"fearful of his growing influence in the Village, takes drastic measures that threaten the lives of Number Six, Number Two, and the rest of the Village. A major theme of the series is individualism, as represented by Number Six, versus collectivism, as represented by Number Two and the others in the Village. McGoohan stated that the series aimed to demonstrate a balance between the two points. Actors who played the same role in more than one episode are: McGoohan was the only actor credited during the opening sequence, with Angelo Muscat the only actor considered a 'co-star' of the series."
"Patrick McGoohan Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, and relocated to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British 1960s television series ""Danger Man"" (US: ""Secret Agent"") and the surreal psychological drama ""The Prisoner"", which he co-created. McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, the son of Rose (Fitzpatrick) and Thomas McGoohan, who were living in the United States after emigrating from"
"A. B. and C. ""A. B. and C."" is the title of the third episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, ""The Prisoner"". It originally aired in the UK on ITV on 13 October 1967 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on 22 June 1968. The episode stars Patrick McGoohan in the character of Number 6 and features as Number 2 Colin Gordon – the only actor other than Leo McKern who would play Number 2 in more than one episode. Number Two is directed by Number One to step up efforts to extract information from"
"a war against Germany and was born on 19 March 1928 (which is also McGoohan's birthday). The flashback setup in ""Once Upon a Time"" suggests that Number Six was a bomber crewman, most likely with RAF Bomber Command. His seated position relative to the pilot (portrayed in illusion by Number Two) indicates that he was a bombardier/navigator. In the episode ""Many Happy Returns"" he claims that his name is ""Peter Smith"" and expects it to appear on his house lease and car log book. In the episode ""Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"" the Prisoner, in another man's body,"
"more have riffed directly or indirectly off of ""The Prisoner""."" ""Continuing interest in ""The Prisoner"" can be seen in television shows created long after 1967"" The Prisoner in popular culture The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological drama. Since its debut, the series' enduring popularity has led to its influencing and being referenced in a range of other media, such as the film ""The Truman Show"", and the television"
"of the actor was first published in 2007 by Tomahawk Press, with a further biography published in 2011 by Supernova Books. Patrick McGoohan Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, and relocated to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British 1960s television series ""Danger Man"" (US: ""Secret Agent"") and the surreal psychological drama ""The Prisoner"", which he co-created. McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens,"
"The Prisoner in popular culture The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological drama. Since its debut, the series' enduring popularity has led to its influencing and being referenced in a range of other media, such as the film ""The Truman Show"", and the television shows ""Lost"" and ""The X-Files"". The producer of ""The X-Files"" called ""The Prisoner"" ""the ""Gone with the Wind"" of its genre."" ""The Guardian"" wrote that"
"working on ""Man in a Suitcase"", he became stunt coordinator on ""Department S"" and ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"". Following his work on ""Danger Man"", he again doubled for Patrick McGoohan in 1966-67 in the TV series ""The Prisoner"". He had a particularly large role in the episode ""The Schizoid Man"", which required a doppelganger of McGoohan’s Number Six character to have a lot of screen time alongside the ""real"" Number Six. He also appeared as “Third Gunman” in ""The Prisoner"" western/cowboy style episode ""Living in Harmony"". He claimed to have suggested the idea of having a western/cowboy style episode to"
