The roaming weather balloon finally caught him.
Be Seeing You: remembering Patrick McGoohan
He was definitely not a number, but nor was he really a free man. To older readers, Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80 in Los Angeles after a short illness, was king of the British TV airwaves, initially as secret agent Danger Man – one of the first British TV productions to break America (largely thanks to the popularity of James Bond). He also had a few big-screen roles, in movies like Escape From Alactraz, Braveheart and David Cronenberg's Scanners. But McGoohan's finest moment, for which he deserves to be remembered as long as people are watching moving images on little boxes, was undoubtedly the Prisoner – the psychedelically experimental late-1960s series whose influence is still tangible, but whose vision was far too radical for its time.
Brilliant series. Brilliant performance by
Number 6 McGoohan.
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Considering that a big-budget modern Hollywood adaptation is in the works (no doubt with lots of explosions and a happy ending), he may have chosen a good time to quit the stage. The show was so incredibly good - and it's hard to imagine a remake could do it justice.
Be seeing you.
We want INFORMATION.
https://www.play-digital.com/trance-19/hujaboy-in-the-village-158376.htm
(You have to click "play track" once that loads.)
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