Thursday 15 January 2009

Number Six Is Dead

Patrick McGoohan died this week after a short illness at the age of 80, although he appeared in several TV series and films he will always be the remembered as the character of Number Six from the cult sixties series The Prisoner.

The title sequence gives you the whole back story, secret agent resigns angrily and drives home to pack (in a Lotus 7 – a real classic car with incredible handling and amazing acceleration; a petrol head's dream car still being made today by Caterham).

He is then gassed and wakes up in a pretty holiday village where he is now referred to as Number Six and they try to extract information from him while he tries to escape.

Enough writing, here is the intro:

2 comments:

Sezme said...

My first introduction to the series was via Iron Maiden's song, "The Prisoner".

A few years ago, either BBC America or a local public television station aired the show for a while. I really liked watching it.

It seems a lot of talented people are leaving us.

DBA Dude said...

rt, The series was a really big cult hit over here - must try to find a DVD box set.

Yep, another one of our fine writers also passed on last week.