User Reviews

John Drake's Mission: Discover if a enemy agent, thought to have been dead for ten years, is actually alive and living in northern Scotland. It seems his fingerprint turned up in a stolen car.

After a couple sub-par (well, sub-par by Danger Man standards) episodes it's nice to see things getting back on track. I found The Gallows Tree to be very entertaining. The The twist at the end was nicely played - at least I didn't see it coming. The location shots are quite nice, as is the supporting cast. The cast, by the way, is filled with a slew of long-time British character actors. Overall, an excellent way to spend about 25 minutes.

I just noticed that this episode was remade into one of the later hour long episodes. I'm looking forward to checking that out at some point.

A car is stolen. The fingerprints match those of a former British Agent - who's been gone for years. This is another episode of the original 1/2 hour series where there are strong similarities to a later, hour-long episode.

Nothing against DANGER MAN - in any form, hour or 1/2 hour - it's still one of the best shoes EVER. This episode is a case where there's strong similarities to a later - hour long episode. In this case, the 1/2 hour THE GALLOWS TREE has a strong connection with the hour long THAT'S TWO OF US SORRY.

I enjoy these cases of similarities between the short and long episodes, because they let you see how the same basic structure is handled in the 2 different formats. The 1/2 hour one tells the story in a tighter-structured, quicker pace. The hour-long episodes open the stories up.

While this isn't the only time this happens during the show(s) run (and it takes NOTHING away from either format), the authors of the teleplays are usually different.

More important, it shows what a wonderful talent pool there was on these shows - where these similarities still allow for the viewer to be surprised, and enjoy every moment of each.