number six

Patrick MCgoohan as the Prisoner in the opening scene driving his Lotus 7

My brother the cartoonist is the same way about that show. I believe he also owns the DVD set. I enjoyed it also.

I've never seen the show.

The Gilligan's Island feel of he'll-never-get-off-the-island lost me after a couple episodes. I preferred The Avengers.

Good taste is timeless, buy a watch.

Actually I would put The Prisoner up there with George Orwells Animal Farm and Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orange.

It definitely had that going for it. I don't recall if a reason for his captivity was given.

I recall that blob thing that was always after him. Great show!

I really liked The Prisoner, but never understood the last episode.

McGoohan has explained the meaning of the episode, which in fact contains the meaning of the whole series; that we are prisoners of ourselves - this particular point being represented by Number 1, when the masks were removed, being Number 6. McGoohan asserts we choose to limit our own actions ("I won't" is exactly the same as "I can't") and many choices are made for us; this was partially represented by the Penny Farthing symbol of The Village, which referred to the ongoing march of technology and development, something which none of us - no-one at all - has actually sat down and decided whether or not this is really what we want to be doing, or if we're coping with it, and so on. Finally, in the end of the episode, Number Six, having freed himself from The Village, in fact ends up going back to his old flat, the same place and ways as before - in other words, even after obtaining that freedom, he's in fact back to the very same prison he was in before.

A suggested rationalization of the series and its culmination is that The Village is an institution of the British government that functions to determine whether or not those who know military secrets and seek to return to civilian life are susceptible to giving up that information under interrogatory pressure. After Number Six endures the breadth of tortures, psychological ploys, chemically-induced states and questioning techniques that The Village administration has at its disposal and divulges close to nothing of what he knows, The Village's administration allows him to go free, lauding him for the principles of individualism and personal liberty that equipped him to withstand all manner of interrogation methods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Out_%28The_Prisoner%29

Thanks for the explanation, Dyslexia.

That classic car ended up in Australia,current owner unkown.

"I am not a number,I am a free man!"
"I will not be punched,filed,stamped,indexed,briefed,de-briefed or numbered !