Number Six’s Final Escape

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Patrick McGoohan, who created and stared in The Prisoner, died yesterday at age 80. Although only seventeen episodes were made of this miniseries in 1967, McGoohan will always be best known for his role of Number Six.  He played a spy (loosely based upon his role in his previous series, Danger Man) who was apprehended and taken to The Village after he attempted to resign. The series remains one of the best television works to examine the theme of the individual versus authority, and is currently being reimagined as a new miniseries to be aired on AMC. In preparation for their new miniseries, AMC has the original series available on line here.

McGoohan also won two Emmys for his appearances on Columbo, and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart.

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