Got the "Prisoner" complete DVD set for xmas: eerie parallels

[Lerkfish]

Now that I can watch each episode in order....
the "Village" is exactly what the neocons want the whole world to be...very scary.

but on the other hand, what a great christmas present! one of the coolest tv series ever made in my hot little hands!.

"I am not a number! I am a FREE MAN!".

[derbstyron]

1. Great show.

I got the DvDs awhile back.

The parallels are frightening.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. "I will not be stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"

I'll be looking for the files on the torrent trackers BTW :-)

[tuvor]

3. Self-delete

[mcscajun]

4. I've been building the set one 'box' at a time..

...and soon the marathon will begin!

However...I haven't decided yet which 'order' I'll being with...opinions vary on the 'true order'; production order, airing order, or the order that Patrick McGoohan had in mind, and a few others. :P

here's the dispute and the various 'orders':
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/the-prisoner/part1/

[Lerkfish]

5. I'm watching the box set order, but reading the "order debate"

arguments and weighing them. In the box set, an interview with Bernie Williams, he gives direct insight into how one episode was shot sixth, but McGoohan felt it was too intense to use except as the lead-in to the last episode.

thanks for the link, though, that's a more in depth discussion.

I really NOW want to get the secret agent man series, because I've never seen any of those episodes at all, though I remember watching the prisoner as a child.