Writes Gary North: John Whitehead’s review of The Prisoner revived an old memory. The question always was this: Was John Drake, the Secret Agent, the prisoner? Patrick McGoohan always denied it. But the script editor said he was. Here is what my fading memory tells me. In either the final show or the next-to-the-last one, when Number 2, Leo McKern, reviews the prisoner’s life, he makes a brief reference to the prisoner’s youth. He refers to “Jackie Drake.” Maybe my memory has misled me after 44 years, but that was what I recall hearing. It made an impression on me … Continue reading Who Was the Prisoner?