Im not quite old enough for the Prisoner, or it's precursor, but it sounds cool in a David Lynch sorta way...
The Americans is the only "spy show" I ever watched, it was kinda fucking silly, but still pretty good. Watching Soviet "illegals" trying to take down the odious American Empire in Reagan years was a decent conceit ;) On August 22, 2019 3:56:25 AM UTC, Razer <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On August 21, 2019 7:51:43 PM PDT, rooty <[email protected]> >wrote: >>Are you really over 60. OMG that is flippen agent you could be my >grate >>grate grampa. >> > >I'm older still and I remember the rollover from, in the US, "Secret >Agent", to The Prisoner, which I thought was VERY excellent even when I >was a kid. > >You'll note the one recurring theme throughout the whole series. There >was NO ONE #6 could trust. Ever. On reading Steve's details I've seen >slightly different show creation narratives but one thing I know... >McGoohan was DRIVEN to do this. He was willing to fund it out of his >own pocket if necessary. Whatever that 'argument with the chief' was >about in the last episode (all you hear is thunder) was in some way, >irl, connected to his drive to get the prisoner on the air. > > >I believe all the prisoner episodes are on youtube. I torrented the >collection a few years ago. There's also a number of interviews with >McGoohan about it on Youtube and quite detailed sociological analyses >of the overall show and episodes floating around the intertubz as well. > >Ps. The only spy show on the air at the time that was better? Get >Smart... or maybe I just had the prepubescent hots for 99. > >Rr >Har Har. > > >>-------- Original Message -------- >>On Aug 21, 2019, 3:50 PM, jim bell wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 12:35:46 PM PDT, Steve Kinney >><[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 8/18/19 8:05 PM, coderman wrote: >>>> >>>> The cultural turn in intelligence studies >>>> >>>>> Simon Willmetts >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> View further author information >>>>> Pages 800-817 | Published online: 23 May 2019 >>> >>>>My small contribution comes in at only 1400 words: >>> >>>>The Prisoner: An Introduction >>> >>>>The Prisoner is one of the most iconic and surrealistic, if not >>> psychedelic, products of the 1960s "golden age" of television. An >>angry >>> secret agent returns home from hand delivering his letter of >>> resignation, when he is immediately gassed by an undertaker in top >>hat >>> and tails. He regains consciousness in his own bed but when he >looks >>> out his window he discovers that he is no longer home at all: He is >>in >>> The Village, a deceptively idyllic holiday resort that is actually a >>> high tech prison for spies. At once the games begin. >>> >>> I am actually old enough (61) to remember watching The Prisoner >>first-run. It was clearly quite different than typical American fare. >>> >>> Jim Bell > >Rr >Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
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