Potato
November 3rd, 2008, 05:48 PM
Has anyone here seen the series? I'm on episode 7 now. It seems like it was a bit ahead of its time, but this is coming from someone who was born 17 years after it aired.
It's a pretty interesting show from the 1960's.
The Prisoner is an allegorical British 1960s science fiction television series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan.
It follows a former British secret agent who, after abruptly resigning from his position, is held captive in a small village by the sea by an unidentified power that wishes to establish the reason for his resignation. Episodes typically feature the unnamed prisoner, labelled "Number Six" by his captors, unsuccessfully attempting to escape from or change the authority of "the Village." However, Number Six has numerous victories of his own, successfully thwarting the various individuals serving as the Village's chief administrator, "Number Two" in their attempts to break him or control the Village, causing a disconcertingly rapid turnover of personnel in the position. Eventually as the series reaches its surreal climax, Number Six's indomitable resistance and his mounting blows against the administration eventually threaten the viability of the Village itself, which forces its desperate warders to take drastic action.
imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/)
wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner)
It's a pretty interesting show from the 1960's.
The Prisoner is an allegorical British 1960s science fiction television series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan.
It follows a former British secret agent who, after abruptly resigning from his position, is held captive in a small village by the sea by an unidentified power that wishes to establish the reason for his resignation. Episodes typically feature the unnamed prisoner, labelled "Number Six" by his captors, unsuccessfully attempting to escape from or change the authority of "the Village." However, Number Six has numerous victories of his own, successfully thwarting the various individuals serving as the Village's chief administrator, "Number Two" in their attempts to break him or control the Village, causing a disconcertingly rapid turnover of personnel in the position. Eventually as the series reaches its surreal climax, Number Six's indomitable resistance and his mounting blows against the administration eventually threaten the viability of the Village itself, which forces its desperate warders to take drastic action.
imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/)
wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner)