User Reviews

This is a very good Secret Agent installment, with a supberb ending. The last five minutes are very "Prisoner" like, with whimsy substituting for standard issue logic. John Drake invents a unique way of turning the tables on the enemy. Peter Yates (Bullitt) successfully directs this episode.

This is one of those episodes where you have to pay attention to keep from getting confused (one of my unfortunate shortcomings), but the show is easy to navigate if you do. Just be aware that there is one actor playing two distinct roles.

In the spy gadget department, Drake has his trusty electric shaver / tape recorder at his side.

New to the series is a cigarette lighter with a cavity large enough to hold a tape from the shaver. This device was clearly conceived to give Drake a means to surreptitiously pass messages to another agent.

Another new spy gizmo is a flashlight that converts into an overhead slide projector. It's rather ingenious because you just fit an adapter on the lens of the flashlight, pop in a slide, turn on and aim the flashlight at a wall, and abracadabra; instant slide show. I can't help to wonder if such a nifty device made it to the consumer market.

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Throughout the series "Secret Agent", Patrick McGoohan did most of his own stunts. However, he and the producers weren't crazy and in a few instances they used Frank Maher as his stunt double. If you are curious exactly what Maher looked like and if he was a close duplicate, look for the character 'Carl'--as it's played by Maher himself.

In this installment, Drake (McGoohan) is investigating the supposed death of an agent in Switzerland. Folks are suspicious because one of the dead man's dormant bank accounts isn't very dormant--and SOMEONE is using the money. Is the guy really alive? Or, is this just a simple case of thievery? And what does a local clinic have to do with all this?

This is a very good episode with an interesting plot and an ending that is full of unexpected bravado on Drake's part. Well worth seeing.

Another great episode. This time Drake finds out about the case by following the wrong end of the rope. That old M9 lateral thinking finally kicks in.

Guest star Ian Hendry checks into a small Swiss hotel just as a deceased guest is carried out on a stretcher. So? Well, Drake is on the track of the dead man. Who was buried, then unburied and moved. Why? It's up to Drake to connect the dots.

A tense episode where the viewer is way ahead of Drake. Will he catch up before the bad guys get him?

And where does Wagner come in? Watch and see.

I like episodes with a solid mystery to be solved. And the ending (which I won't give away) is a classic.