In celebration of AMC’s re-imagined The Prisoner and of the recent blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “Hammer Into Anvil” Another great episode, with (not surprisingly) a New Number Two, who starts the episode…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, Part 9: Wherein some pawns move themselves
In celebration of AMC’s re-imagined The Prisoner and of the recent blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “Checkmate” Now this is another great episode, with McGoohan leading a mini-rebellion against The Village… one that…
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Revisiting the Prisoner, Part 8: Where not all the masks are worn
In celebration of AMC’s re-imagined The Prisoner and the recent blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? Yes, I’m running behind. The original intent of this series of posts was to re-watch all the original…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 7: Wherein McGoohan finds that you can’t go home again
In anticipation of the re-imagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “Many Happy Returns” McGoohan wakes up in a Village that…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 6: Where we find higher education in The Village is not all its cracked up to be.
In anticipation of the re-imagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “The General” “You’re never too old to learn.” A university…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 5: Wherein McGoohan chews up twice the amount of scenery as usual
In anticipation of the re-imagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “The Schizoid Man” Ah, the inevitable “Evil Twin” episode. I…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 4: Wherein McGoohan runs for office and, by winning, loses.
In anticipation of the re-imagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “Free for All” “Obey me and be free!” That’s a…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, Part 3: This episode sponsored by the letters “A, B and C”
In anticipation of the re-imagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? “A, B and C” This was an… interesting episode. The…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 2: Wherein McGoohan (almost) meets his match in Rumpole of the Bailey
In anticipation of the reimagined The Prisoner, coming to AMC November 15th, and in celebration of the new blu-ray release, I’m re-watching all 17 classic episodes. Join me, won’t you? Ah, yes, I now reflect on “The Chimes of Big…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, part 1: whereas McGoohan glares at various people, places and things
There are few things in life I love more than The Prisoner, that great 1960s spy series that was the brilliant creation of actor/writer/producer Patrick McGoohan. I wrote of many of the reasons I loved it in my obituary of…
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The Prisoner makes its mark at Comic Con…UPDATED
I said if something really cool would come out of Comic Con I’d post, and here’s the first example. The new “reimagining” of the classic The Prisoner has debuted both an exclusive comic book and posters. You can download both…
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VIDEO: Is AMC’s The Prisoner a remake… or a sequel?
Anybody who knows me well knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE Patrick McGoohan’s classic series The Prisoner. It was (and is) incredibly influential to me and I would not have developed my independent streak and distrust for authority if it was not for that show…
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What should I believe? It’s an odd question, but it’s one we have all had at one point or another. We may have not even expressed this question consciously – we may have absorbed what other people told us, and…
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Wow! All 17 episodes of The Prisoner, free online!
AMC, who is working on a new miniseries based on The Prisoner (one of my favorite shows), has just posted all 17 original episodes of the 1960s surreal spy series online. The site, with lots of extra content, is here.…
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OK, this is too cute – the first episode of The Prisoner, with stuffed animals…
I can’t not link to this, being a huge Prisoner fan… The first episode of The Prisoner, using stuffed animals. [youtube]wLXshSkZiFs[/youtube] Fantastic.