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  1. Danger Man 4/1 – Mit Patrick McGohaan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBUSz366PA&list=PLa6xsMOuMehjA4pH9LMuRQ1RJJcus0FSJ&index=85

    A Japanese agent warns that a UN negotiator will be assassinated in New York by a Tokyo-based organization, but the agent is killed before she can give the details and Drake is sent to Tokyo to investigate.

    #DangerMan #Fernsehen #Krimi #PatrickMcGoohan
  2. Danger Man 4/2 – Mit Patrick McGoohan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtUTMB-nM7o&list=PLa6xsMOuMehjA4pH9LMuRQ1RJJcus0FSJ

    An electronics expert working for the secret service suddenly retires; M9 needs to know why and Blake takes his place; he follows the clues to an island off Japan, Shinda Shima, a place where there have been several unexplained deaths.

    #42 #DangerMan #Fernsehen #Film #Krimi #PatrickMcGoohan
  3. Patrick McGoohan drum solo – Reel Wild Planet

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5p80BMHYk

    All Night Long (1962) Directed by Basil Dearden. Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough, Dave Brubeck. Jazz adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello.

    #1962 #AllNightLong #drumSolo #Jazz #MUSIK #PatrickMcGoohan #ReelWildPlanet #Schlagzeug
  4. It’s another beautiful day in The Village.

    (This picture always reminds me of Jerry peeking his head out of his mousehole to see if Tom is around.)

    #ThePrisoner #PatrickMcGoohan #Portmeirion #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi

  5. All 17 episodes of "The Prisoner" featuring Patrick McGoohan, available to watch for free!

    ▶️ The Prisoner | FULL EPISODES | Shout! Studios
    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBr
    #theprisoner #patrickmcgoohan

  6. 📺 Patrick McGoohan was the mysterious star of Danger Man and The Prisoner, two hugely influential TV series. Find out more about him - and the cult hit shows which made him a star 👇

    youtube.com/shorts/YuPaTu7tmu0

    #theprisoner #patrickmcgoohan #television #tv #1960s #60s

  7. 💀 Dance of the Dead is an episode of cult classic TV show The Prisoner. Find out more 👇 The show was first screened in the U.K. #otd in 1967.

    youtu.be/NvsfoZ2le6w?si=JTzlu3

    #theprisoner #tv #1960s #60s #television #retro #patrickmcgoohan

  8. 📺 Cult classic The Prisoner first aired on U.K. TV on this day in 1967. Find out more about the surreal spy show whose themes still resonate today 👇Check out Speckled Band’s tribute track Prisoner, out now to stream and download.

    youtu.be/oTBdCSHgbos?si=PAl6Ep

    #television #tv #1960s #60s #otd #patrickmcgoohan #theprisoner #youtube

  9. The Walking Dead : The Ones who live

    The Ones who live has immediately gone up as one of my favourite series in The Walking Dead universe. Top spot of course is Negan's introduction. Holy Christ that was intense. But I gotta say that after finishing the six-episode series of this Rick and Michone spin-off, it has catapulted up to near the top. And it was a single moment that solidified it for me. Now I always enjoyed watching Rick grow increasingly capable and deadly as the series moved forward. I was lucky to start […]

    davidpeach.me/2025/08/09/the-w

  10. 📺 Enjoyed this documentary about The Prisoner and Portmeirion, the Italianate town on the Welsh coast where the cult 1960s #tv series was filmed, as sinister as it is beautiful… #bbc #theprisoner #prisoner #patrickmcgoohan #portmeirion #wales

    bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002

  11. Exploring the couple Patrick McGoohan films on Criterion, and found All Night Long. Othello, but in the 60s London Jazz scene.

    It includes performances by actual jazz greats, like Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Tubby Hayes, and Johnny Dankworth.

    Well worth a watch.

    I swear the thunder sound effect is the same as the Prisoner.

    #Movies #Noir #Cinena #PatrickMcGoohan #Shakespeare #Othello #Jazz #CharlesMingus #DaveBrubeck #TubbyHayes #JohnnyDankworth

  12. Watching the first of #PatrickMcGoohan ‘s guest appearances on #Columbo at @Illuminatus ‘s recommendation.

    Of course being a guest star usually means murderer.

    By Dawn’s Early Light, military academy commandant doesn’t want the academy to go co-ed. Conveniently, the founder dies in a cannon misfire during the Founder’s Day ceremony.

    I’m still amazed Columbo had movie length episodes and was on for so long. They don’t make them like that anymore.

    #TV #Mystery #PeterFalk

  13. I found that #DangerMan / #SecretAgentMan is on Prime (as is #ThePrisoner and #TheSaint ). I love the Prisoner, but I’d never seen #PatrickMcGoohan in Danger Man before.

    It’s a very fast paced show. At ~23 minutes, they cram in a plot that really deserves a 50 minute episode (like the Saint), so there’s no wasted moments. Even the dialog is rapid fire.

    I appreciate McGoohan’s skill at taking on different personas and accents.

    I can see why they wanted him for #JamesBond .

    #Bond #JohnDrake

  14. I need to rewatch The Prisoner. That was such a bloody great show.

  15. OOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!

    An interview with #PatrickMcGoohan about what the hell #ThePrisoner is all about!

