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Premise. The series follows Number Six (Patrick McGoohan), an unnamed British intelligence agent who, after abruptly and angrily resigning from his highly sensitive government job, prepares to go on a trip. While packing his luggage, he is rendered unconscious by knockout gas piped into his home in Westminster.
Interior scenes were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 5 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968. [5]
Jun 14, 2018 · If you have seen The Prisoner and have always wondered what is the meaning of it all, Patrick McGoohan answers many of those questions. Breaking it down to its most simplistic level, The Prisoner’s basic plot involves a government intelligence agent (played by McGoohan) who has resigned his position for reasons unknown.
Oct 25, 1985 · The series ran 17 episodes, and mixed James Bond-type thriller elements with a half-baked allegory on The Role of the Individual in Mass Society. The show is confusing partly because there was a struggle between McGoohan and story editor George Markstein for creative control.
Oct 13, 2018 · If done today this would be just a gimmick, but back then this was daring and the almost da-daesque approach marked yet another technique of experimental theater brought to broadcast television by The Prisoner. Not in an anthology series format but as part of a continuing storyline.
Gimmicks like this are rather appropriate for Danger Man, considering his was the forerunner to the gimmick filled James Bond films. McGoohan's character had an arsenal of special spy gear, much of which is featured in the Danger Man card set.
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Apr 17, 2023 · McGoohan and his collaborators have variously said that the main character in The Prisoner is or is not McGoohan’s intelligence agent from Danger Man. It doesn’t really matter, but is more fun ...
