The Prisoner

[The Lone Gunman]

The original was crap.
It has only achieved cult status because it is so surreal.
It is so surreal because it was cancelled before any of the episodes which would explain it were made.
If it had been left to run its course we would not be discussing it now.

[Tingles]

Stayed at Portmeirion Hotel (in one of the Village rooms) over the New Year for a few days...

I remember waking up early on New Years Day and walking around 'the Village' - no one else about, misty, very eerie indeed.

Remarkable place, remarkable series, remarkable actor.

Well worth a visit

[DaveB]

Yep.

It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.

Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.

McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.

The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE

WHS +1