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"I always had this fascination with the man in isolation, against the bureaucracy, against society, and also I've always had the constant fear that we're becoming a numeralized society more and more, and that for the individual, the rebel, shall we say the 'arrogant individual' to survive and keep his self respect, there has to be a certain amount of fighting against the system."
Though born in America, Irish actor Patrick McGoohan rose to become the number-one British TV star in the 1950s to 1960s era. His parents moved to Ireland when he was very young and McGoohan acquired a neutral accent that sounded at home in British or American dialogue.
While working as a stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with the Rank Organization. After some clashes with the management, the contract was dissolved. Soon after, production executive Lew Grade approached McGoohan about a television series in which he would play a spy named John Drake.
Having learned from his experience at the Rank Organization, he insisted on several conditions in the contract before agreeing to appear in the programme: all the fistfights should be different, the character would always use his brain before using a gun, and, much to the horror of the executives, no kissing.
The series debuted in 1960 as "Danger Man"; production lasted a year and 39 episodes. After this first series was over, one interviewer asked McGoohan if he would have liked the series to continue, to which he replied, "Perhaps, but let me tell you this: I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago and for which I blame no one but myself."
After he had also turned down the role of Simon Templar in "The Saint", Grade asked him if he would like to give John Drake another try. This time, McGoohan had even more say about the series. "Danger Man" (US: "Secret Agent") was resurrected in 1964 and scripts now allowed McGoohan more range in his acting.
The popularity of the series led to McGoohan’s becoming the highest-paid actor in the UK, and the show lasted almost three more years.
In the face of McGoohan's intention to quit "Danger Man", Grade asked if he would at least work on "something" for him. McGoohan gave him a run-down of what would later be called a miniseries, about a secret agent who resigns suddenly and wakes up to find himself in a prison disguised as a holiday resort. Grade asked for a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to do "The Prisoner". Apart from being the star, McGoohan was the executive producer, forming Everyman Films with series producer David Tomblin, and also wrote and directed several episodes, in some cases using pseudonyms.
The originally commissioned seven episodes became seventeen.
The title character of "The Prisoner" (the otherwise-unnamed "Number Six") spends the entire series trying to escape from a luxury island prison community called "The Village", and to learn the identity of his nemesis, Number One. The Village's administrators try just as hard to force or trick him into revealing why he resigned from his previous job as a spy, which he refuses to divulge. Many believe that Number Six, is, in fact, John Drake; indeed, at least one character from "Danger Man" (Potter) appears in an episode of "The Prisoner." However, McGoohan had since 1967 been adamant Number 6 is not John Drake.
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