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As we learn in Episode 1, Number 6 can't leave. The Village's "citizens" might dress colorfully and stroll around its manicured gardens while a band plays bouncy Strauss marches, but the place is actually a prison. Surveillance is near total, and if all else fails, there's always the large, mysterious white ball that subdues potential escapees by temporarily smothering them. Who runs the Village? An ever-changing Number 2, who wants to know why Number 6 resigned. If he'd only cooperate, he's told, life can be made very pleasant. "I've resigned," he fumes. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." So sets the stage for the ultimate battle of wills: Number 6's struggle to retain his privacy, sanity, and individuality against the array of psychological and physical methods the Village uses to break him.
So does he ever escape? And does he ever find out who Number 1 is? "Questions are a burden to others," the Village saying goes. "Answers, a prison for oneself." Within this complete 17-episode set (which contains the entire series), all is revealed. Or is it? --Steve Landau
| ACTORS: | Prisoner |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1967 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A & E Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Box set |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 10 |
| UPC: | 733961703351 |
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In praise of "Rover" One of the weirdest television shows of the 60s. It has maintained a cult following to this day. <
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> Patrick McGoohan was asked to do another episode of the popular Secret Agent Man but he came up with a counter proposal - he would return to TV if he was allowed control over a brand new series. The result was "The Prisoner" <
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> Every episode begins with him driving his sports car to a government building where he resigns as a secret agent. He returns home where he is sprayed with sleeping gas. When he wakes he finds himself in a strange little hamlet ("The Village"). And with every episode he asks "who is number 1 ?" "the response is always "I am number 2 -you are number 6" to which McGowan always replies "I am not a number I am a free man". <
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> The quaint hamlet where he is imprisoned is almost a type of utopia if it were not for the fact that its purpose is to extract information from the villagers. The village's location is unknown and looks like a generic and slightly Victorian era sea side town. The villagers are all assigned a number apparently corresponding with their order of importance. <
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> Every episode begins with McGoohan waking and with every episode McGoohan tries another way of escaping. In just about every episode the man who runs things, number 2, is replaced. <
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> Number two's control center is an odd place full of all sorts a gadgets and displays and a man looking as through he is closely monitoring something from the perch of something that looks like a large teeter tauter that slowing moves up and down. <
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> My favorite character is "Rover" a spherical blob that patrols the village and when necessary, it is pressed into devouring an inmate. <
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> Rover, when summoned, bubbles up from the sea like Freud's image of thoughts bubbling up from the Id. Although I believe the show is open to numerous interpretations if you think Freud it will all make sense to you in the end. <
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>Excellent !
"It Takes a Village"
Hillary Clinton said it best, it takes a village, and if you don't believe this, then you need to watch this. "The Prisoner" starring Patrick McGoohan is a brilliant look at where are society is taking us, and every day seems to bring the many messages of this show more to life.
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>Get this set, then clear your schedule, this show is addicting, exciting, mindbending, and most of all, it is instructive. You will understand modern life better after watching it.
Resign Yourself to the Box Set
THE COMPLETE PRISONER is must for followers of the 1960's cult series. Thankfully it is available as box set. Save yourself a lot of anxiety and purchase the whole series at once. Those who purchased the smaller incremental DVD packages found themselves buying the rest of the set anyway.
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>Who is the Prisoner and what is the Village? Not even PRISONER star Patrick McGoohan will provide the answer. The episodes alternate between psychedelic and bizzare to straight-forward spytech. However, as a child in the 1960s, THE PRISONER appeared simply as the story of an ex-secret agent's incarceration and escape attempts.
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>The television series was way ahead of its time. In the United States it served as a temporary replacement for the Jackie Gleason show and did not garner magnificent ratings. It was in syndication that the show acquired a following.
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>Patrick McGoohan stepped out of his role of John Drake from DANGER MAN and right into THE PRISONER. Unfortunately, the series was designed to be of limited duration. As such, the episodes are not numerous. McGoohan held tight reins on the production and grudgingly allowed a few additional episodes to be filmed.
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>The DVD episodes are of excellent quality, particularly when compared to the old VHS copies. Additionally, this collection contains The Prisoner Video Companion, as well as The Alternate Chimes of Big Ben. The 'Alternate Chimes' is the only episode that appears to be straight off of an old 16mm print -- complete with scratches.
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>Each DVD is complete with trivia and other production material extras.
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>Get the whole set and share the Prisoner's challenges.