{"id":724,"date":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=724"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","slug":"patrick-mcgoohan-the-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McGoohan – The Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was looking at The Sun’s website for that UFO story I came across the news that Patrick McGoohan has died<\/a> at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

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Patrick McGoohan<\/p><\/div>\n

He was the star of the cult classic from the 60s: The Prisoner<\/a>. But he also starred in Danger Man before that, and in films such as The Man In The Iron Mask , Escape From Alcatraz , and Silver Streak .<\/p>\n

The Prisoner was something I remember vaguely\u00a0from my childhood, and it is re-run on satellite every now and again. So I was saddened to hear of Patrick’s death after what is described as ‘a short illness’.<\/p>\n

I was always surprised he didn’t appear in more films, although he did get award nominations for his appearances in those American TV pseudo-films (Columbo, etc.). I suppose time catches up with us all – but it’s always especially sad when an icon from the past dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was looking at The Sun’s website for that UFO story I came across the news that Patrick McGoohan has died at the age of 80. He was the star of the cult classic from the 60s: The Prisoner. But he also starred in Danger Man before that, and in films such as The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t