Dave Cross wrote:
Have you seen the last episode of "The Prisoner" and if so would you also consider that to be "the best TV ever made"?
Or maybe some of the worse...
A think a lot has been said and written about the last episode of "The Prisoner". I'm pretty sure that that episode wasn't anywhere near what Patrick McGoohan intended:
"There are many theories, some quite fanciful, as to why The Prisoner was made up of seventeen episodes - an extremely unlikely number in anyone's book. The simple truth is that, despite it's cult status today, the series bombed on it's first showing and the production, over budget and out of time, was cancelled. The cast and crew, with sixteen episodes filmed (but not necessarily completed), were told that they could make only one more episode to wrap up the loose ends - an episode unwritten and unscripted, yet due to go into production the following week! "
From:
http://www.the-prisoner-6.freeserve.co.uk/episode_aftermath.htm
Liz
