Current mood:	contemplative
Entry tags:	obit, patrick mcgoohan, the prisoner

Patrick McGoohan
Sadly, Number Six's number has come up. I have the impression that I first saw The Prisoner when it was first broadcast in the late 60s - I don't think it had a consistent broadcast time on the whole ITV network, but I recall watching it early on Sunday afternoons on Granada TV - back in those days my parents would go to bed for a couple of hours nap on Sunday afternoon (and maybe something else, but what did a nine year old know...?), and I had the sole control of the TV channel selector (although, of course we only had BBC on Channel 2, and Granada on Channel 9!) between 1 and 3 p.m., so I could watch what I wanted. I loved the theme music in particular, and it's great that so many versions of it can now be easily found on YouTube. No doubt a fair bit of the storyline went over my head at that age, but I had another chance to see it in the late 70s when Anglia TV repeated it while I was at UEA in Norwich - as treasurer of the UEA student TV service which timeshifted the programme for the students' benefit, I was able to rewatch the tapes several times before we needed to reuse the tape to record the next episode.

R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, clearly more than just a number.