Comments on: Patrick McGoohan, March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009 http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/15/patrick-mcgoohan-march-19-1928-%e2%80%93-january-13-2009/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Moor Larkin http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/15/patrick-mcgoohan-march-19-1928-%e2%80%93-january-13-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-159670 Moor Larkin Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:50 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/patrick-mcgoohan-march-19-1928-%e2%80%93-january-13-2009/#comment-159670 The Prisoner was very successful in Britain at the time. All 17 episodes were repeated the following year (1968) and over the succeeding years, it was often repeated again. 1971 was another year I have noted. Similarly it was repeated in syndication in America every year - there being many more channels in the USA at that time, than in Britain. The fiction about it being unpopular is a misconstruing of the initial complaints stemming from confused viewers after the very first broadcast of Fall-Out and even this story is a little apocrphyl - 300 calls areestimated but audience figures of 10 million are now quoted for Britain, which is a perfectly respectable number...... and 300 is quite a small one. The Prisoner was very successful in Britain at the time. All 17 episodes were repeated the following year (1968) and over the succeeding years, it was often repeated again. 1971 was another year I have noted.

Similarly it was repeated in syndication in America every year – there being many more channels in the USA at that time, than in Britain. The fiction about it being unpopular is a misconstruing of the initial complaints stemming from confused viewers after the very first broadcast of Fall-Out and even this story is a little apocrphyl – 300 calls areestimated but audience figures of 10 million are now quoted for Britain, which is a perfectly respectable number…... and 300 is quite a small one.

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