Patrick McGoohan

it was great.

I do love Patrick McGoohan.

I've been, uh, really excited that "The Prisoner" is on the Criterion Channel recently.

I haven't watched any of it yet because I haven't had the time, but I do love that show and having, uh, good access to it again is always exciting.

There was...

I think it was in the Stephen Lack interview, um, which is the ephemeral files and also the drug being called ephemeral is very [chuckles] that's very Cronenberg to me.

Uh, but, uh, but I think it was the Stephen Lack interview where he talks about, uh, talking with Patrick McGoohan and McGoohan just ha- being like, "I have no idea what's going on.

I don't know what my motivations are."

I think they're almost kind of like a, a triptych.

I think they, there's a lot of, um, kind of visual parallels between them, and then also two of my favorite late '60s TV series, uh, The Avengers, probably my all-time favorite TV series ever, and, uh, The Prisoner, the great Patrick McGoohan.

And it is a really fascinating cerebral sci-fi film about a, a kind of, you know, m- very respected, maybe a little bit too smug doctor, uh, named Max Holst, and he's brought in to examine this kind of mysterious, slightly obnoxious man named Steinmetz, who, uh, is played by John Price in a really fantastic performance.

And Steinmetz claims that he can make objects appear through the power of his mind, and asks if the doctor will operate on him to expand this brain power of his, this kind of miraculous ability.

There's one on lava lamps by Bruce Clark called All You Need Is Lava and there's a chapter with Eric Mevel who edited the music for the majority of the series.

The last chapter is called The Sad and Fascinating Truth and is by Chris Rodley who wrote and produced the documentary Six into One The Prisoner File and it talks candidly about the challenges of making the documentary and the desire to please Patrick McGoohan which ultimately seems to have made no one happy.

This is the sort of stuff that would have been in a blog today and it has the beating heart of all the geeks who have loved and sought out The Prisoner at a time when both conversation about fandom and actually watching The Prisoner needed a lot more effort than it does today but also the articles are well written.

More to the point the content is actually gameable in parts with the various maps and plans and some really great photos.

Sixes and Sevens.

Number 6, played by Patrick McGoohan, was the main character in which 1960s spy drama? Ugh.

Uh, Catch 22.

Not Catch 22.

Question 21.

Sixes and Sevens.

Number 6, played by Patrick McGoohan-

Yeah

Talking about old people, uh, Richard Harris, uh, only agreed to be, uh, Albus Dumbledore after his seven-year-old granddaughter threatened never to speak to him ever again if he didn't do it.

But Patrick McGoohan was originally offered the role but had to turn it down due to health issues.

Richard Harris, you know, being a little bit on the old side, had trouble remembering his lines, so Daniel Radcliffe would actually help him with his lines by asking him to do practice runs with him.

Um-