Patrick McGoohan Interview, 1985

[mortalhellion]

Patrick McGoogan. The man, the lengend. When folks did the Prisoner remake on TV, they went to McGoohan for advise. He told them not to bother making it. They did anyway. It didn't turn out. They should've listened to the guy.

They had the potential to make a sequel using McGoohan in a possible cameo. They didn't.

The original series still holds as a groundbreaking series of innovative ideas and political intrigue. Long live Number Six.

[stevejailbirdmatt]

The greatest actor never to have played Bond -- though he turned it down 3 times. Patrick McGoohan lives on and is one of those actors awesome enough to do what he damn well likes, or in the words of Carly Simon -- 'Nobody does it better.' As for the name ' Gay Search, get over it (okay-I have to admit that at first I thought it was a link to a later subject in the programme running along the bottom of the screen...I am human too you know) In memory of the greatest tv series ever made - B C N U.

[terrryc]

Jane Pauley was sooooooo cute....

[JapStrangler]

That's the first and last time I put 'Gay Search'into google

[usulkane]

McGhoohan is a legend! ...BE SEEING YOU!

[mattkresal]

Nobody mentioned this has the only footage of McGoohan's Broadway performance!

[kenfig]

Delicious presenter on here !

[McGeachan]

Respected Patrick McGoohan before he prostrated himself before the anti-semite adulterer Mel Gibson. Then I understood him to be the cunt he always was.

[Banner1979]

I'm watching The Prisoner right now. Top show with highly relevant themes about identity and authority. Nice one, Pat.

[skeilak]

:

"Hello, I'm Patrick McGoohan, and I'm so damn classy, I'll just read from the back of an envelope, and sound great doing it."

[rshaddock]

Poor lady with the name Gay Search. She must get kidded all the time. Sounds like a web site for poofs.

[kenfig]

@rshaddock Well that's an ORIGINAL thought AND joke ; how DID you think of that one i wonder ??

[WisconsinRun]

This is when morning news show were for sophisticated adults. Today its full of lousey Idol singers and reality show dumb asses! Bryan Gumble was smart to leave,he saw this reality crap coming many years ago!

[mortalhellion]

The Prisoner is one of the finest made science ficttion attempts on television from Britian apart from the Doctor Who series. McGoohan was a top notch actor.

[eonetim]

@mortalhellion Doctor Who is an attempt too and the good ones are far outweighed by all the 'attempts'. In the Prisoner's short run the batting average is much higher - McGoohan being, as you say, a great actor but also so much more for The Prisoner has a great deal to do with it... and if you're implying there's any better TV Scifi than British then I've outed you as a Trekkie! ;)

[mortalhellion]

@eonetim. I do prefer Doctor Who to Star Trek.

As proper science fiction goes, no one in their right minds would send 500 people in a ship into space as in ST. They would prefer sending a probe first. Ask any astronomer or astronaut this.

Doctor Who is a science fantasy which isn't constrained by rules or laws of S-F and as a freer format to enjoy their stories. I do like the original Trek series the best for being groundbreaking stuff. The Prisoner series is equally ingenuis in ideas.

[mortalhellion]

@eonetim. Quatermass films were brilliant influence in the alien invasion from space format. Torchwood series has good, mature material with a charismastic actor Barrowman. Life On Mars is a brilliant time travel story that is left open ended and Eleventh Hour is an excellent series with Patrick Stewart involving conspiracies. All of them offer an excellent outlet for British S-F. Though I did enjoy the first year of Primeveal before they killed off the main character. Still... some good stuff.

[nycolas1712]

Very good . Always, in our hearts!

[petibeber]

Very good actor.I remember him in scanners too.Cool acting.

[prisonermn]

Be seeing you Patrick. We'll miss you.

[kopynd]

I hope they don't remake the prisoner,if they do then please,please,please use a british actor.

[raoulhery]

actually a remake will be brodcasted in 2009. i hope it will be good, i hope the remake will keep the main ideas and wil honor patrick. RIP MASTER

[Rodimus78]

STOP! JUST STOP!

-r78

[Rodimus78]

SERIOUSLY, JUST STOP IT! }:(

-R78

[xxZaharoulaxx]

I believe The Prisoner is currently being made for the small screen with Ian McKellen.

[Melville10]

Your right. I just saw the ad but it is for tv on the AMC network here in the USA.

