THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part one.

[RockinRita45]

What a man....Patrick McGoohan!

[MrDrum22]

 Loved this ALLERGRY (?) or visionary programme. Was very young watching this and hve been looking for this ages. I have the same fond memories of the early Avengers series...great stuff and ahead of its time, imagine with today's technology and short cuts, same story line and actors of the time...

[frog606]

Have you got the rest of the documentry? I will give you my sister and write you into my will if you upload it. Thanks.

[Bm23CC]

He's a relative of mine, in Leitrim in Ireland ,we call him the "Danger Man ".

[vashtiverous78]

I like the sound of his voice, its manly and shows his personality as very knowledgeable and worldly..i like that

[mikeismad61]

As a long time fan of the Prisoner I hop to visit the Village for the next Prisoner Society event (April 2012?) I feel that we didn't get to see enough of McGoohan after he quit the UK. I also agree that his voice is rich and has texture like Richard Burton's, but even better.

A real visionary – he are unlikely to see his kind again. Such a huge pity that the NEW Prisoner was so poor – but then again in today's no risk modern world of TV did we really expect anything better?

[spartanjellybean]

hey im daniel mcgoohan his decendent

[leahcimrac]

I thought he was American.

[soulfingero]

@leahcimrac He was born in New York I believe. He & his parents moved to the UK. His parents came from Ireland

[YourFaceWillDie468]

Mr. McGoohan's voice reminds me of Richard Burton's, only better.

[FidelCastro128]

Informative Interview, shame the producers included 'actor/ #2' bit.

Patrick McGoohan is films ideal intellectual. Long live the

spirit of Mr. McGoohan.

[BillDFC]

I didn't find it at all confusing....to me it was a comment on real life and the way we treat each other. It had a disturbing honesty about it.

[19XWyomingGrizFan]

I'v always interpreted "The Prisoner" in line with Joseph Conrad's "Secret Agent Man (1907)." Who also wrote a novel entitled "The Rover," by the way, as well. Wherein is written..."two's(2) and sixes(6) to a T." A 1931 novel by Talbot Mundy has James Schyler Grimm saying..."I am Number One." The pragmatic (J.S. Grimm) adventurer < "The Nine Unknown" by T. Mundy. William James had a treatise also published in 1907, "Pragmatism;" pragmatism as an adventurer.

[Bestmanme08]

Married McGoohan had trouble dealing with the ladies (the book The Unofficial Prisoner Companion shows he had trouble with intimacy on the set of his show)! He was bisexual!

[buzzclick500]

@Bestmanme08 : Well, and I suppose none of us could have continued to live our happy lives without knowing that vital "fact", wot? ;])

[usulkane]

Patrick's work in the prisoner is timeless...I'm 31 and literally just watched the prisoner last week- i'm still kinda speechless about it...I only knew him from Braveheart prior to this...WOW...this guy was way ahead of his time and a genius...

[n8tureboy]

Why isn't intelligent television being made nowadays ? Why does Hollywood spoon-feed us politically correct, historically inaccurate trash? Could there be an agenda to dumb-down and psycho-civilize the population?

95% of media is utter B.S.! At least (for now) we have the internet to bypass the media's control on information.

Thanks, Patrick McGoohan for your contribution.

[brownies4you]

@n8tureboy well-said! I love it when people show some backbone and speak the truth.  Thank you!

[n8tureboy]

@brownies4you

Thanks for the affirmation in the positive. I try to to give it to those Hollywood creeps with both barrels whenever I can. I figure they're at war with me, so I'll just war with them. It's a psy-war, but war nonetheless. A war for the mind using information as the weapon.

I hate their culture. I despise their values, and I will not sit idly by while these culture destroyers do their dirty work. Their job is to make people pliable and suggestive so they'll make good slaves!

[sojournersblues]

DANGER MAN was originally about James Bond. Ian Fleming was the chief consultant on the series.  Patrick McGoohan turned James Bond into John Drake and stuck to his guns at the risk of losing the role.

[sojournersblues]

DANGER MAN was originally about James Bond. Ian Fleming was the chief consultant on the series.  Patrick McGoohan turned James Bond into John Drake and stuck to his guns at the risk of losing the role. During the runs of DANGER MAN, McGoohan turned the chaotic hedonist super-spy into a suffering Christ (if you don't believe me, watch the episodes THE PAPER CHASE and SHINDA SHIMA, among others).

sojournersblues 4 days ago

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

The whole series was an allegory - a story in a sense - a bit of stagecraft to tell a tale of someone who is forced to conform but never will. Ingenius. Everything that happens is there to tell a new side of the Prisoner's character. He can never leave as he is never really there. "It means what it is"

[SPeacock]

Rest In Peace, SIR Patrick McGoohan (should be posthumously knighted).

[flappospammo]

lou grade was a legend

he was behind stuff like thunderbirds too !

[harrysboy]

I dont think the last episode should really be taken into context with the rest of the show, it was more patrick's view on the state of the world and it was a quite brilliant piece of satire, i think we would have got a more normal ending if the 17 episodes were spread out over 2 series and they would have found a good way to end it

[shaboopie12]

i finally realised what "THE PRISONER" really means

[eameece]

@shaboopie12 As Mrs. Butterworth said, "DO tell!"

[HoneySuckleIncense]

this means so much to me.....you have no idea....thanks for putting this up...

[charlesdcw1990]

RIP

[tubian323]

If you listen close when they show clips from 'Living in Harmony', the music is a western version of the dreamy party song from 'A. B. and C'.

[tubian323]

I agree with McGoohan. Taken literally, the final episode of The Prisoner doesn't make much sense. But if you take it as allegory or symbolim, that makes it less confusing.

