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highplainsdem

(62,126 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:55 PM Sunday

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 Sunday OP

Ty for sharing! SheltieLover Sunday #1

Yvw! highplainsdem Sunday #2

😃 SheltieLover Sunday #3

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

An excellent, but long, documentary. I had no idea Patrick McGoohan was so highly strung. Intractable 18 hrs ago #6

Why number 6? Doc_Technical Yesterday #5

SheltieLover

(80,440 posts)

1. Ty for sharing!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:45 PM

Sunday

highplainsdem

(62,126 posts)

2. Yvw!

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:52 PM

Sunday

SheltieLover

(80,440 posts)

3. 😃

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:54 PM

Sunday

highplainsdem

(62,126 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

Sunday

Intractable

(2,087 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

18 hrs ago

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

(3,764 posts)

5. Why number 6?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 12:41 AM

Yesterday

Six of one, half a dozen of another.

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