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From: ellis@FLAIRMAX.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: The Prisoner
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Date: Sat, 3-Sep-83 07:44:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  3 07:44:50 1983
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I'm afraid my TV knowledge ends at this show. Was fortunate enough to see
the `Prisoner' in its first display ~1967. This was the first and last TV
series to grab my attention, in fact to the point of hero worship.

During my last years of high school, I lived in a VERY conservative high
school environment (Colonial Hts, VA.) as counterculture spirits were 
entering my spirit, and then there was this weird guy on TV who lived in
a place where everybody was out to get him.

My favorite episodes were:

o the Chimes of Big Ben - where, in spite of the apparently sympathetic
  people he meets, his choice of reality remains totally within.

o Free for All - Power politics seldom more beautifully illustrated (on TV).

o Schizoid Man - Self anti-confrontation that still evades today's
  language.

o Many Happy Returnd - Odyssean epic with a wonderfully mundane conclusion.

o Checkmate - Power forever destroyed.

o Living in Harmony - Psychedelia par excellence! Byrds fans unite!!

o Change of Mind -
O Hammmer into Anvil -
o Girl Who was Death - God! definitely...
O Once Upon a Time - Die! die!
O Fall Out -

These somehow evade any comment whatsoever. I'd see them if I were you!
One of the worst problems with this series is the extraneous number of
episodes done beyond the original sequence that ended with Leo McKearn.

-michael