amctv.com - 1/16/2009
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About This Website Watch The Full Episodes The Prisoner , created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein, follows a former British Secret agent who is held captive in "the Village" by mysterious authorities who want to know why he has resigned his position. The series ran for seventeen ...
sfgate.com - 1/14/2009
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sfgate.com —
McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a
short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said....
McGoohan won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama "Columbo," and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in ...
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'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA
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We’ll Miss You, Ricardo
The Sundries Shack —
... and his dignity would be intact. He also seemed to project self-amusement and self-awareness, no? Something wry and fatalistic about the fellow, but content. Lileks also talks about Patrick McGoohan, who also died this week. McGoohan was the star of The Prisoner, easily the quirkiest television show that didn’t directly involve David Lynch. I never did get into the show; it was mostly in syndication and showed at odd times when I was a teenager. However, I’m thinking that I might. AMC has put all the episodes of the show online so there’s really no excuse for my not doing ...
Be seeing you, Number 6
BatesLine —
... in Spy Kids 2 and 3, movies my kids have watched over and over again. By that time, a spinal injury from the '50s was causing him so much pain that he was confined to a wheelchair, and he appeared in the wheelchair in both films. But in Spy Kids 3, in which the characters wind up in a video game, director Robert Rodriguez used the magic of CGI to put Montalban back on his own two feet. As we get closer to the debut of AMC's new version of The Prisoner , starring Jim Caviezel, the network has placed all 17 of the original episodes on its website for streaming, along with photos ...
The Prisoner online
Corrente —
Free (er, legally). Read more…
Prisoners
LewRockwell.com Blog —
... If you loved 1984, Enemy of the State, V for Vendetta, The Matrix trilogy, (the state cannot tell you who you are) and other anti-government dystopias, this is your show. Be sure to go back and watch the original series in 1967, my cable co is showing them all free on demand. If you do not find it there, you can also watch it online via the same website above or linked here. ...
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