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Webomatica: The Prisoner: The Arrival

  • Zigire · 2 years ago
    Excellent review. I finished watching the DVD boxset over the weekend and it gets a bit ridiculous toward the end.

    I think 17 episodes are a few too many! A lot of the earlier episodes you can definitely watch again and enjoy.

    note to self: Must stop saying "be seeing you"
  • webomatica · 2 years ago
    Cool. Yeah I agree about how they get progressively more bizarre, which obviously - I'll get to.

    Be seeing you, too. Somehow, that makes more sense on a blog since we just view each other's web pages...
  • SpragueD · 2 years ago
    Jason,

    I should be writing a post for my own blog but here I am writing on yours! Talk about procrastination...

    There is a vaaaaaaast trove of info about The Prisoner on the web. It was a cult hit right from the get go. BTW, it was only intended as a 16 or 17 episode series, I believe that's how McGoohan wanted it. And it does get a LOT more bizarre as it goes on -- but, hey, it was the '60s and weird was cool.

    Get this -- The Village is actually a Welsh resort called Portmeirion:

    http://www.portmeirion-village.com/

    You can go there! It's a trip I've wanted to do since I was a kid.

    I love everything about the show, including the music. My favorite episode is Hammer Into Anvil, Patrick Cargill is great as the paranoid #2. You need to keep writing -- I want to know who you think Number 1 is...