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    'Prisoner' Legend Patrick McGoohan Dead at 80

    The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
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    Image of Ogiri W Surie Ogiri W Surie
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    And so he goes, from No. 6 to No. 6-feet-under. Great show, great actor.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    McGoohan also played against Peter Falk in two Columbo episodes and hit the ball so hard that it's still travelling. Those two dudes played off each other magically.
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    Image of jbk jbk
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Was the little butler a good guy or a bad guy? If memory serves, didn't he ride out of The Village with Number 6 in that truck in the final episode?
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    Image of The New No. 2 The New No. 2
    01/14/09

    @jbk: A lot of things happen in the final 2 episodes that really don't make a lot of linear sense.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/14/09

    @DanielMurphysLaw: Almost nothing was linear in the 60s. Some of those Avengers episodes were pretty damn strange.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Hey - it's the greatest tool to each Marxist Theory - ever!
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Come on people, you're all ignoring Patrick McGoohan's best and most famous role: SILVER STREAK!


    Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor and Patrick McGoohan as the villain (with a little help from the dude who played Jaws). Can't go wrong. That was my first exposure to him and I've seriously always remembered him for that role.

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    01/14/09

    @badasscat: Yeah I remember he called Richard Pryor the N word and Richard told him he'd slap the taste out his mouth. Classic stuff.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    I always wondered whether McGoohan's strict Catholicism, which led him to refrain from physical love scenes, also led him to fine common cause with rogue Catholic loon Mel Gibson, who gave him his last great role as Edward Longshanks.



    But perhaps I tread too close to defaming the memory of an actor whose work I admire greatly. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
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    Image of AuntPenny AuntPenny
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Oh no! I love Patrick McGoohan! Oh no! I'm going to go home and watch all the Prisoner episodes at once. Then all the Columbos he was in.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    The big balloons finally got him.
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    Image of SpyderD SpyderD
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Alas poor No. 6 I knew him not so well.


    McGoohan was the only actor to play 4 different murderers on Columbo.


    Patrick McNee played on The Avengers.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/14/09

    @SpyderD: Was it really four? I thought two. Two accomplished actors with similar impish grins playing hero and villain.
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    Image of zibby zibby
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    I always used to pull for Number 2, but then I always used to pull for Tom, Wile E. Coyote, and Sylvester. I guess I like lost causes.
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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    01/14/09

    @zibby: Me, I flush for Number 2.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    I always got Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner) confused with Patrick Macnee (The Avengers).


    They were different people, right?

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/14/09

    @MisterHippity: They were. Peter MacNicol and Kristy McNichol, however, are the same person. William Hurt and William Heard, different people. Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott, same.


    Hollywood is a very confusing place.

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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Be seeing you!


    Or not, actually.

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/14/09

    @Almostbanned: Yes, you will.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Who is Number 1?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    Some days you swallow the white blob, and some days the white blob swallows you.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    01/14/09

    In reply to The Prisoner's Number 6 Finally Escapes
    That's too bad. He was great in "The Prisoner" (and wrote several episodes, including the incredibly cool but incomprehensible series finale).


    And in addition to everything else, he was a perfect villain on several "Columbo" episodes.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/14/09

    @TedSez: I liked the episode where No. 6 ran for No. 2.


    I'd like a T-Shirt with the slogan: "Six For Two!"

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