{"id":4436,"date":"2009-01-15T23:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2009-01-17T01:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T01:12:36","slug":"patrick-mcgoohan-interview-from-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/15\/patrick-mcgoohan-interview-from-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McGoohan Interview from 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick McGoohan<\/a><\/strong> passed away recently<\/a> and although his film career included such diverse roles as\u00a0\u00a0Ice Station Zebra<\/a>,\u00a0Escape from Alcatraz<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Braveheart<\/a>, for me he will always stand for his work on 1960s TV series The Prisoner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is the classic intro:<\/p>\n

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If you have never seen it, then you should buy the DVD boxset<\/a> for it is one of the most inventive and distinctive TV shows of its era.<\/p>\n

It follows a former British spy who, after resigning, is held captive in a mysterious small village by the sea by an unidentified organisation.<\/p>\n

Each of the 17 episodes saw the unnamed prisoner, labelled Number Six<\/a>, trying to escape or challenge the authority of ‘the Village’<\/a>\u00a0and its\u00a0chief administrator, a person usually called\u00a0Number Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although he was the star McGoohan also created the series with\u00a0George Markstein<\/a>\u00a0and deserves great credit for fashioning such an unusual and groundbreaking show.<\/p>\n

It has influenced many films and TV shows, most notably\u00a0Lost<\/a>,\u00a0The Truman Show<\/a>\u00a0and even Big Brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out this interview from 1977 where Magoohan discusses the show with\u00a0Warner Troyer:
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Part 2:
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Part 3:
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Part 4:
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You can also check out a documentary called Be Seeing You<\/strong> and Part 1 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Patrick McGoohan<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Buy The Prisoner on DVD from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick McGoohan passed away recently and although his film career included such diverse roles as\u00a0\u00a0Ice Station Zebra,\u00a0Escape from Alcatraz\u00a0and\u00a0Braveheart, for me he will always stand for his work on 1960s TV series The Prisoner. This is the classic intro: \u00a0 If you have never seen it, then you should buy the DVD boxset for it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[751,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}