The Prisoner Was Personal For My Dad | Catherine McGoohan 

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Patrick McGoohan was a visionary. Unfortunately, we are now living in the nightmare world that he tried to warn us about.

The Prisoner is a masterpiece.

Even now in 2024, Patrick Mcgoohan is still ahead of his time..

Patrick should still receive a posthumous oscar for his portrayal of King Edward the Longshanks in Mel Gibsons Braveheart. Everytime I watch this movie I am spellbound at his performance in it.

I loved the Prisoner series, and Danger man. Lucky enough to visit the village a few times.

What an excellent interview. Dare I say it, McGoohan was a bit of a visionary and The Prisoner was eerily prophetic: "You won't get it. By hook or by crook, we will."

Id recommend Hell Drivers - you'll get it on RU-vid. You may recognise the cast......

What a genius he was, there will never be another series that comes close to matching The Prisoner

Patrick McGoohan was a most singular actor. And a man of great moral fortitude. I lament his passing. My regards to Catherine, and thanks for this content. Be seeing you.

60's tv was much better than today.

Fantastic, a wonderful insight into a special man and his great creation.

Nice to see his daughter showing him such understanding, and love, with genuine feeling. They must have been so close.

What a great interview!

Patrick McGoohan gave me his autograph when I was hiking in North Wales in the '60's. He was so fricking handsome, tanned with very bright blue eyes and a gorgeous smile. RIP Patrick.

What a very interesting video Catherine McGoohan really gave us a look inside her father, thank you . I have to say the great Leo McKern was equally brilliant in the Prisoner. I've subscribed ❤

He commands the screen - your eyes go to him in any scene he is in - very intense. Memorable - he made quite an impact and his legacy lives on.

4:18 Great series, and Patrick was a wonderful actor with a warning of how things might become if we allow it. Thanks for sharing - must be a very proud daughter.

Loved The Prisoner ❤. Patrick McGoohan was one of those actors that was so brilliant you can't imagine anyone else would be right for the part after he had played it. R. I. P. Patrick. Be Seeing You!👌

It’s 2024 and there’s still fresh takes on the Prisoner.

RU-vid probably does not want us to be empowered by understanding such concepts. .. Be seeing you..

Superb interview, I could listen to Catherine talk all day. Be seeing you.

Brilliant post thank you, as a kid watched all of the Prisoner series, even as far as going to North Wales, visiting Port Merrion with Mum and Dad late sixties , masterpiece from a master !!!!!!

What a great interview, I love the prisoner, every time I watch it, I can see something different, Patrick mcgoohan what a guy, brilliant actor 👏

What a great man, and what an inspiring legacy he left for us.

Best TV show ever. Patrick was excellent.

Because of his quick, clipped delivery, I always felt that there was a barely supressed explosion in him. His characters were always holding more back than they were showing us. This created tension and expectation in the viewer.

We are all living in 'The Village', and are all 'Prisoners', exactly as Patrick, so effectively portrayed in the series, he was a great actor, but above all a great visionary. 'The Prisoner ' should be reshown on TV today, to a brand new audience, but I think with the high level of programming and brain washing we see in most people today the vast majority of people would not understand it, they are all living 'The dream' and are happy and content to live out their lives in 'The Village '.

Of the British actors from the 1960’s Patrick McGoohan and Patrick Macnee are my favorites. Both brilliant character actors.

The N.1's face is himself because it means we all carry inside that polarity, that corrupted side.

They had a class in college about the Prisoner! I liked both Danger Man/Secret Agent Man and the Prisoner!

A fantastic interview with Catherine thank you.

What a great interview a fabulous actor and series

Great interview. Patrick was one of a kind. I was a huge admirer. I was honoured to cast Catherine in a play I produced and she is a lovely lady and fine actress.

This was incredible!

I live near the site of an old stately home, that was demolished in 1930, the Columns at portmerion are from that Hall.

It's so Nice to earring this woman speaking of Patrick Mc goohan.... her father. Me I'am French and love, all there creations TV of Mr Mc Goohan. My prefer serie are "the Prisoner" even if love too "Danger man" and Colombo (With Mc goohan). Love to you Carherine, your father Was a very good man.

