amctv.com - 1/16/2009
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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 ...
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The Prisoner Classic Series 1967 - 68
sfgate.com - 1/14/2009
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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
latimes.com - 1/14/2009
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It was the height of James Bond mania
in 1965 when McGoohan showed up on American TV...
screens in "Secret Agent," a British-produced series in which he played John Drake, a special security agent working as a spy for the British government. The ...
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Patrick McGoohan, TV's 'Secret Agent' and 'Prisoner,' ...
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My favorite Villager moves on
Corrente —
RIP, Patrick McGoohan.
The world just got a lot less cool.
Patrick McGoohan RIP:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
As has been noted elsewhere Patrick McGoohan, 80, died a few days ago. Number 6 McGoohan achieved cult status as Number 6 on the short-lived series, The Prisoner. I watched the series in first run--as I recall as a summer replacement series. I found it awesome at the time up ("I am not a number; I am a free man!") until its greatly disappointing finale. After that, I watched it in reruns a bit and did still like it. One of the things I loved best about the show was its opening theme, which I remember recording on a 5" reel-to-real tape recorder. Now we have YouTube: But I was a bigger fan of his role as secret agent John Drake. I watched him in the American ...
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