Danger Man (1964 TV Series)

Danger Man (1962-1966) movie poster.

TV Series (1962-1967)
US title: Secret Agent
French title : Destination Danger

Starring:
Patrick McGoohan (John Drake)
Peter Madden (Hobbs)
Earl Cameron (Chand)
Zia Mohyeddin (Dr. Sawari)
John Cazabon (Aurel)
John Welsh (British First Secretary Forbes)

Three years after the original "Danger Man" series concluded, it was revamped and continued in a longer format. John Drake is now a Special Security Agent for MI9, getting his exotic assignments exclusively from Her Majesty's Secret Service. This version of the series introduced far more Bond-like gadgets, from exploding tie-pins to tape-recording shavers, and emphasized fast action.

Also from this series:

Danger Man (1960)

Season One

Boeing 707-121

Ep. 19 Name, Date and Place.

Boeing 707-121 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Season Two

Vickers Wellesley Mk.I

Ep. 01 Yesterday's Enemies
Vickers Wellesley Mk.I, K7716, No 76 Squadron, RAF Finningley, April 1937. 18 months later, K7716 was destroyed in a "head on" mid-air collision with Wellseley K7714 (both actually of 148 Squadron, RAF).

De Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C

Ep. 01 Yesterday's Enemies
Reg. OD-ADQ De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C of Middle East Airlines. Built in 1961 c/n 6446 and destroyed on 28 December 1968 by Israeli commandos at Beirut International Airport.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg. OD-ADQ De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C seen again as first action of Ep. 4.

A blurred still taken from a traveling, probably of the same airliner. Registration flipped.

Another De Havilland DH-106 Comet of MEA (end of the traveling so still always flipped).

See again at the begining of S2E04.

Ep. 04 The Galloping Major
Reg. OD-ADT De Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C in the foreground of Beirut airport (now not flipped).

De Havilland DH.106 Comet 4B

Ep. 01 Yesterday's Enemies
Reg. G-ARCO De Havilland DH.106 Comet 4B c/n 6449 built in April 1961. On the very first hours of 12 October 1967, a high explosive device detonated within the cabin under seat 4A or 5A. The explosion severely damaged the aircraft causing an out-of-control condition followed by structural break-up at FL150. The wreckage fell into the sea. No survivors among the 66 people on board.

Boeing 707-320

Ep. 01 Yesterday's Enemies
Boeing 707-320 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Not from PanAm.

Westland Widgeon

Ep. 03 Colony Three
Footage reused from the 1960 first series and found on other movies (details at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing)).

Sud Aviation Alouette AH.2 (SE 3130B)

Ep. 04 The Galloping Major
Sud Aviation Alouette AH.2 of the British Army Air Corps (AAC) serial XR387 c/n 1664 built in 1961 and written off in 1969. Crashed in Germany after take-off due to loss of control (on 8 May).

Boeing 707-321B

Ep. 10 A Man to be Trusted
Reg. N711PA Boeing 707-321B of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Ep. 15 Whatever happened to George Foster
Another one. The poor quality of the streaming doesn't allow to read the registration ...

De Havilland DH104 Dove 2

Ep. 11 Don't Nail Him Yet
Note the Avro Anson (profile) and four de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunks on the left margin.

Reg. G-ALCU De Havilland DH104 Dove 2 c/n 04022 built in 1948. Certificate of airworthiness expired on March 1973. Now as G-ALVD (since 2005 at least) at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry, U.K.

Avro Anson

Ep. 11 Don't Nail Him Yet
Continuity error as the pilot should start the Dove (action between the car bringing her to the plane and the DH104 taxiing).

Convair 990A Coronado

Ep. 16 A Room in the Basement
Convair 990A Coronado of Swissair.

Boeing 720-030B

Ep. 19 It's Up to the Lady
Boeing 720-030B of Pan Am-Pan American World World Airways.

Ep. 21 The Mirror's New
Reg. D-ABOM Boeing 720-030B c/n 18060/210 of Lufthansa.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle

Ep. 20 Have a Glass of Wine
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle of Air France.

