Danger Man: Koroshi (1968)

Date of Original Broadcast: 5 January 1968
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: ITC
Executive Producer: Ralph Smart
Producer: Sidney Cole
Associate Producer: Barry Delmaine

SCRIPT
Script: Norman Hudis
Creator: Ralph Smart
Story Editor: George Markstein

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Truman
Assistant Director: Doug Hermes

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Brendan J. Stafford

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Lee Doig

MUSIC
Musical Director: Edwin Astley
Music Editor: Alan Killick

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Albert Witherick

LOCATIONS
Studio: Sheperton Studios, England, UK

CASTING
Casting Director: Rose Tobias Shaw

CAST
Patrick McGoohan (John Drake)
Yoko Tani (Ako Nakamura)
Amanda Barrie (Rosemary)
Ronald Howard (Sanders)
Burt Kwouk (Tanaka)
John Garrie (old Japanese man)
Jeremy Longhurst (Fortune)
Christopher Benjamin (Potter)
Lilani Young (Japanese granddaughter)

SUMMARY

A young Japanese woman investigating a sinister Japanese death cult dies when she inhales a poison gas released from an artificial flower. Drake is assigned to infiltrate the cult, posing as a journalist reporting on a flower festival.

TIMELINE

1968
January
5: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

June
5: USA - television broadcast

LINKS

SEQUEL
Danger Man: Shindu Shima (1968)

KEYWORDS

cults, espionage, gas, secret agents, spies

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009