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Posted by Andrew Venor on 10/04/35 11:31
tabernacle2002@hotmail.com wrote:
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> Derek Janssen wrote:
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>>Paul LEFEBVRE wrote:
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>>>And if you really like this spy stuff from old black&white British TV,
>>>make sure you get the "Secret Agent" series with Patrick McGoohan.
>>>It's really and truly a great honest-to-goodness espionage series.
>>>There are 47 episodes in the series.
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>>Especially if you're aware that McGoohan's John Drake was unofficially
>>considered to be the "real" No.6 from "The Prisoner" (McG just refused
>>to admit it because he was disgruntled with the later "Danger"/"Secret"
>>series and didn't want the typecasting), and the same modus-operandi
>>methods still show--
>>Taken as a Prisoner "prequel", it may be too 60's-spy escapist, but it's
>>got the stuff. :)
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> Loved the opening theme songs for both of them series!
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> You know I wonder if that is why we never got to know No.6's real name
> and if he was really guilty or not? And why it ran for only a season as
> maybe it was kinda like what McGoohan meant to do from the start in
> order for it to be a final ending to the Danger Man TV series like so
> he could finally move on to other roles?
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> BTW I would really love to see them make an updated version of The
> Prisoner (with Gary Oldman as 6) with say a Matrix like or a Brazil
> like feel to it?
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>>Derek Janssen (and if you're not up on A&E's "Prisoner"...oh, man)
>>djanss@charter.net
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In the body swapping episode Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling didn't
Number 6 check is signature by signing his name as John Drake?
ALV
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