Piper PA-23-160 Apache H

Ep. 20 Have a Glass of Wine
Reg. F-ASMY is fictitious but a Piper PA-23-160 Apache H with G-ASMY was built in 1962 and is still on her wheels in 2021 (with a heavy weathering).

Boeing 707-330B

Ep. 21 The Mirror's New
Boeing 707-330B of Lufthansa hiding an unidentified variant of the Convair CV-240 family at Flughafen Köln Bonn /Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN/EDDK).

Unidentified Aircraft

Ep. 22 Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet
In a very far distance a quadrijet is landing at a Caribean airport.
Seconds later, some desk model visible on the airline desk.
The copy found was of a too poor quality to say more. (Good) Screenshot needed !

Season Three

Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche

Ep. 7 Judgement Day

Beagle B.206

Ep. 7 Judgement Day
Continuity error : the passenger gets off the plane but the door does not match the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche.

Unidentified Aircraft

Ep. 8 The Outcast
Wingtip tank on a wing with a (British ? French ?) roundel. Maybe a French T-33 ?

Vickers 802 Viscount

Ep. 8 The Outcast
Vickers 802 Viscount of BEA-British European Airways.

Taylorcraft Auster

Ep. 12 The Man on the Beach

Patrick McGoohan not at the controls but only in a set as the glass roof should be integral not just this small panel. And there is no wing !

Douglas DC-8

Ep. 13 Say It with Flowers
A Douglas DC-8 of Swissair taxiing at Flughafen Zürich Kloten.

De Havilland DH.106 Comet

Ep. 13 Say It with Flowers

De Havilland DH.106 Comet of UAA-United Arab Airlines.

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle

Ep. 13 Say It with Flowers
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle of Swissair.

Ep. 18 The Hunting Party
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle of Air France.

Lockheed L-188 Electra

Ep. 14 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Lockheed L-188 Electra of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines.

Ilyushin Il-18

Ep. 14 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Ilyushin Il-18 of TABSO Bulgarian Air Transport seen at Sofia Airport (IATA: SOF, ICAO: LBSF); see the discussion tab.

Bell 47D-1

Ep. 15 Someone Is Liable to Get Hurt
Reg. G-ASJW Bell 47D-1 crashed on 19 July 1971 at Saxilby, Lincolnshire, England.

Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub

Ep. 16 Dangerous Secret
An argentinian Piper (registration in LV-??Z) used for crop spraying .

Lockheed Model 14H-2 Super Electra

Ep. 16 Dangerous Secret
Reg. CF-TCM Lockheed Model 14H-2 Super Electra (c/n 1476) was delivered in September 1938 to TCA (Trans-Canada Air Lines). She was sold in 1947 and became OO-APM, flying for COBETA. August 1951 sold again this time in Sweden where she was registered as SE-BTW but quickly written off (next november !). Funny to see a 20-years old footage used to illustrate a contemporary action !

Convair 990A Coronado

Ep. 20 I'm Afraid You Have the Wrong Number
Convair 990A Coronado of Swissair taxiing in front of a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle of Air France.
Same aircraft's footage in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Convair 440-11 Metropolitan

Ep. 20 I'm Afraid You Have the Wrong Number
Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair near the control tower of Aéroport International de Génève/Aéroport de Genève-Cointrin(GVA/LSGG).
Same aircraft's footage in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Season Four

Ep. 4.01 Koroshi

Boeing 707-320

Boeing 707-320 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.
At Haneda Airport (look the discussion tab for situation picture).

Boeing 707-330B

Boeing 707-330B of Lufthansa.

Douglas DC-8

Douglas DC-8 of JAL-Japan Air Lines.

Cessna 175B Skylark

Reg. G-AREB Cessna 175B Skylark c/n 56818 (registration cancelled by CAA 9/3/99). Former N8118T.

Made for Movie Aircraft

The high wing Cessna is now an unidentified low wing aircraft. Probably a set made for movie which started to dismantle at the very beginning of the crash.

Unidentified Aircraft

Ep. 4.02 Shinda Shima

No aircraft.

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See also

• Danger Man (1962-1966) at IMDb
• Danger Man (1962-1966) at Wikipedia
• Danger Man (1962-1966) at IMCDb