One of the leading stars of British television of the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for played The Prisoner’s title character Number Six in the surreal 1960s show filmed in Portmeirion in Wales.
AMC is currently sharing all 17 episodes of The Prisoner in effort to promote the upcoming remake in miniseries form. After watching the first 2 episodes of the original series, I can’t imagine how AMC could improve upon what’s already there.
Be seeing you.
“The Prisoner” was more than an idea, of course: It was an idea personified, and while it’s fair to say that its artistic success was the lucky product of the work of many hands, it was McGoohan who made the series work. (That is perhaps why I am not yet more excited about AMC’s coming remake, set to premiere sometime this year.) It was, metaphorically, his own story, having quit “Secret Agent” at the height of its success because it no longer suited him to play that role.
