I'm not a big toy collector but there's no way I could resist these Prisoner action figures from Wandering Planet Toys and my second wave order including Number 28 ("Orange alert!"), Leo McKern's Number 2, and the butler just arrived! (Also pictured: Number 6 from wave one)

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 - https://plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/products/the-cooler-pbk

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Today, March 19, in 1928, at 4:31 AM, a man is born who will eventually retire from his role as a secret government agent and be sent to a mysterious remote village, where he will be known only as “Number Six” (The Prisoner, s01e01 "Arrival", 1967)

2 March 1965

Patrick McGoohan becomes the highest paid actor in Britain. Twenty-four episodes of Danger Man were sold to CBS for £400,000, which placed McGoohan in the £2,000 a week bracket.

#Today 19:
Number two: "You know, Number six, English muffins really are better when fork-split."
Number six: "What makes an English muffin appealing is it's flavor, not the fork-split, razor-tipped, texture that flays the roof of my mouth!"
Number two: "How quaint, Number six. But it's the fork-split nooks and crannies that capture more of the delicious jam."
Number six: "I control how much jam I put on my toast. I refuse to allow toast divots to usurp my agency. And I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Number two: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLg-7G0Xp0

I’ve been digging for bricks, and uncovered this at Hobbs End, just in time to display at Bricktastic 22-23 February at Manchester Central

#Quatermass in #LEGO, and some #DoctorWho and #ThePrisoner as well. #legodoctorwho

Popular Television, 1960s

Danger Man (1960-68)

Patrick McGoohan starred as John Drake, NATO agent. The series was stop-start - two years on, two years off, two years on, two years off, then a final year. The initial episodes lasted half an hour. Then, due to the popularity of James Bond, Drake returned in hour-long episodes, this time as a member of the British secret service, working for MI9.

If you haven't seen The Prisoner, you won't have a clue about this. If you have, who do you think was Number One?

️ Patrick McGoohan died on this day in 2009. Here we look at one of the most memorable episodes of The Prisoner, The Schizoid Man https://youtu.be/l7s9-Jwi53s?si=UYXnxhn3RqA83YJS
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️ Patrick McGoohan, star of surreal 1960s spy series The Prisoner and its brilliant precursor Danger Man, died on this day in 2009. Listen to Speckled Band’s tribute Prisoner, streaming everywhere now https://youtu.be/pHGALnGbh4s?si=3oVQCd6Gld435tHL

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"I am not a number; I am a free man!"

A trio of Patrick McGoohan classics with overlapping themes: Danger Man adventures Whatever Happened to George Foster?, and The Mirror’s New (both 1965); the third, Dance of the Dead (1967), was the 8th broadcast episode of The Prisoner.

I'm a big fan of The Prisoner, so delighted to find this original novelization under the tree.

#ThePrisoner

#CultTV

#PatrickMcGoohan

#DangerMan

#1960sTV

#BritishCultTV

#No6

Geekout for today: I will never ever get over the fact that #BrassTarget (1978) gave us a scene of #NapoleonSolo and #ThePrisoner secretly plotting together on a train. #RobertVaughn #TheManFromUncle #PatrickMcGoohan #NumberSix #Film

️ Last Salute to the Commodore (Columbo, season five, episode six, May 1976) closed the season with a bizarre story directed by Peter Falk’s friend and trusted collaborator Patrick McGoohan, star of cult 1960s series The Prisoner. Commodore is divisive fare and many fans would gladly see it sunk to the fathomless deeps never to be seen again! Any fans?

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"You are, Number Six."