Re: Fragment: The Prisoner

[annelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Loved the fragment even though I don't know what this 
> Prisoner thing is. 

The Prisoner, gem in the crown of Lew Grade's ITC seventies 
television series, is a complete mind-job. Patrick McGoohan stars as 
an ex-government agent imprisoned in a surreal world. Re-
named "Number 6" he is forced to learn to live in the decidedly 
unusual community from which escape seems impossible. Who is holding 
him? Why? What "information" do they need? Imaginative, original and 
the very embodiment of Cult TV. 
There has never been anything to touch The Prisoner either before 
it's original broadcast in 1967 or since. Conceived in part by 
McGoohan himself, the story of an Orwellian regime being operated in 
contemporary times is an intriguing one in itself. 
It is set in the peculiar village of Portmeirion in Northern Wales 
in which the concept of scale seems to have passed it's architect by 
and it oozes at the seams with ingenious ideas and disturbing 
imagery. 
Although only seventeen episodes were made, they remain 
exceptionally varied. Ranging from psychological horror to science 
fiction to comedy. One episode even resembled a western. The 
ambiguous nature of the series has piqued the interest of many. 
Theses have been written on the nuances and subtleties of the 
series each installment was full of intriguing ideas, philosophical 
references and visual clues despite the fact that McGoohan has later 
asked anyone who understood what was going on to kindly explain it to 
him.

> Thank you.

No, thank you.

Anne-Lise.