"he likely offered. His existence in ""The General"" may perhaps be explained as indeed, a 'one-time' reprieve. However, as ""The General"" was produced before ""A. B. and C."", this is reflected in the alternative episode orders created by Prisoner enthusiasts for narrative flow and logical chronology. A. B. and C. ""A. B. and C."" is the title of the third episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, ""The Prisoner"". It originally aired in the UK on ITV on 13 October 1967 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on 22 June 1968. The episode stars Patrick McGoohan"
"1973) and Goneril (""King Lear"", Stratford and London, 1974). Allen appeared with Patrick McGoohan in an episode of ""Danger Man"" (""Don't Nail Him Yet"", 1964), before her guest role in ""The Prisoner"" (1967). In the episode ""A. B. and C."", the third episode of the series, Allen was Number 14, a scientist who was one of many who failed in ""the Village"" to elicit from Number 6 (McGoohan) why he had resigned from a certain organisation. She was pressed by Number 2 (Colin Gordon) to use a new wonder drug and archive film to influence her subject's dreams, but he"
"him a run-down of what would later be called a miniseries, about a secret agent who resigns suddenly and wakes up to find himself in a prison disguised as a holiday resort. Grade asked for a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to produce ""The Prisoner"". Apart from being the star of ""The Prisoner"", McGoohan was the executive producer, forming Everyman Films with series producer David Tomblin, and also wrote and directed several episodes, in some cases using pseudonyms. The originally commissioned seven episodes became seventeen. The title"
"head man or whatever they call him in Bond; and of course it wasn't about that at all. It was about the most evil human 'being', human 'essence'; and that is ourselves, because within each of us, that is the most dangerous thing on Earth, is what is within us. And so therefore that's what I made No. 1: One's 'self', an image of himself that he was trying to beat."" McGoohan planted clues to this throughout the series, including the Prisoner's residence in London bearing the numeral ""1"" on the door, and that the phrasing of No. 2's response"
"an ending for the series, came to him admitting that he was unable to come up with an ending. The biggest problem was revealing the identity of Number One, which, as McGoohan and various other crew members admitted, had not been decided on prior to the writing of the final episode's script. According to the book ""The Prisoner"" by Robert Fairclough, McGoohan was informed that production was cancelled on the series immediately following filming of the preceding episode ""The Girl Who Was Death"" and was given only a week to write a finale to conclude the storyline started in ""Once"
"that Drake cannot allow himself to become involved with anyone due to his line of work; this is graphically illustrated in the American version of the opening credits which depict a female form being separated from Drake by a set of bars. It is a common belief among McGoohan's fans that the character of Number Six in ""The Prisoner"", the show that McGoohan did after ""Danger Man"", was meant to be Drake; McGoohan denied this but his co-creator of ""The Prisoner"", George Markstein, claimed otherwise. The debate over the identity of Number Six stems from references in dialogue to the"
"to both Fairclough and Kenneth Griffith himself, McGoohan was so pressed for time that the actor was asked to write his own dialogue. While Leo McKern's Number Two is the same character that previously appeared, Kanner's Number 48 is almost certainly a different character from those he played in ""Living in Harmony"" (where his character in fact dies) and ""The Girl Who Was Death"", but it is unclear whether Griffith's character is the same one that was the Number Two in the latter episode. It was, however, not unusual in ""The Prisoner"" for actors to play different characters in different"
"the comic strip. In 2000, he reprised his role as Number Six in an episode of ""The Simpsons"", ""The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"". In it, Homer Simpson concocts a news story to make his website more popular, and he wakes up in a prison disguised as a holiday resort. Dubbed Number Five, he meets Number Six, and later betrays him and escapes with his boat; referencing his numerous attempts to escape on a raft in ""The Prisoner"", Number Six splutters ""That's the third time that's happened!"" McGoohan's last film role was as the voice of Billy Bones in the animated"
