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Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan, along with Israeli agents


Does anyone remember the episode that involved John Drake and Israeli agents - 2 men and 1 woman - that were hunting down a man that turned out to be an ex-Nazi and they wound up executing this man and Drake could do nothing to prevent it?

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Very good episode, too. Gritty and surprisingly even-handed for its era. The Nazi is clearly an ugly piece of work, but the three Israelis aren't glorified as heroes for their actions--and that was a pretty startling take to put on it during an era when Israel was seen as a totally righteous participant in a sort of David-and-Goliath situation, geopolitically speaking.

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I just scored a dvd of The Moonshine War, which I haven't seen in about thirty years (it's now available, finally, on the Warner Archive website). Not one of his best, but I can't wait to watch this again--I love anything he does, he's a wonderfully charismatic screen presence.

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"Judgement Day," from 1965. A typically excellent, if just a bit heavy-handed, episode from a series that kept its high standards until nearly the end.

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