[ProjectFlashlight612]

F**kin' genius.

[chunggokyan]

I agree! Patrick McGoohan will always be remembered as one of the finest actors ever! He was so underrated and definitely deserved more recognition for his work.

[FishingtonBurpPuzzle]

There is an unbelievably profound meaning to the Prisoner and it will go down as art which transcends the media. The sixties definitely were a time of amazing creativity.

[Hiraghm]

I always loved its celebration of the individual.

Who knew that 40 years later, the Village would evolve from the U.S.?

At least we now know who #1 is... The One... sitting in the White House, exhorting us all to sacrifice, preaching the common good, denigrating the exceptional...

[kaferere]

@Hiraghm, I agree with everything you say except that number one is sitting in the whitehouse. I think the Prisoner was more accurate by showing us that number one will never be revealed because his (or their) power lies in their concealment as puppetmasters.

[spectreduloft]

Tu a été brillant Patrick dans cette series!

Sois en paix!

[tom117192]

Be seeing you

[terrykozak]

The Prisoner, truly one of those classic television series that you were fortunate enough to watch. Patrick was absolutely outstanding. A delight to the rebels in this world. To stand up and say "fuck you, I am not a number." Writing, acting, filming all combining together to give the viewers one hell of a show. Rest in Peace Patrick. After the series, no matter what show he was on, he was always a great actor.

[clokverkorange]

"A man chooses. A slave obeys."

Anyone else see a correlation here?

[Pulsar205]

I agree Patrick..I thought Living in Harmony was great-having a Western episode added to the surrealism.

[praha007]

Rest in peace Patrick and thanks foor the lovely moments on television. You will be remembered and not as a number, but as a fine actor.

[EsrimArba]

That show was absoloutly superb. Its hard to describe how good it was.

Its a show that requires thought, and understanding...which is great!

[BillDFC]

Spot on.....to me number 6 was William Wallace-he stood against tyranny and represented liberty and freedom.

[Dorkschnieder]

I was so inpired by this man that I went to Port Merion (The Village) just to walk around. I am very sad that he is gone.

[Razimus]

Rest in peace

[SHITPEAS]

Patrick should have gone on to create a lot more great tv. Why didn't he? It will be sad to know he is no longer here, somewhere?

[unclewalt56]

Secret Agent man, #6, R.I.P. my friend.

[C6H5No2]

Absolutely brilliant...

heh Archibald Schwartz

[markagudsnuk]

A genius beyond words....

[dennis789111]

Patrick McGoohan will be missed. He will always be Number One.

[jmmorris9913]

anyone know what year this youtube video was made? cheers

[warrior350es]

great actor

[marsufloyd]

RIP

[JohnJohn27030]

Loved your work Patrick. RIP.

[UglyMannheim]

Rest in peace Mr McGoohan.

[wendigocol]

RIP Mr. McGoohan......be seeing you.

[bourque80]

RIP... He will be missed, A tremendous actor!!!

[CarlLH42]

RIP

[fascistamericadotnet]

FREE AT LAST

[mssolitare]

R.I.P. :(

[zyde70]

Patrick McGoohan, as good a james bond as there ever could have been. Such a genius - his scrips were sheer brilliance and will remaine with us for ever!

[randypanhandy]

Debate? Dont debate? Ponder? Or dont ponder? Does anybody think that the character of PMG would sit around debating this excellent t.v. series? Do you think so? No! whilst your all talking he would be legging it across that beach, and in his words would say ' be seeing you'

[davidcobb42]

I had never seen this before. I thought I'd seen everything. McGoohan is great. He really should have been 007.

[Pmg6portmeirion]

Yes,he turned it down, he's a very moral kinda guy, dosen't like the sexual stuff in the Bond movies.

[TubeofDestiny]

@Pmg6portmeirion woaw, thanks a lot for the vid and that info, imo they should have gave him carte blanche to make his own bond movie... in his own freaky way.

I discovered The Prisoner when I borrowed the DVDs from a friend, and yes, it was hell of a show ! like when you read a really good books, it changes you forever, thx for that Patrick, RIP

[tikletik]

@Pmg6portmeirion I wouldn't be surprised if he also turned it down because bond is complete bullshit in every way imaginable.

[buzzclick500]

@tikletik : In the world of seriously thoughtful entertainment, "The Prisoner" is David to "James Bond"'s Goliath. Until I saw this "tiny tasty treat" of a t.v. show(at the age of 55), I was a big fan of James Bond. That spell has been broken.

[MarkTilechoes]

@Pmg6portmeirion I thought it was because he hated characters who always used a gun

[b5kalad]

I was hoping McGoohan would be "M" when the actor playing the part died 10 or 12 years ago.

[HConstantine]

@davidcobb42

Why? Do';t you think the Prisoner was more successful than any Bond film?

[henrydaniell]

Thank you so much for posting this. Excellent!

[copchik]

Nice to see Mc Goohan at ease. I worked with him once, on a play and found him somewhat stiff and rather a snob. So, how great to have PMG in shirtsleeves, literally! And, talking about a series that still fascinates, provokes, and engages!!!

[SDSen]

Really? I thought he was known as a v.friendly kind of person

[glassine]

thank you for cutting away the extraneous stuff which i don't care about at all...the meat and potatoes is PMG and i recall that when i saw this the first time that the 'comedy' interludes were sorely lacking in humor.

[TheSuperLambBanana]

"I'm beginning to like this" - that was adorable. xD

[verbusen]

Would like to see the rest.... b seeing u

[belledumonde07]

He's so cool.

[yobnez]

A Brilliant Man!