"Boys, like their fathers, were never given any personal names by Carl Barks but was instead referred to by their prison numbers, which starts with ""176-"" and ends on a permutation of the numbers 1, 6 and 7, which allows six different combinations. This tradition was first established in Barks' ""The Menehune Mystery"" (Uncle Scrooge #4, December 1953), while the Beagle Boys in previous stories, and some of them in ""The Menehune Mystery,"" instead had their prison numbers as ""176-"" followed by random digits (except in their first story, where they have no prison numbers). However, in a few of"
"reprised his role as Number Six. In the DVD commentary for the episode, Payne said that McGoohan was ""very funny"", and that all the writers wanted to meet him when he came to record his dialogue for the episode. McGoohan was reportedly very pleased with his role in the episode; when his wife Joan McGoohan, who is a real estate broker, helped staff writer Max Pross buy a house, she told him that Patrick McGoohan was as proud of the episode as anything in his career. ""The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"" makes fun of use of the Internet, which was"
"Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling ""Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"" is the thirteenth episode of the British science fiction-allegorical television series, ""The Prisoner"". It was first broadcast by ITV (ATV Midlands) on 22 December 1967. Produced while Patrick McGoohan was in America filming ""Ice Station Zebra"", the writers worked around McGoohan's absence by having Number Six's mind implanted in the body of another man (Nigel Stock), who is then sent out of the Village to help capture a scientist. As a result, McGoohan appears in the episode for only a couple of minutes. The episode title,"
"Number Two (The Prisoner) Number Two was the title of the chief administrator of The Village in the 1967-68 British television series ""The Prisoner"". More than 17 different actors appeared as holders of the office during the 17-episode series (some episodes featured more than one ""Number Two"", most notably ""It's Your Funeral"" which featured two Number Twos in major roles and images of two others). In the 2009 reboot series, Number 2 was played by Ian McKellen, the character being referred to simply as ""Two"". The first episode, ""Arrival"", established that the person assigned to the position is frequently changed."
"a few repeating actors beyond McGoohan, and certain specific connections in various episodes. McGoohan had originally wanted to produce only seven episodes of ""The Prisoner"", but Grade argued more shows were necessary in order for him to successfully sell the series to CBS. The exact number which was agreed to, along with how the series ended, is disputed by different sources. In an August 1967 article, Dorothy Manners reported that CBS had asked McGoohan to produce 36 segments, but he would agree to produce only 17. According to a 1977 interview, Lew Grade requested 26 episodes; McGoohan thought this would"
"as before. The music was re-recorded for this version of the ident and lasted for the rest of the programme's run. McGoohan resigned from the series, forcing its cancellation. He created a new project titled ""The Prisoner"", with David Tomblin as co-producer and George Markstein as script editor. Markstein was then the ""Danger Man"" script consultant. A number of behind-the-scenes personnel on ""Danger Man"" were subsequently hired for ""The Prisoner"". An unused, fourth-series script was reworked as an episode of ""The Champions"". ""Prisoner"" fans frequently debate whether John Drake of ""Danger Man"" and Number Six in ""The Prisoner"" are the"
"generally agreed to have been written by Markstein, setting out an overview of the themes of the series, was published as part of an ITC/ATV press book in 1967. It has usually been accepted that this text originated earlier as a guide for the series writers. Further doubt has been cast on Markstein's version of events by author Rupert Booth in his biography of McGoohan, entitled ""Not A Number"". Booth points out that McGoohan had outlined the themes of ""The Prisoner"" in a 1965 interview, long before Markstein's tenure as script editor on the brief fourth season of ""Danger Man""."
