Number Six is gone. 'The Prisoner' was an intelligent and somewhat surreal British science fiction series that I watched in re-runs as a child. McGoohan starred as a former intelligence agent trapped in the Village, given a number, and spurred to explain why he resigned. It included elements of the 60s counterculture and was rather strange and utterly British. McGoohan was also known to audiences as 'Danger Man' or in the US, 'Secret Agent'.
and
Ricardo Montalban, Wrath of Khan's Classic Space Villain, Dies at 88
I love this quote from the article:
While Montalban's TV appearance as Khan in the original Star Trek episode 'Space Seed' was based on controlled menace, his older, angrier big-screen version was bat-dropping crazy -- a raging force of nature.
And Montalban played it to the hilt, a very different character than Mr Roarke on 'Fantasy Island'. He had a very distinctive voice, as well.
Both will be missed.
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