I don't often make a tribute post when a celebrity dies. It's not a conscious decision, it's just never really occurred to me before. But this week Patrick McGoohan, star and co-creator of the late 60s television series The Prisoner (among many, many other impressive credits), died at the age of 80. And so I'm posting.
The Prisoner has long been one of my favorite and most admired series. This series insisted on questioning and challenging the nature of identity and trust and government, and it did so with indubitable style, depth, intelligence, and a sense of humor.
I'm grateful to Patrick McGoohan for this television show, so unique in so many ways from any other before or since. And I like how this collection of clips from the show contains the essence of everything I love about it: From the style of the suits they wear to the way Patrick McGoohan's "Number Six" character seems to always be yelling at every woman he meets.
I don't know why, but that always cracks me up.
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I like how he whenever he punches some dude he looks like he has to pull his punchin' fist out of his pocket first
I like how he whenever he punches some dude he looks like he has to pull his punchin' fist out of his pocket first