GOODBYE, NUMBER SIX. And thanks for all those endless trippy conversations about what your show meant, and for those hangover dreams of being chased by a big white ball.
Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner, dies at 80.
McGoohan, who was born in New York but raised in England and Ireland, came to screen prominence in ITV's early 1960s drama series Danger Man, in which he played a secret agent.
He was also considered for the lead role in the first James Bond movie, Dr No, before Sean Connery was cast.
However, it was The Prisoner, which aired originally on ITV between 1967 and 1968, with which he was chiefly associated, writing some of the episodes himself under a different name.
His character, Number Six, spent the entire time attempting to escape from a prison – which was disguised as a holiday camp – and trying to find out the identity of his captor, the elusive Number One. He repeatedly declared: "I am not a number - I am a free man!"
Puts a bit of a bittersweet torque on this, doesn't it?
1 comment:
An all-time great show. Way ahead of its time and probably created all of us boomer writers. Who is number one. You always will be, number six.
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