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SECRET AGENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). This new series is imported from England, where it is one of the top ten, stars Patrick McGoohan as a British special agent. Premi...
...plot is unimportant: an old guard (Walter Macken) and a young guard (Patrick McGoohan) wait tensely for a reprieve to arrive for the quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly...