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Eeyore wrote:
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'The Prisoner' was always clearly full-blown escapionist nonsense. Along
with the
likes of The Avengers. Entertaining but not to be taken seriously ever.


Indeed... In one of the many cycles of airing 'The Prisoner' on PBS here
in the
States, there was 15 minutes of psycho-social analysis and commentary at
the end
of each episode, some segments even included Mr. McGoohan who evidently
had some
control over production and scripts. It was all very heavy, full of
cold-war themed
allegory and psychiatric theory, existentialism, psychedelic references,
etc., etc.

BTW, humor My spell checker always suggests replacing your handle with
'Eyesore' /humor

Regards,

Michael

I seem to think that Patrick McGoohan was executive producer or some such,
and the concept was born out of his earlier black and white show "Danger Man
". I remember seeing an interview with him ( which was rare as he didn't do
interviews about the show normally ) on a programme that examined the whole
series, and he was asked about the final two parter "Fallout" I think it's
called. He said that by that time, the whole story thread had gone out of
the window, and they literally had no clue as to how to end it, or even
really what exactly it had been about in the first place. It had basically
just got swept along with the hype and its popularity, until it became a
living thing just existing to keep the fans happy. It was a brave decision
to end it in the way that they did, and it probably let a lot of fans down.
I love Lost to bits - except when it's going through one of its frustrating
patches - but I think that there may be rather more parallels with The
Prisoner than are at first apparent, and that Lost might be heading down the
same road ...

Arfa