service branch: America, CIA; France, Deuxieme Bureau; England, MI5. NATO also has its own. A messy job? Well that's when they usually call on me, or someone like me. Oh yes: my name is Drake. John Drake.