    Me will watch immediately!

    dailymotion.com/video/x492pwi

    #TV

  16. Brand – Von Henrik Ibsen

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcbe5KTFlw

    Brand ist ein Stück des norwegischen Dramatikers Henrik Ibsen. Es handelt sich um eine Tragödie in Versform, die 1865 geschrieben und am 24. März 1867 in Stockholm, Schweden, uraufgeführt wurde. Brand ist ein Priester, der die Konsequenzen seiner Entscheidungen akzeptiert und fest entschlossen ist, das „Richtige“ zu tun. Er glaubt in erster Linie an den Willen des Menschen und lebt nach der Devise „alles oder nichts“. Kompromisse zu schließen ist daher schwierig oder fragwürdig. Brands Überzeugungen machen ihn einsam, denn die Menschen in seiner Umgebung können oder wollen seinem Beispiel nicht folgen, wenn er auf die Probe gestellt wird. Er ist ein junger Idealist, dessen Hauptziel es ist, die Welt oder zumindest die Seelen der Menschen zu retten, aber sein Urteil über andere ist hart und ungerecht.

    #Brand #Film #HenrikIbsen #PatrickMcGoohan #ShakespeareNetwork #Theater

  17. Very sorry to hear that Rachel Herbert passed away on 7th March 2025, at the age of 90. She gave a most memorable performance as Number 58 in the 'Free For All' episode of The Prisoner. "Tick... Tick!"

    #ThePrisoner #Portmeirion #RetroSciFi #PatrickMcGoohan #RachelHerbert

  18. ♟️The Cooler (1974) was a spy novel written by George Markstein, co-creator of 1960s surreal espionage series The Prisoner. It’s based on the real-life Inverlair Lodge, a ‘retirement home for spies’, which also inspired The Prisoner. It was long out of print but is now available again, with a striking cover - plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pr

    www.speckled.band

    #theprisoner #1960s #prisoner #PatrickMcGoohan #1970s #television #tv #books #spy #spybooks #espionage

  19. Remembering Patrick McGoohan on what would have been his 97th birthday.

    #ThePrisoner #PatrickMcGoohan

  20. CW: just a bit of fun assassination movie review

    Watched "The Hitman's Bodyguard" (2017) on Sunday and "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard " (2021) on Monday.

    The 1st had a European Dictator (a "Belarussian" played by Gary Oldman) on trial (in ... Amsterdam ...) who was charged with various offences (moneylaundering, maybecheatingatgolf, massmurder).

    The 2nd had a Greek crimeboss (played by Robert Rodriguez) carrying out a plan to cut a main European data cable.

    So, no doubt very inspiring for some ...

    Anyway, I enjoyed the almost 1950's madcap comedy whipsnap sharp dialogue but with cusses; Ryan does his thing, Samuel L does his better thing and Salma basically plays her DuskTillDawn role, Santánico Pandemonium, but times a thousand.

    The series is like Bruce Willis' DieHard movies (infrastructure weaknesses) and a parody of the Tom Cruise MissionImpossible films (ridiculous ass-pulls but revelling in the ridiculousness of the ass-pulls even moreso than MI does).

    Salma's "Sonia Kincaid" reminds me of the unreconstructed & post-reconstructed personality of Angelina DiGriz from the StainlessSteelRat book series (we never find out Angelina's real name but she takes Jim's surname on marriage).
    Angelina is a megalonaniac psychopath with a murderous version of a Nihilistic personal philosophy). Psychopathy was a big thing in the 1950's post-WorldWarTwo era with the Nature vs Nurture debate being on the minds of intellectuals in the West.
    Sonia is a conwoman (so like Jim & Angelina) but opposed to capitalists and crimebosses (so she's unlike Angelina but more like Jim in that respect (Jim likes scams and bank robberies).
    She is quick to violence when others she cares about are in danger (or threatened). She bears grudges.
    (Salma, of course, acts/works well with Robert Rodriguez.)

    Samuel L's "Darius Kincaid" reminded me of his role in "51st State" (the pharmaceutical genius Elmo McElroy). Despite having a surprising personal reason for "choosing" their lives (Elmo as chemist, Darius as a hitman), his characters drive the stories providing forward movement (and action) where exposition for other characters's emotional lives would stop the plot (Darius turns out to be the one responsible for most of the turmoil in the characters's lives).

    Ryan's "Michael Bryce" is essentially a good man trying his hardest to be excellent in his job as a certificated licensed bodyguard. He then hits this patch (the movies) where he is constantly frustrated by his own desire and incompetence to achieve that recognition but also will push respectability (in others's eyes) away to maintain his ethical code. Michael is a combination of John Cusack's Martin Blank from Grosse Pointe Blank (for which we have to thank Lee Marvin in Point Blank (but not Mel Gibson in Payback)) and John Cleese's Basil Fawlty from FartyOwls.

    There's a sequence in the 1st film where Michael & Darius are in a stolen car and Darius claims he needs to pee - it's at about 45mins in and is four minutes of low-action high-comedy with a tad of "of course that had to happen now".

    I got a lot out of these films, but there was also something else ... I'll be seeing you.

    #TheHitmansBodyguard #PatrickMcGoohan

  21. A 36min 1977 interview between #PatrickMcGoohan & host Warner Troyer about "The Prisoner".

    ✅ Was The Village The First 15 Minute City? | The Prisoner Puzzle
    youtube.com/watch?v=DJVLWPyXXv

    (from 'The Ministry of Truth', a YouTube channel dedicated to #ThePrisoner: youtube.com/@theofficialminist)

  22. ⚪️ Patrick McGoohan died on this day in 2009. Here we look at one of the most memorable episodes of The Prisoner, The Schizoid Man 👉 youtu.be/l7s9-Jwi53s?si=UYXnxh
    #theprisoner #patrickmcgoohan #television #tv #1960s #60s #youtube #trivia www.speckled.band