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I haven't seen any of the episodes for years so I'm dying from curiosity to find out whether seeing them again I'll still think they're great. I'm sure I'll still like them, but great? I hope so. I always thought Patrick McGoohan (like Joseph Cotten) was a tremendous actor who never got enough prime opportunities to demonstrate his talent. And I really like the concept of The Prisoner
Posted by George Kenney on October 13, 2009 10:04 AM 
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McGoohan is God, as great as he is underrated. Hope we soon get a blu-ray of "Danger Man" & "Secret Agent".
BTW, here's a pretty funny episode guide to "The Prisoner" courtesy of BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/prisoner/episodeguide/index.shtml
Posted by: EJK | October 13, 2009 3:39 PM
If you haven't taken the time to watch the Prisoner recently you absolutely should take the time now. This is one of television's few truly great works I think.
Posted by: douglain
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October 13, 2009 5:30 PM
The prisoner is on my all time list of best things as well. Apparently there is a new film being made on it which can't possibly work. Even though current topics like rendition are a major theme of the program, taking it out of its time and place skews the absolutely disconcerting if not reality questioning fact that in US the show, in all its abstraction, was on right after Jackie Gleason. This was when I was in high school. I never forgot it. I "air checked" the audio off the speaker leads of the console tv — anything to save it. And, like Goths today, I attempted to mimic Number Six's street dress as well.
Posted by: Lon C Ponschock | October 14, 2009 1:37 PM
I watched all 17 episodes over a period of about 10 days for free on the AMC site. While there are great moments throughout the series, it was repetitive overall, with uneven and occasionally poor writing. I thought I was going to want to buy this DVD set when I first started watching, but changed my mind. Enjoy yours!
[Perhaps, like anchovies, it's an acquired taste. g.]
Posted by: Ken Brakebill | October 14, 2009 2:14 PM
AMC is currently running The Prisoner series.
Posted by: chduncan | October 26, 2009 9:43 AM