User Reviews

This is one of those Danger Man / Secret Agent episodes where things do not appear as they are. John Drake is on a manhunt, but is he taking the investigation down the right path? In the end we of course find out.

This story also gives a glimpse as to how a small, tight knit community may behave when a stranger appears in its midst (in this case John Drake) and attempts to remove its leading citizen. Toward the end of the show the community is tempted to turn on our secret agent, but because Drake shows no fear (he rarely does), the situation does not escalate.

Keep your eyes on the character Magnus Sutherland -a man chock full of braggadocio and puritan values- who is endowed with some great lines of dialog. Sutherland is played by Nigel Green, who also appeared in the 1/2 hour Danger Man episode 'The Girl Who Liked GI's'. The actor is at his best here though, putting on a powerful Scottish Brogue and being quite the intimidating one.

Another return performance is put in by the lovely Francesca Annis, who we also saw in the brilliantly crafted 1 hour episode 'No Marks For Servility' (my personal favorite). Her character Sheila again falls for Drake. I first saw Francesca play the mother of Paul Atreides in the original 'Dune' movie.

Character Actor Finlay Currie, who guest starred in a 1/2 Danger Man called 'The Gallows Tree', is an interesting addition here because that earlier episode was based on the same premise of Drake seeking out a spy who was long thought to be dead. Finlay plays differing roles in the two installments however.

Finally, a pop quiz: See if you recognize the 'Angus McKinnon' character from one of the 1/2 hour episodes. Hint: he was sporting a beard in the earlier show.

I lived in Scotland (St Andrews) for one school year, and the old gray stone buildings shown in this episode certainly looked like Scotland to me! This episode had some good exterior scenes--always so nice to see, especially when one thinks of other ITC series where often you don't get so many exterior scenes as here. The sense of the rugged Scottish landscape comes through, though the episode notes don't indicate it was filmed on location. But they were someplace with sand dunes and a big dock and ocean.

A key point about this series: Patrick McGoogan is so serious and intense, it gives the whole series a strong feeling of reality. There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about this series. An interesting example of how a star can so influence a whole series which is built around him.

When top-secret documents are stolen from an atomic power plant in Scotland, fingerprints on a briefcase are found to belong to Jock Lawson, a dock worker who sold information to the Russians in WWII before disappearing. Drake travels to a small island to investigate, but will end up disrupting the lives of all the islanders.

That's Two of Us Sorry is a retread of the earlier 25 minute episode The Gallows Tree. This is much better, benefiting from the 50 minute runtime. There's a silly sub-plot about an illegal whisky still that seems shoehorned in.

The location shooting is nice and there's a great guest cast that includes Francesca Annis, Duncan Lamont, Nigel Green, Finlay Currie and Graham Crowden. Most of them are wasted in small roles, especially Francesca Annis.

However, there's various problems with the episode, such as why someone as stupid as Graham Crowden's character would be put in charge of security at a atomic plant. The revelation at the end of where the stolen documents were was silly as well.

Overall, not one of the best examples of the series, but it's entertaining.

Some excellent individual and ensemble acting. The ending can be forgiven: you could say it was an ending with a 'twist', albeit a silly one involving absent-mindedness. Resourceful location shooting around a priory on Anglesey, Wales, and some iconic Scots character actors really gave a sense of a Hebridean setting.

Drake trails a Soviet spy to a Scottish island. The trick, and a good one, is that, according to fingerprint evidence, the man he's looking for has been dead for twenty years.

I'm an American and know little about such things, but it seems to me an (exceptionally) lovely young Francisca Annis, whom I first caught in "Partners in Crime," does a fine sounding Scottish accent. The usually reliable Nigel Green, on the other hand, sounds like the lead speaker at a Burns dinner.

It's right out of Nancy Drew. A ruined castle, mysterious signaling, a subplot about a still and a small part for Graham Crowden. All stuff I like. But I can't build any excitement for this episode or feel sympathy for those who sell out the cause of freedom. One of the big lies about the Cold War was that there was some moral equivalency between the two sides. Read about what the Soviet Union was really like.

Still, gotta love Francisca. I'm glad she went on to such a fruitful career.