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The Prisoner: season 1, episode 17
"Fall Out"
November 6, 2009 - 10:11a.m.
"It means what it is."
-Number 6Next year is Lost's finale season. I have high hopes; for all its ups and downs, the show has never completely lost me, and given what happened at the end of last ...
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The Prisoner: season 1, episode 16
"Once Upon A Time"
October 30, 2009 - 10:10a.m.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages...
-William Shakespeare
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The Prisoner: season 1, episode 14-15
"Hammer Into Anvil" / "The Girl Who Was Death"
October 23, 2009 - 11:10a.m.
"Hammer Into Anvil"
When number 2 references the Goethe quote, "Be the anvil or the hammer," he sounds very sure of himself. He's explaining how he intends to break 6. In 2's mind, 6 is the anvil, and ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 12-13
"Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling" / "A Change Of Mind"
October 16, 2009 - 11:10a.m.
"Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"
So, this one, we should probably cut a little bit of slack. Since Patrick McGoohan was away filming Ice Station Zebra (an okay movie that benefits hugely from his presence), "Do Not Forsake ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 10-11
"Living In Harmony"/"It's Your Funeral"
October 9, 2009 - 10:10a.m.
"Living In Harmony"
When CBS first aired The Prisoner, it skipped "Living In Harmony." According to some, the network blinked because the allegory of a man refusing to pick up a gun was too closely linked to the burgeoning protest ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 8-9
"The General" / "A., B., and C."
October 2, 2009 - 10:10a.m.
"The General"
It had some swell action sequences and a cool concept, but sometimes I think the appeal of The Matrix can be boiled down to one simple line: "I know kung-fu." Finding out that everything you've ever seen ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 6-7
"Many Happy Returns" / "The Schizoid Man"
September 25, 2009 - 10:09a.m.
"Many Happy Returns"
And once again, I have reason to quibble with the KTEH order (which could mean I was wrong to pick it, but really, the whole reason to have different orders is to quibble about them). To me ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 4-5
"The Chimes of Big Ben" / "Free For All"
September 18, 2009 - 10:09a.m.
"The Chimes of Big Ben"If I was trying to get someone hooked on The Prisoner, "The Chimes of Big Ben" is the episode I would show them first. It's not the most innovative, and I don't think ... -
The Prisoner: season 1, episode 2-3
"Dance Of The Dead" / "Checkmate"
September 11, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
Starting with "Dance of the Dead," we've got our basic opening sequence locked in: a shorter version of Number 6 quitting his job and getting kidnapped, then him waking up in the Village and seeing the title of the ...
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The Prisoner: season 1, episode 1
"Arrival"
September 4, 2009 - 09:09a.m.
"It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next!"
But that's not exactly true, is it.
Welcome to the Village. Here, there's a smile on every face, a handshake in every grip; and if it ...
