Editing Patrick McGoohan (section)

===''Danger Man''===
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Production executive [[Lew Grade]] soon approached McGoohan about a television series where he would play a spy named [[John Drake (Danger Man)|John Drake]]. Having learned from his experience at Rank, McGoohan insisted on several conditions: all the fistfights should be different; the character would always use his brain before using a gun; and—much to the executives' horror—no kissing. The show debuted in 1960 as ''[[Danger Man]]'',<ref name="CBS_News">{{cite news |date=January 14, 2009 |title='Prisoner' Star Patrick McGoohan Dies |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prisoner-star-patrick-mcgoohan-dies/ |access-date=January 15, 2009}}</ref> a half-hour programme intended for American audiences. It did fairly well, but not as well as hoped.<ref>Vincent Cosgrove, 2007. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/arts/television/15cosg.html "Odds Are He Will Live on Disc Tomorrow,"] ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 15. Retrieved 4-7-10.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47210914 |title='Danger Man'|newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=29 |issue=7 |date=July 19, 1961 |access-date=October 15, 2017 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Production lasted a year and 39 episodes. After the first series was over, an interviewer asked McGoohan if he would have liked it to continue. He replied, "Perhaps, but let me tell you this: I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago and for which I blame no one but myself."<ref>"Why ''Danger Man'' scared me", ''Photoplay'', April 1961, p. 14.</ref>