Prisoner, The Reviews

You want information? By hook or by crook you are going to get it. Probably recognised as the most 'cult of all cult' TV programmes, The Prisoner exploded onto the UK TV screens in 1967 and immediately hit a nerve. Part allegory and part Boy's Own Adventure series, many people believed No. 6 to be John Drake ...  Read the complete review

This to me is the best TV series ever bar none. With Expert use of camera angles and superb music and storyline, Patrick Mcgoohan IS Number Six - The Prisoner and finds himself in The Village with its bizarre mix of oddball characters,giant suffocating beachballs and totally bizarre activities, including human chess, cricket with exploding balls ...  Read the complete review

The Prisoner was a fantastic TV show, and sad act that I am, I have all 18 episodes on video. The programme was actually conceived by Patrick McGoohan (No. 6) and his bizarre pitch was actually commissioned. McGoohan actually had a mission to produce a TV programme that worked on many levels and that made people actually have to think ...  Read the complete review

.....I am a free man! As surreal as Monty Python, as bizarre as League of Gentleman - this "cult" series was truly ground-breaking. I first watched this series about 10 years ago, and now I'm a fully-fledged adult, I still don't understand the programme. However, this is in fact part of its appeal, the producers / ...  Read the complete review

I still don't fully understand this series even after several viewings but that doesn;t matter or reduce the enjoyment. You can watch it on several levels. At one each episode is about the Prisoner's (Patrick McGoohan) latest attempt to escape from where-ever he is. Therefore it is an action adventure. At the other end of the dcale you ...  Read the complete review

This is a programme that will stay in my memory banks for all time. It hints at being a follow up to Danger Man a series about a government agent played by Patrick McGoohan. During the opening credits of The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan is seen to angrily resign from whatever he was doing without saying why and drive home. Whilst ...  Read the complete review

This series is quite mad. Firstly, the prisoner (or number 6 as he's known in the village) doesn't know why he's there, although it's all because he tried to resign from his job, and the entire series is spent with the various number 2s (changing virtually every episode, as they failed dismally) trying to find out why he had quit. ...  Read the complete review

THE PRISONER is one of the strangest television shows ever made. It was created by and starred Patrick McGoohan, just when he was coming off a stint as a spy in the show SECRET AGENT. In THE PRISONER he plays what is believed to be another secret agent of one sort or another who resigns from his position, and is then abducted and placed ...  Read the complete review

In these days of high tec film making many of us still bemoan the fact that they dont make them like they used to. In 1959 ITC produced DANGER MAN,a 26 minute black and white adventure thriller,shot chiefly in film studios the only exterior locations available was North Wales which doubled for foriegn lands.Patrick MacGoohan became ...  Read the complete review

The Prisoner is one of the original cult programmes of Britain. Patrick McGoohan plays the man who resigned from the secret service for a better life in Wales, but didn’t give his reason. In fact, before he reaches Wales he is kidnapped and becomes the infamous “number 6” in the “Village” full of prisoners all ...  Read the complete review