blog.wired.com - 1/14/2009
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HOLLYWOOD — The Prisoner's bold ambition and cult celebrity earned the '60s show a spot in TV history. Now the creative team rebooting the sci-fi spy classic for the 21st century is hoping to recapture both the dystopian fear and...
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The Corner on National Review Online —
... , AMC recently put all seventeen episodes of The Prisoner online, viewable in their entirety. While The Prisoner has deservedly earned an obsessive following over the years there's even an intriguing remake on the way I thought I'd also note my hearty endorsement of McGoohan's other major TV show, Secret Agent , a.k.a. Danger Man in the U.K. Initially dismissed as an attempt to capitalize on James Bond's popularity (Ian Fleming was initially involved in the show's development, as it started out as an attempt to bring Bond to TV), the show somehow transcended that ...
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skippy the bush kangaroo —
... , which — like the later cliffhangers of similar envelope-pushing programs like david lynch's twin peaks or j.j. abrams lost — confounded conventional expectation and stoked a viewer outrage that mcgoohan admits led him to leave london for los angeles for good. (for an extended analysis of danger man and the prisoner's cultural influence, read wired.com's feature, eerily published hours before mcgoohan passed.) ...
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