Deep Sixed

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I am Not a Number, I am a Dead Man
(An epitaphany shared with Phil)

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Prisoner No More
(Kudos to Monty)

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I am not a number....actually, it's lot 238, 2 rows, third on the left
(Additional accolades for Phil)

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Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow
(Tip o’ the cap for Don)

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You are number......86ed
(Further flourishes for Phil)

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The Village is Missing Their Idiot
(Bonus bragging for Phil)

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It Takes a Village to Kill a Man.....
(More merit for Phil)

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He's just a number, not a free man
(A different take from Don)

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Be seeing you, Number Six
(A trifecta from Don)
Patrick McGoohan is off to meet another No. 2 after finding his way out of the Village at the age of 80. The original choice to play James Bond, McGoohan instead took up as TV’s coolest spy, John Drake, on the BBC series Danger Man. Unlike Bond, Drake made mistakes, didn’t use a gun and didn’t nail everything that moved. Despite the series’ popularity, McGoohan gave it up to create The Prisoner, one of TV’s truly grand experiments. He starred as an unnamed spy who has gone off the reservation, only to get captured or kidnapped and taken to the high-tech prison/country club The Village for a bizarre interrogation. McGoohan was intimately involved in the show, drafting a 54-page “Bible” explaining the history of the Village and covering every minute detail to ensure the series’ mythology. A BBC man to the core, McGoohan conceived the series as a 7-episode run, but the demands of U.S. television stretched it out to 17 shows, and it remains a cult phenomenon. He showed up in the Village one more time in The Simpsons episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes, where he gets left behind as Homer, aka No. 5, steals his boat to escape. When not trying to elude the Rover, he tormented Clint Eastwood as the sinister warden in Escape from Alcatraz, ran the Scanners wing of ConSec, and played the sadistic King Edward I in Braveheart, and pulled off the unique feat of playing two different special guest murderers on Columbo TV-movies 15 years apart and winning an Emmy for each. Other roles he turned down included Simon Templar, aka The Saint, Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, and as a potential replacement for Columbo.