He joins the station as Johnny Drake - 'JD your DJ', and immediately falls foul of the management by asking too many questions about the operation of the station. A woman is wanted by the British authorities on charges of espionage. Drake travels to the Middle East to find her and retrieve her passport.

Airdates are for ATV Midlands. ATV London broadcast on 19 February and 26 February 1967 respectively. A young woman is found wandering in a dazed condition along a lonely road in a Balkan state. She provides Drake with a clue to the mystery surrounding the attempted assassination of the country’s president.

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A U.S. Diplomat has been forced to live within the walls of his embassy for five years, denied egress by the host country. Drake convinces a concert pianist to impersonate the diplomat, in an attempt to win his freedom. Drake takes the place of an ex-convict recruited as an assassin by an organisation which believes its mission is to eliminate undesirable world leaders (identified in the episode as the Knights Templar). When sent on his first assignment, Drake allows his victim to escape, revealing his identity. If I have a criticism it is that once Drake arrives at the sea fort it is fairly obvious what is going on. I have another criticism which is the bizarre choice of the Blue Danube Waltz to signal that they are signalling. It is completely off genre from the other music. If you like the records played on the radio station, you can find details of them here. Travelling to Nice, Drake sits next to a man he recognises as an assassin. Drake takes his place, but who is the victim?

The re-issued version of the Megadeth album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985), shows a stylized Vic Rattlehead skull on top of crossed swords and crossed bones. This was based on Mustaine's original drawing for the cover which the band did not have enough money to produce at the time. A diplomatic satchel is stolen by bandits when a plane crashes off the coast of Sicily. Drake must deal with the bandits to retrieve the satchel. Simpson, Andy (3 January 2014). Why Would Anyone Want to Swing a Cat?: ... and 499 other questions. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd. pp.163–64. ISBN 978-1849019477. A groom accused of murder and awaiting execution in the Far East is a pawn in a power struggle between the country's Prime Minister and Defence Minister. All is not what it seems.During the Vietnam war an urgent airfield was needed at Quảng Trị by the United States forces. U.S. Seabee Battalions 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 74, 121, and 133 all sent detachments of men and equipment to get the job done. Construction of the airfield necessitated the removal of 11,000 graves. Those detachments dubbed themselves the Ghost Battalion and chose the Jolly Roger for the Battalion's colours. [63] Botting, p. 49, Konstam, p. 98; Frank Sherry, Raiders and Rebels, New York: Hearst Marine Books, 1986, ISBN 0-688-04684-3, illustrated p. 97, ascribed p. 98.

VOC-Glossarium" (PDF) (in Dutch). Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 2000 . Retrieved 29 July 2021. Three distinct U.S. Naval Aviation squadrons have used the name and insignia of the Jolly Roger: VF-17/VF-5B/VF-61, VF-84, and VF-103, since redesignated as VFA-103. While these are distinctly different squadrons that have no lineal linkage, they all share the same Jolly Roger name, the skull and crossbones insignia and traditions. Williamson, Gordon (2007). U-Boats Vs Destroyer Escorts: The Battle of the Atlantic. Duel Series. Vol.3. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-133-5. Drake has a surprise when he receives a telephone call from an old enemy named Miguel Torres. Torres asks for Drake's help in preventing an assassination.

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In Munich, Drake investigates the murder of a G.I. and makes a date with his German girlfriend. Is she an innocent or a spy? I've recently added the TV Times covers and listings for each week that the fifty-minute episodes of Danger Man and The Prisoner were on air. For a start the human chameleon John Drake becomes the cool DJ Johnny Drake, or JD. How cool is that? Jeff Smart has released a documentary he made some years ago entitled "The Dangermen" it includes interviews with Peter Price, Philip Broadley and Frank Maher. More information can be found here In September 1914, the British submarine HMS E9 successfully torpedoed the German cruiser SMS Hela. [47] Remembering Wilson's statements, commanding officer Max Horton instructed his submariners to manufacture a Jolly Roger, which was flown from the submarine as she entered port. [46] [47] Each successful patrol saw Horton's submarine fly an additional Jolly Roger until there was no more room for flags, at which point Horton had a large Jolly Roger manufactured, onto which symbols indicating E9 's achievements were sewn. [47] A small number of other submarines adopted the practice: [47] HMS E12 flew a red flag with the skull and crossbones on return from a foray into the Dardanelles in June 1915, [48] and the first known photograph of the practice was taken in July 1916 aboard HMS H5. [49]