Actor director writer producer Patrick McGoohan has died at the age of 80. (News story here.) In fond remembrance, I resurrect this essay — the only one I’ve done with voiceover — about the opening of his most ambitious project, the 1960s television series “The Prisoner.” The show is currently being remade for AMC, with James Caviezel in McGoohan’s role as Number Six and Ian McKellen as Number Two.
Patrick McGoohan escapes (1928-2009)
Jim Emerson
Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.
