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834. UK, Oct. 1960

Jim got #833!

The TriviaHound is excited to present the birth of the spy genre.


One of the best things to come out of the Cold War was the espionage programs. Whoever your favorite secret agent man (or woman) might be, you can thank the UK for starting the snowball's roll with this show. It premiered last month. It won't do well in the US until a relaunch in the mid-60s with an ultra-cool theme song by Johnny Rivers.

| posted by John, 5:09 PM

3 Comments:

Patrick McGoohan played the original Danger Man which later became Secret Agent.
Blogger Jim, at 7:22 PM  
Right! Some argue that The Prisoner was a sequel to Secret Agent. Mcgoohan denied that, though not very convincingly.
Blogger John, at 11:22 PM  
I think The Prisoner was quite different. It had that Orwellian framework with those weird balloons that would round up anyone trying to escape. Awfully silly, really.
Blogger Jim, at 6:42 AM  

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