Section 2: Production Details
Who wrote the episodes?
Different people wrote different episodes as was common in series of that time,
Common Writers were:
- Ian Stuart Black
- Jo Esinger
- Ralph Smart
- John Roddick
- David Stone (later series)
- Ray Clamens
Ray Clemens?!?
Yep, the same one of Avengers,New Avengers and Bugs fame (or infamy).
And Directors?
Pretty much the same as writers
Common directors were:
- Seth Holt
- Ralph Smart
- Peter Graham Scott
- Charles Frend
- Terry Bishop
So Ralph Smart did both ?
Yes, he was one of the few creators of an adventure series who remained with the show throughout it's life span and kept an active
part at that.
Why did the show finish
Well, by 1965 Patrick McGoohan was the most highly paid actor on British television. But.. there are now two versions of the story:
- Patrick McGoohan felt that the show was "running out of steam" and that they should finish while they were ahead.
- McGoohan was so smitten with a new idea for a television programme set in the village of Portmerion in North Wales that he was
going to put the entire Danger Man cast and crew to it.
Anyway the result was a meeting between McGoohan and Lew Grade and whatever the discussion entailed, it finished with the 4th
season of Danger Man being cancelled after only two shows and a new show called The Prisoner was comissioned.
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