"stuck in Patrick McGoohan's mind, because that's where he shot his television series ""The Prisoner"" much later. The second unit director on the pilot, according to Clemens: ... shot some location and background stuff and sent the dailies back to the editing room at Elstree. Ralph Smart looked at them, hated them, and called up the second unit director and said ""Look, these are terrible, you'll never be a film director,"" and then he fired him. The name of the second unit director? John Schlesinger. The series succeeded in Europe, making McGoohan famous. However, when American financing for a second"
"Leo McKern, Mary Morris and Peter Wyngarde were the only Number Two actors whose voices featured in the title sequences of the episodes in which they appeared. The openings of ""Arrival"", ""Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"", ""Living in Harmony"" and ""Fall Out"" did not include dialogue. In the title sequences of the remaining seven episodes the voice of Number Two was that of Robert Rietti. With the death of Peter Wyngarde in 2018, Derren Nesbitt and Rachel Herbert are the only surviving actors to have portrayed the character. Number Two (The Prisoner) Number Two was the title of"
"milk float driver or that he was in on the switch. Additionally, the Colonel says, ""You're a stubborn fellow, Number Six""; it is also left ambiguous whether he is genuinely joking or he is actually subtly hinting that he is also in on the deception. In this episode Patrick Cargill plays the character of Thorpe. In the previous episode in production, Hammer into Anvil, he portrays a particularly cruel Number Two. It was common practice during production of The Prisoner to reuse actors to save time and because they were known to be reliable. In this case, it could be"
"receive his usual executive producer credit; in ""The Girl Who Was Death"" it is replaced with a large ""Patrick McGoohan as The Prisoner"" credit, but here his name appears onscreen only as writer/director. At the time ""Fall Out"" was first broadcast there were only three television channels available in the UK and it was claimed that the long-awaited final episode of the series had one of the largest ever viewing audiences yet seen. However, this seems unlikely given that, like other ITC programmes, the show was screened in the various ITV regions at varying times on varying days, i.e. it"
"Number Six (Battlestar Galactica) Number Six is a family of fictional characters from the reimagined science fiction television series ""Battlestar Galactica"". She is portrayed by Canadian actress and model Tricia Helfer. Of the twelve known Cylon models, she is the sixth of the ""Significant Seven"". Like the others of the ""Significant Seven"", there are several versions of her, including Caprica-Six, Shelly Godfrey, Gina Inviere, Natalie Faust, Lida, and Sonja. She is the only model that does not use one particular human alias for all copies. The character was named after Number Six, Patrick McGoohan's character from the show ""The Prisoner""."
"is described as being an Irish American. In this series he's an operative working for a branch of NATO. In the second series (1964–66), Drake speaks with a less pronounced accent that is more British with Irish undertones which was McGoohan's natural accent. In this later version, he works for a fictional British secret service branch called M9; no further reference is made to him being American. He is now said to be British, except in one episode in which he identifies himself as being Irish. In both versions of the series, Drake is depicted as something of a lone"
"block of thirteen episodes. A glimpse of Markstein's face remained in the opening credits, but it was without him that McGoohan took the series to its most surreal and existential levels in the final four episodes, and its bizarre conclusion. After ""The Prisoner"", Markstein joined the new Thames Television, initially as an in-house script editor, then as story editor for the first series of a counter-espionage drama ""Special Branch"" (1969); the third and final fourth series of spy drama ""Callan"" (1970, 1972); several episodes of ""Armchair Theatre"" (1969, 1971); and the first series of ""The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes"" (1971)."
"with the same constraint of Patrick McGoohan's limited availability. The beginning is similar, with Number Two meeting the Colonel, here named Oscar, the man whose body Number Six's mind will occupy. But in this earlier draft of the story, Number Six awakens in his flat in a furious mood, storming to his office to angrily resign. Only at the office does he realize that his appearance is not his own and that a year of his life is missing. Fearing that this is a ploy to force him to reveal confidential information, Six leaves the office, determined to find ""Saltzman"""
"that he was never given any information regarding what the yet-to-be-broadcast series was about, and thus played New Number Two in a state of confusion. Andre ends her comments by stating she did not enjoy her time on the programme, while a crewmember expresses his belief that McGoohan, under creative pressure, experienced a nervous breakdown during the filming of this episode. It's Your Funeral ""It's Your Funeral"" is a television episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, ""The Prisoner"". It was first broadcast on 8 December 1967. In this episode, a young successor to Number 2 plots to assassinate the"
"his decision to leave ""Danger Man"", Markstein edited the basic ideas that McGoohan had worked on since 1962 that became ""The Prisoner"" series, co-created and starring McGoohan. Together with producer David Tomblin and the star McGoohan (uncredited), Markstein co-wrote the first story ""Arrival,"" and then settled in as script editor for the series. He later described the job of story editor as ""the key man in any series, he is the man in whose hands is the ethos of the series, the spirit of the series, and it is his job to cast the writers and the authors the way"