{"id":13358,"date":"2009-01-14T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/14\/escaping-from-the-islands.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:25:54","slug":"escaping_from_the_islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/escaping_from_the_islands.html","title":{"rendered":"Escaping from the Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Patrick<\/div>\n

Patrick McGoohan<\/a>, most famous in my circles for the 1960s series\u00a0The Prisoner <\/em>(which he created and starred in, as “Number Six”), has died.<\/p>\n

The 17 episodes of the series are available for free at the\u00a0AMC Web site<\/a>. There\u00a0a new version\u00a0of the series\u00a0in the works<\/a><\/p>\n

Me? I also remember him for a number of other TV roles in the 60s and 70s — especially multiple appearances (in different characters) on Columbo<\/em>; he and Peter Falk were close friends.<\/p>\n

“Be seeing you!”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/div>\n

Also passing away today is Ricardo Montalban<\/a>, most famous in the geek crowd as eugenics superman Khan Noonien Singh in both the original Star Trek <\/em>and in the second Star Trek <\/em>movie.<\/p>\n

He started his career playing Hispanics, Indians and (seriously) Asians in the movies, but went on to a variety of\u00a0fine,\u00a0geeky roles, including the\u00a0voice of Se\u00f1or Senior, Sr.\u00a0on Kim Possible<\/em> — but he was probably most famous for the rest of the world as flogging the “fine Corintian leather” on the Chrysler Cordoba, and as the mysterious host, Mr. Roarke, on Fantasy Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Smiles, everyone! Smiles!” <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick McGoohan, most famous in my circles for the 1960s series The Prisoner (which he created and starred in, as “Number Six”), has died. 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