The Prisoner (TV series)
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| Name: | The Prisoner |
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| Creator: | Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein |
| Date(s): | 1967-1968, 2009 (remake) |
| Medium: | tv |
| Country of Origin: | UK, USA (2009 remake) |
| External Links: | wikipedia |
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The Prisoner is a British 1960s TV series. It is a mix of spy fiction and SF, and is sometimes considered to be an example of the spy-fi genre. It was remade in 2009.
The original series has cult status, with a devoted following among fans of British sf. Fans enjoy the series' surrealism & dystopian worldview. Questions such as Who is Number 1? have achieved catchphrase status. It had a fan club named "The Prisoner Foundation" ran by Glenn Magee.
A follow-up to Patrick McGoohan's earlier series Danger Man (shown in the US as Secret Agent, featuring the popular song of the era by Johnny Rivers as a theme song, which ironically featured the line "They've given you a number and taken way your name")
The store revolves around a secret agent know only known as Number 6, who after resigning from his job wakes up in a mysterious place called "The Village". Where everyone is only identified by numbers instead of actual names. 17 episodes were made and it has gained a cult following.
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Gen, multimedia (some crossovers)
- A-Team Through Time
- The Clipper Trade Ship
- Compadres
- Cosmoconnection (1976-1980)
- Crazy Quilt
- CrosSignals
- Eleventh Sector
- The Karenina Continuity Chronicles
- The Laughing Mutoid
- The Man from UNCLE Special Gen Collection
- Of Dreams and Schemes
- Rerun
- Robots, Rebels, and Renegades
- Syzygy
- in the village
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Non-fiction
- En Garde
- Number Six
- The Prisoner, a non-fiction zine
- The Prisoner, a newsletter
- The Prisoner Companion
- Windmills
Gallery
cover of Windmills #1 (1968)
cover of the zine The Prisoner (1977)
cover of an issue of The Green Dome (1980)
cover of Once Upon a Time #20
