GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Michael Thompson Man in a suitcase played superbly by Texan actor Richard Bradford was simply the best TV series in the mid 60's, and to-date in general Richard Bradford's big mistake though, was wanting to put a really human side to this character named simply, Mcgill.Richard Bradford wanted to do his own stunts and he wanted the stunt men to really hit him, he wanted things to be as authentic as possible.For this reason, he fell out with many stunt men on the Man In A Suitcase Set.And in my view this is why another series of Man in a Suitcase never materialised, and also because Richard Bradford's name went round, as a trouble maker, because he would not fall in line with the British status quo.

pantagruella Man in a Suitcase is a gem of a series. One series is all you get. Only thirty episodes. You will be wishing that somehow it had lasted longer. There can never be enough praise for the actor or the character he created. He gave it all he could, all he had, shackled by the constraints of an unprepared and inflexible British studio that did not know what they were dealing with. One feature is that McGill himself is so watchable in all his small actions and so few words. He is the guy who can make boredom look interesting. The recent DVD box set has an interview with Richard Bradford that is illuminating, especially to the fight scenes. I also recommend the GZR track, Man In A Suitcase, the Man in a Suitcase isn't like me and you. You can also hear plenty of that strange jazz music that often passed for the Swinging 60s in TV shows of the time.

ShadeGrenade When Patrick McGoohan abruptly left 'Danger Man' in 1966, the entire production team split in half - David Tomblin, George Markstein, and Don Chaffey followed him to Portmeirion to create the bizarre cult classic 'The Prisoner', while Sidney Cole, Barry Delmaine and John Glen set up a new show. Originally titled 'McGill', it was created by Dennis Spooner and Richard Harris, neither of whom had any further involvement.'Man In A Suitcase' was an unusual series from the I.T.C. stable, insofar that it had a hero who wasn't respected or admired, simply misunderstood. McGill had been a top U.S. agent who'd been sacked for his part in a spy scandal for which he was blameless, and had become a private eye based in London and Europe.Richard Bradford made 'McGill' harder than the heroes generally found on television at that time ( he chain smoked for one thing ) while the scripts were of a high standard, particularly 'The Whisper', 'Variation On A Million Bucks', 'Dead Man's Shoes', 'Day Of Execution', and 'Web With Four Spiders'. The guest-stars included John Gregson, Colin Blakely ( twice ), Edward Fox, Simon Williams, Rodney Bewes, Stuart Damon, Judy Geeson, Jacqueline Pearce, Patrick Cargill and Darren Nesbitt.It is rumoured that some scripts were left overs from 'Danger Man'. 'The Boston Square' and 'Night Flight To Andorra' look as though they could have fitted into that series, while 'The Bridge' is more like an episode of A.B.C.'s 'The Human Jungle'. 'Jigsaw Man' was the only 'Suitcase' adventure to play for laughs.Unlike the bloodless fights seen in 'The Saint', 'Suitcase' actually showed McGill getting hurt and, in a couple of instances, beaten senseless. By depicting the world of espionage in a realistic light, the show was slightly ahead of its time. It was a '70's show made in the '60's. Ron Grainer's theme tune is one of his best too!Of all the I.T.C. action shows made in the mid-to-late '60's, 'Man In a Suitcase' was the most deserving of a second series.

McGill fan I love this series because in my opinion, it is one of the best action/adventure series to come out of the ITC stable in the 1960s. Vastly under-rated, the series was in some ways groundbreaking in that the 'hero' of the show did not always come out on top, making it all the more realistic.