Patrick McGoohan, star of the most brilliantly obscure TV series of all time, The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80.
Growing up in the state-controlled Britain of the 1970s, the series resonated with me. I often felt like I was living in The Village. Nor was I the only one; I remember the comic John Sessions comparing the famous title sequence dialogue to the frustration of dealing with state-controlled directory inquiries (the equivalent of dialing 411):
Operator: What do you want?
You:…
