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highplainsdem

(62,699 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:55 PM Mar 29

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

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.

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For fans of The Prisoner - a brilliant 95-minute documentary on the making of the series, done for British TV in 2007 (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 29 OP

Ty for sharing! SheltieLover Mar 29 #1

Yvw! highplainsdem Mar 29 #2

😃 SheltieLover Mar 29 #3

I'll be interested in hearing what others think of this. highplainsdem Mar 29 #4

An excellent, but long, documentary. I had no idea Patrick McGoohan was so highly strung. Intractable Mar 30 #6

He was very intense, and felt so responsible for that series. highplainsdem Mar 31 #7

Why number 6? Doc_Technical Mar 30 #5

SheltieLover

(81,370 posts)

1. Ty for sharing!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:45 PM

Mar 29

highplainsdem

(62,699 posts)

2. Yvw!

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:52 PM

Mar 29

SheltieLover

(81,370 posts)

3. 😃

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:54 PM

Mar 29

highplainsdem

(62,699 posts)

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

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 08:43 PM

Mar 29

Intractable

(2,328 posts)

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

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:17 PM

Mar 30

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."

highplainsdem

(62,699 posts)

7. He was very intense, and felt so responsible for that series.

Reply to Intractable (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:22 PM

Mar 31

Doc_Technical

(3,768 posts)

5. Why number 6?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 12:41 AM

Mar 30

Six of one, half a dozen of another.

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