THIS IS AN EASY ONE: You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6?

That’s the secret location where ITV has been holding Patrick McGoohan since 1967.

What an awesome piece of Bond-era twangy electric guitar music and opening title sequence. As James Lileks once wrote, “Life rarely provides the Number Six Resignation Moments. Not that I want to resign from anything, no – but one of the reasons the TV show ‘The Prisoner’ had such a hold on my imagination in college was the resolute assertion of principles displayed by Patrick McGoohan in the opening credits. The walk down the corridor with a look of steely resolve. The passionate denunciation. The resignation, slapped on the table, the leaping tea-cup… What made him resign? You really hope it was a matter of high principle, like assassinating a dictator’s children, and not over his parking space being moved to the other side of the ramp, away from the elevators.”