There is a script available online titled "The Prisoner" and written by Patrick McGoohan dated 1999, I think it was. Was there ever any serious thought to producing that script for either TV or the big screen? It read like the closest thing we might ever get to an 'official' sequel or reboot of the concept, with the man once known as Number Six going by the name 'Daniel' (a name which means "God is my judge") -- and presumably Patrick McGoohan would have portrayed that character in the film, had it actually gotten made. Does Catherine have any more information or insight regarding this project that, alas, never got green-lit? We want information . . . information . . .

Wonderful interview. Eloquent, clear, lovely voice, indepth, amazing woman. Thank goodness all the right people had the vision and power to make it happen.

McGoohan was a genius and the prisoner a masterpiece, rest in peace sir!

The most immaginative TV seiries ever. A moment of pure genius.

Terrific interview - trying to watch some episodes from the UK and a pop up says "unavailable in your region" !

And here we are. 2024. Patrick McGoohan was a true visionary. |The Prisoner takes its (sadly prophetic) place with Orwell's 1984, Huxley 's Brave New World, and Forster's The Machine Stops. The future of humans capability for failure as humans. Nailed. The Prisoner is greatest piece of television ever made. Saw it in 1984 on Ch 4 in the uk when I was 13 and it blew me and my dad who saw it first in '67 away. I'd seen an episode The Girl Who Was Death a year earlier as part of an ITV retrospective season and immediately asked him about it he said it was bizarre and he couldn't get into it. He didn't get it first time round but we watched the complete repeats and it became Monday night appointment tape telly. We taped it and kept it then bought the channel five video releases. We talked long about each episode. I remember that before its Channel four premiere it was being mocked by comics like Jasper Carrot saying it was so incomprehensible that Channel 4 would be showing it in reverse as it would make more sense. That shows how far ahead of the game McGoohan was. A genuine work of art and a game changer. P.s Thank you again for another treat.

The best 👌 be seeing you.

Classic, intelligent, innovative and long-lasting and thought-provoking series/creation that has stood the test of time, a brilliant idea-driven piece so we question our selves, our place in society and our place in the world. Who controls it and who controls us is at its incisive core. Patrick was brilliant himself and the show was way ahead of its time, the ending being an enigma just like what went before, with no clear enemy or defined or easy " answer ". Left to us to see what we can take from it was a great idea in itself. Patrick was a great actor and a powerful and memorable presence. A fascinating and important interview, thankyou. R.I.P. Mr Mcgouhan.

ive been a fan of the prisoner ever since i saw it as a child .i couldnt always watch it because it was on too late and as a child i didnt totally understand it until i was much older . wow! this is mindblowing stuff !

Thank you for this interview. I was 16 in the summer of 1968, and, for me, two intellectual altering events happened to me. One was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey and the other was Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner. This interview was very special to me, offering an insight into Mr. McGoohan which, finally, I believe helps me solve the riddle of the reveal of Number One. Incredible.

I agreed with Pat its here now

what an incredible series, what is shocking is that such an innovative and brave TV series was first aired in the late 1960s on ITV !!! can you even being to imagine them commissioning anything similar these days with the dross that they have on these days ?!?

Most people forget this was a summer, off season show. It came out of nowhere and grabbed me from the first minutes. Fantastic journey.

Whenever i hear or see Danger man ,i smell strawberry jam on toast lol. as a kid i would get up early with my dad and watch it on aussie tv ,then he went to work and i would watch sat morning tv ,beautiful memories

Patrick Macgoohan appeared in different characters as the killer in three or four Columbo episodes. Is there anything on his relationship with Peter Falk?

15 minute citys

So very wonderful thanks

He was just a genius.

How right you were Mr McGoohan.

Is this the interview that is one of the special features on the Blu Ray Box Set?

Hi Catherine, your Dad was related somehow, Brother in Law I believe to my GP when I was a Kid living in Marston Green, Birmingham mid 1960's...! One day I was in bed, feeling unwell, so he got me out of bed and gave me a ride in his sports car. If only Doctor's were more like that nowadays....! Andrew

Big fan !!!

It was Hooton Hall in Cheshire owned by the Banker who financed the Manchester Ship Canal

Hi. I've made drawings of KAR120C and "The Green Dome"

I watched the original broadcast of The Prisoner and still don’t understand it.