PATRICK McGOOHAN R.I.P.

For those of you who have seen The Prisoner or The Secret Agent no other explanation is necessary. He will be missed.

For those of you who only know him from Bravehear as the ruthless King Longshanks, go to AMC's site and watch a few episodes of the brilliant and bizarre The Prisoner, a show he not only starred in but helped to create. I'm not ashamed to say that I have no idea what his final episode is trying to say.

His annunciation was to die for (see his villian in Silver Streak) and he always brought a bit of macabre class to the episodes of Columbo that he appeared in.

Here's a taste: