For fans of The Prisoner - a brilliant 95-minute documentary on the making of the series, done for British TV in 2007

[highplainsdem]

I believe we have a lot of fans of The Prisoner here. I'd become a Patrick McGoohan fan when episodes of his earlier series, Danger Man, started airing here in the States with a new name for the show, Secret Agent. I didn't know till I watched this documentary that the Welsh village that was the location for The Prisoner had been used as what was supposedly an Italian village in the very first episode of Danger Man.

Anyway, this is a very well done documentary that I think fans of Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner will enjoy.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty for sharing!

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2. Yvw!

[SheltieLover]

3. 😃

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4. I'll be interested in hearing what others think of this.

[Intractable]

6. An excellent, but long, documentary. I had no idea Patrick McGoohan was so highly strung.

Wow. I made it all the way through.

According to this video, he was progressively becoming an obsessed madman as the series went on.

Count me as someone who thought the finale was excessively weird. It got lost in allegory at the expense of cohesive story.

The identity of number 1 was always there in the opening credits, but visible only in retrospect.

Prisoner: "Who is number 1?"

Number 2: "You are ... number 6."

[Doc_Technical]

5. Why number 6?

Six of one, half a dozen of another.