The Prisoner w/Patrick McGoohan-on AMC right now.

Fans still puzzle over this weird, enigmatic drama, a Kafkaesque allegory about the individual's struggle in the modern age."
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They expected #1 to be a Bond man - it was about the most dangerous thing on earth = image of oneself, not a nifty James Bond character.

Part of McGoohan's popular legend is that he turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds (the same grounds that would affect how he played John Drake).

You see, one of the t'ings that is frustrating about making a piece of entertainment is trying to make it appeal to everybody. I think this is fatal. I don't think you can do that. It's done a great deal, you know. We have our horror movies and we have our science-fiction things. The best works are those that say...somebody says, "We want to do something this way," and do it, not because they're aiming at a particular audience. They're doing it because it's a story they think is important, and is a statement that they want to make. And they do it and then whoever want to watch it, that's their privilege. I mean, the painting in an art gallery, you know, you have a choice whether you go and look at this one or that one or the other one. You have a choice not even to go

EPISODE #1 - ALL EPISODES ON AMC FOR A LIMITED TIME - VIEW THEM WHILE YOU CAN:
http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/?bcpid=2517767001&bclid=6012619001&bctid=6081344001