After Secret Agent/Danger Man, actor Patrick McGoohan co-created his next series, The Prisoner.  In it, his character is a British secret agent who resigns from his job because “I know too much.”  He is kidnapped, held captive in a place called The Village, and labeled Number Six.  The Village was run by Number Two.  But […]

Johnny Rivers provided the opening theme to the U.S. edition of Secret Agent, starring Patrick McGoohan.  “Secret Agent Man”‘s lyrics, “They’ve given you a number and taken ‘way your name” are said to have inspired McGoohan for his next series, The Prisoner.

In July this year, animation historian and Disney expert Jim Korkis hosted a video, “Walter E. Disney’s Love of Steam Trains,” which can be found here: http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/news/steam-trains/ Now he has another video he wrote and narrated, “The Fabric of Holiday Storytelling at Epcot,” online here: http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/news/hatw-video-2011/ Jim talks about the Holiday Storytellers at Epcot, and […]

Jymn Magon, co-creator of Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, is a talented producer and storyteller whose website can be found here. When writing for television, writers develop a script beginning with springboard, then progressing with premise, outline, first draft script and final draft script. Jymn examines the outline phase in this enlightening article here. […]

Thirty years ago, animation fans Don Markstein and GiGi Dane began an amateur press association—an “apa”—devoted to the enjoyment and study of animated cartoons. This was APATOONS. A maximum of 30 members would send copies of their ‘zines to a Central Mailer, who would then circulate copies among the membership. Copies were not made available […]