Farewell, Number 6

The saddest part of ageing is seeing the ones we adored pass.  Patrick McGoohan was a hero of mine.  I recall watching him when I was so small, first at The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, then as sauve John Drake in Danger Man/Secret Agent, then in the highly imaginative The Prisoner in the late 1970s.  No single small series has ever generated such discussion and debate.
McGoohan was a rogue.  Refused the offer of play James Bond, often professed he didn't indugle in vices on screen that he didn't d