Someone recently brought this particular blog to my attention. Sloan’s account is a little off-date because the hour-long episodes of Danger Man appeared in April/May of 1965 and the “Secret Agent Man” song was heading them up then, so it must have been composed through late ’64/early ’65.

I guess it only became a hit record in 1966 because CBS carried the show over from being a summer filler to being part of their Fall Line-up in 1965 and then networked a further 20-plus episodes. Once part og their main season however It did not get good Nielsen numbers and by February of 1966 was being noted as going to be droppped again by CBS. This seems to have been what prompted Patrick McGoohan to suggest to Grade that they try a new show for sale to the Americans – and that of course became The Prisoner. Ironic that the Nielsen numbers, which were then still quite a new innovation, led to the mantra, “I Am Not A Number!”

Thankx for the kind blog elsewhere, btw …. Be seeing you.