Patrick McGoohan, a man ahead of his time

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Legend has it that Patrick McGoohan was the first choice for the role of James Bond in the inaugural 007 film, Dr. No, but he turned it down, at least in part because he felt the character was too promiscuous. That probably says it all for McGoohan, one of pop culture's great contrarians. In 1968, he would subvert the then white-hot spy genre by creating The Prisoner, perhaps the ultimate cult TV show of all time.

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