Who created the popular 'Danger Man' (released as 'Secret Agent' in the United States) television series of the 1960's?

Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts.

'Danger Man' (titled 'Secret Agent' in the United States, and 'Destination Danger and John Drake' in other non-UK markets) is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured British actor Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.

'Danger Man' was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

Ralph Smart was born to Australian parents in the London suburb of Chingford, some ten miles northeast of Charing Cross. He began his professional career in films as an editor, writer and director of documentary shorts in 1927. His best known contribution came about in the 1960's, when he created the action series Danger Man (1960) and its incorruptible lone wolf protagonist John Drake, played brilliantly by Patrick McGoohan.

After the show was cancelled in 1966, Smart returned to working as a freelance screenwriter on the short-lived Australian-based series 'Riptide' (1969), starring American actor Ty Hardin.

Smart settled down in the small town of Bowen, which is in Queensland, Australia, and died there in February 2001 at the venerable age of 92.