On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Bob W wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm
That's sad. I watched episode after episode of "The Prisoner"
and some
reruns, but I must declare I was frequently unable to
understand just
what was going on. Other than the simple "He wanted out of there."
I used to watch it on a Friday evening when we lived in Gibraltar.
My older
sibs were away at school, my parents went out for the evening and
left me to
babysit my younger brother, so I must have been 10 and it must have
been
1967-8, and I was an avid fan of The Prisoner. I didn't have a clue
what was
going on, but I loved the surrealism and weirdness and imagination
of it
all. It was many, many years before I met anyone else who'd even
heard of
it, let alone seen it.
Godspeed, Patrick McGoohan!
"The Prisoner" series ran as a summer special through the summer of
1968 on public broadcasting in New York, IIRC. The year I started high
school... I watched every episode. My best friend at the time was so
enamored of the series that he managed to convince his parents to
spend their summer holiday at Port Meriam in Wales the following
summer. It was a fascinating series, an amazing follow-on to
McGoohan's role in "Danger Man" ("Secret Agent Man" to us colonials).
I have both series, in their entirety, on DVD. I'll have to pull out
The Prisoner and watch it again. The DVD set has some very interesting
production notes.
Godfrey
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