Thanks! Neat remembrance of an awesome show! I was a kid when PBS began rebroadcasting The Prisoner in the mid-1970s, and I ate it up! You're not wrong: some of it was pretentious--but I had no idea. This stuff really weirded me out, in a good way. Yeah, I am one of those fanboys that likes to think that Ice Station Zebra (and what did Howard Hughes think of McGoohan?) is the "missing link" between Secret Agent/Danger Man and The Prisoner--but you hit the nail on the head: some of those Secret Agent shows do foreshadow the Prisoner, especially because so many episodes seem to be about Drake being called in to clean up someone else's mess--he's a man who knows too much... Thanks again!
Thanks! Neat remembrance of an awesome show!
I was a kid when PBS began rebroadcasting The Prisoner in the mid-1970s, and I ate it up! You're not wrong: some of it was pretentious--but I had no idea. This stuff really weirded me out, in a good way.
Yeah, I am one of those fanboys that likes to think that Ice Station Zebra (and what did Howard Hughes think of McGoohan?) is the "missing link" between Secret Agent/Danger Man and The Prisoner--but you hit the nail on the head: some of those Secret Agent shows do foreshadow the Prisoner, especially because so many episodes seem to be about Drake being called in to clean up someone else's mess--he's a man who knows too much...
Thanks again!