[Rodimus78]

STOP IT RIGHT NOW! }:(

-r78

[SDSen]

RIP McGoohan what a personality and actor he was just tragic

[macroyer1]

He will be missed! I thought that Hollywood wanted their own version of the 'prisoner', while Mcgoohan had his own which is why a film wasn't made. I think there's a TV version, six episodes, coming out sometime this year.

[GusF]

R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan. He will be sorely missed. :(

[SgAlice]

Patrick.

Be Seeing You

:D

[verbusen]

Hear Hear, I second that Sir, best wishes, you are an eccentric kind of man in reflection, but one that made the village a lot more tolerable!

Be Seeing you, again Sir.....

[ITT56RLC]

Pat, here's wishing u a happy and healthy new eightieth year.Love from Robin and Elaine from England."be seeing you"

[falconlem]

This also reminds me of how much I miss Jane Pauley, Kate Couric is a gutter ho, compared to this true Lady.

[ryanskapa]

My thoughts exactly. I tuned in to see Patrick, but what a pleasant surprise to see Jane Pauley.

[falconlem]

Wow, this was far to "slow paced" for todays commercial tv, its more PBS speed. They definitely would have knocked down that clip of the play to half the time, and McGoohan would have been laughed at for reading. But frankly I don't think he gave a darn, didn't look as though he wanted to be there did he?

[verbusen]

He does have that look to himself whenever you see him past say 1965. He played a great bad guy in Braveheart and was also great in the Columbo TV show. If this and the other interviews on youtube of him are the worse he had I'm still a big fan, he is awesome! At least up to the Prisoner and then it was mostly bad people (Scanners, Braveheart, Columbo, etc). I'm such a fan of Mr McGoohan that I am a fan of the Phantom because he is in it! Be seeing you!

[mrFalconlem]

U obviously weren't around in the 80's, morning TV was very slow paced, for good reason, MOST PEOPLE WATCHING THIS would have been stay at home moms or old people or maybe kids. I doubt you tape GMA either. Most people now only watch the news and go out the door to their job. But I do admit the play part was to long, I figure that's because they figured he wouldn't talk about the Prisoner.

[glassine]

<3 the paddy

[jeroid]

Love to have seen McGoohan onstage. I once played No. 6.... the only other person to have done so.

[moorlarkin]

How's that then? Was that in Oxford?

[jeroid]

Post Mortem Theatre Company stage adaptation of Once Upon A Time... (penultimate episode). Performed it at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Green Room in Manchester and Portmeirion Town Hall at Prisoner festival, 1989.

[BooNube]

I bet that was a hell of a script to have to learn verbatim.

[jeroid]

It wasn't too bad really, all short lines. I performed it on alternate nights with Samuel Beckett's Endgame, which is a lot harder to learn if you are playing Hamm, as I did.

[stevejailbirdmatt]

@jeroid I remember it well! Be seeing you... (Steve Matt) and 'The Jailbird'!

[Ziffelsnout]

They have to be kidding with that name...Gay Search?..did they live next door to the Fockers?!

[mrFalconlem]

Its a british name dufussnout. People have different names in different parts of the world get used to it.

[emalyse]

Is this Gay Search the same woman that used to be on the gardening programs in the UK?Looks like her anyway. Didn't know she had such an interesting past (aside from the name that still seems to cause much amusement).

[ah1701]

hehe...there were two people in the Film/TV industry who were strong embassadors of the British English language (and 'neutral' accent): David Niven and Patrick McGoohan.

[verbusen]

David Niven was a little more grounded me thinks.

[forceofdust]

Gay search??? HAHAHA

[campbellonia]

He he he. The Lonsdale case. Excellent stuff. McGoohan is resentful that he's always cast as a spy of some kind, but there's a good reason for it. He does it so well!

Kroegers will have seen this play on film in the Lubyanka basement, one hopes, before their paymasters paid them off in the manner to which they had become accustomed. But I dont know what actually happened to them. Probably lived out their natural spans, the bastrads.

[KentAllard]

he takes the roles

[StanleyKu]

Patrick is awesome! Love that voice of his. The interviewer was a fox btw!

[pirate259]

Who Is Number One..YOU ARE Number Six

[dejahthoris]

Be seeing you!

[MikeTheLiberal]

Wow; great to see McGoohan and Pauley, as well as the stage play and a reference to MI-5.

[moorlarkin]

Only he could make America turn up to the reading of an envelope ;-)).....well done to the interviewer for being quick-footed enough to follow the interviewee !!

[nietzsche1]

McGoohan - one of a kind.

[verbusen]

Eccentric comes to mind.