The Prisoner must have been on about the middle of my graduate-school
days. Many things going on in my life at the time, but I expect that
I saw 80% of the episodes. In the early 80's a friend and I (she who
is now my wife) did a 3-week bicycle-and-train visit to England and
Wales. Welsh friends strongly encouraged us to pass through
Portmeirion; we did, and I kept thinking "I have seen this before."
But never made the connection to the show.
I'll have to go look for the DVD set you mention Godfrey,
stan
On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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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