![]() ![]() Not only were the trio secret agents, they were secret agents who have to keep their super powers secret from even their boss, Tremayne. It was the Sixties, everyone was trying to take over the world, and it was blummin’ exciting. Then it’s just the usual day at the office fighting Nazis in South America, foiling Welsh cryogenic enthusiasts, and (thanks to budget constraints) taking part in an unusually high number of adventures involving a submarine…ġ968s The Champions was one of the earliest examples of what we now unfortunately refer to as ‘spy-fi’, and saw agents of ‘Nemesis’, Sharron, Richard, and Craig attempting to master their precognition, telepathy, and heightened psycho-physical abilities in order to foil those with plans of global domination. Oh, you know how it is: one minute you’re in a plane crash in the Himalayas, the next you’re being granted extra-human abilities by an advanced Tibetan civilization. So long as you consider a man punching a lot of people family friendly. McGoohan was adamant that Danger Man be a family friendly show. He was suave, well suited, assumed identities readily, and he had more than a few gadgets at his disposal (more than Bond, in fact), but he never carried a gun and rarely engaged romantically with the ladies. Played by Patrick ‘Number Six’ McGoohan, Drake was a sort of TV James Bond with the vices and more violent tendencies sanded away. Into this atmosphere, and onto the UK’s screens, came Danger Man.ĭanger Man saw NATO agent John Drake being called in for what he described as any ‘messy job’, which usually meant him practising fisticuffs in a foreign locale, from Kashmir to Rome. As East and West rattled big weapons and bigger threats, Ian Fleming was churning out Bond novels almost as fast as he drank. The world was becoming smaller just as the war was getting colder. The dawn of the jet age and the space race. It also follows in the great tradition of the British espionage genre on TV – a tradition that we’re about to spy on ourselves, as we look back at some of the best spy shows Blighty has ever sent out onto our screens, often armed with nothing more than a dashing lead and a licence to be suave.īecause when it comes to putting espionage on the screen, nobody does it better… The Night Manager, BBC One’s gripping new spy drama that’s been thrilling Sunday night audiences – and set Tumblr aflame with images of Tom Hiddleston’s bum – is out now on DVD (pause buttons at the ready!).Ī slick, updated adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1993 novel that sees a former soldier recruited to infiltrate the confidences of an arms dealer, it boasts a fine cast including man of the Gif-able moment, Tom Hiddleston international treasure Hugh Laurie and the embodiment of Britain and goodness itself, Olivia Colman.
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