Posted on 07/12/2019 1:02:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom
My favorite was the Campion series.
Thanks for posting...looks interesting. I switched over to my Apple TV streamer to check and Amazon Prime has Season 1 listed for free. Added it to my watch list. Thanks again, there are so many poor or , at best, mediocre series being produced now.
The Prisoner and the Matrix are the two greatest commentaries on modern life.
Almost everyone is trapped in the Matrix now. If you’re reading this, you’re trapped in the Matrix.
First: LOL. Brilliantly played. Second: I feel kind of dumb now because while I have engaged in many many discussions of The Prisoner and pushed the Drake theory hard, I have never thought of that line from the song as proof. Admittedly the song was only for the American broadcast of the retitled show, but still McGoohan had to have heard it.
“The attitude of absolute control of a population...”
In modern times that dates to the French Revolution & the Reign of Terror. Then the Gestapo and the NKVD/KGB.
Then George Orwell codified it into theory in “1984”’s subversive work “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”.
Now, AI technology enables surveillance of the individual almost as an afterthought. Market research or metadata; no telescreen necessary in this age of iPhones.
I had a chilling experience today. My wife & I met a mutual friend from Army days whom we hadn’t seen in years; the latter has me typed as a Trump fan (I am). The subject of car phones for accident location came up but then she went into a rhapsody of how everything we do or say and everywhere we travel and everything we buy (”you buy lots of guns online, and that is noted”) is a matter of government knowledge and that Neanderthals like myself should just go with the flow.
Not “it’s creepy how much they know about us”; but rather how wonderful it is that pre-crime intervention will make us all safer.
Didn’t have an answer for that....like your best friend is now a Pod Person.
Love Matlock, also love Diagnosis Murder. I’m just a big, shameless Dick Van Dyke fan and when I watch that show I feel like my grandmother (who introduced me to fictional detectives to my life long joy) is watching it with me even though she had died before it was on. As to Murder She Wrote, love Angela Lansbury, but that show always seems like it’s not quite as good as it could have been.
The Avengers was SO GREAT.
Do a search on google earth for “Portmeirion” to locate The Village.
Not “it’s creepy how much they know about us”; but rather how wonderful it is that pre-crime intervention will make us all safer.
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Why did you resign?!?!?
> Six is Drake
Of course, certainly, no doubt.
It was obvious but part of the game was he not going to say it.
You know they used Portmeirion on at least one Danger Man; two episodes I think.
There are some other really good interpretations. Of course part of the problem if McGoohan did want Six to be Drake is that ITV owned Danger Man and therefore Drake, and they’re not who made The Prisoner. So from a legal/ financial standpoint Six can’t be Drake.
I also like the interpretation that the whole thing is a parable on the entertainment industry and how it crushes creative people with new ideas.
Portmerion was just rated as 2nd best coastal destination in the UK. It hasn’t changed much since they filmed the series there.
I think Spoiler Warnings for a 50+ year old TV show aren’t required by the Geneva Convention.
You could enjoy the show on three levels—as a show about an ex-spy being held to gain information “By hook or by Crook.” As a metaphor on the political state of the world “We are all pawns here”. or as a larger metaphor over the world and the individual. A richly written piece of work.
Can't wait to get it.
Don’t care much for Inspector Morse. Love the prequel, Endeavor.
Looooooove The Prisoner! On my first trip to England in 1978 I drove directly from London airport to Portmeirion to see the Village for the first time.
Thanks for the reminder to rewatch it. I’m watching my recent favorites, Morse, Lewis and Endeavour, Father Brown, and just finished another watching of all of Midsomer Murders.
I always liked that No. 6 built his own Lotus 7 (shown in the intro).
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