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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767040952
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767040953
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 10
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 884 minutes
Sales Rank: 57346
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1968
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Description:
The Prisoner, one of the most remarkable and challenging science fiction series of all time, follows 'No. 6,' a former government operative sent into a seemingly idyllic but twisted prison known as 'The Village,' where he struggles to retain his identity in the face of sophisticated and relentless attempts by the powers-that-be (known as 'No. 2') to extract his secrets. Patrick McGoohan's complete classic 17-episode TV series is presented in the fan-preferred viewing order, which follows events and dialogue within each story to provide a consistent and enjoyable viewing experience.
Amazon.com essential video:
If a top-level spy decided he didn't want to be a spy anymore, could he just walk into HQ and hand in his resignation? With all that classified knowledge in his head, would he be allowed to become a civilian again, free to go about his life? The answer, according to the stylish, brilliantly conceived 1960s British TV series The Prisoner, is a resounding no. In fact, instead of receiving a gold watch for his years of faithful service, our hero (played by Patrick McGoohan) is followed home to his London flat and knocked unconscious. When he awakens, he finds himself in a picturesque village where everyone is known by a number. Where is it? Why was he brought here? And, most important, how does he leave?
As we learn in Episode 1, Number 6 can't leave. The Village's 'citizens' might dress colorfully and stroll around its manicured gardens while a band plays bouncy Strauss marches, but the place is actually a prison. Surveillance is near total, and if all else fails, there's always the large, mysterious white ball that subdues potential escapees by temporarily smothering them. Who runs the Village? An ever-changing Number 2, who wants to know why Number 6 resigned. If he'd only cooperate, he's told, life can be made very pleasant. 'I've resigned,' he fumes. 'I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.' So sets the stage for the ultimate battle of wills: Number 6's struggle to retain his privacy, sanity, and individuality against the array of psychological and physical methods the Village uses to break him.
So does he ever escape? And does he ever find out who Number 1 is? 'Questions are a burden to others,' the Village saying goes. 'Answers, a prison for oneself.' Within this complete 17-episode set (which contains the entire series), all is revealed. Or is it? --Steve Landau
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "It Takes A Village."
What a treat it is to have this series on DVD, so that we can reassess this oddball series, and finally figure out what McGoohans was trying to say. The Prisoner is frequently compared to Animal Farm and 1984 (especially "The General"). But it owes much, if not more, to Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited and Anthem. Huxley suggested that we control people not by pain, but by pleasure. Everyone is coked-up and enjoying themselves. In the Village, everyone is on perpetual holiday.
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Rating:  - Best Series Ever
What can I say about "The Prisoner"? It was the best when originally aired on CBS in 1968 and it is still intriguing, without being dated. The technology is primitive, but in its heyday the technology was science fiction.
I loved this series so much, this was my birthday present to me this year (41 years later). I will spend many suspenseful, pleasant hours with No. 6 and his cohorts.
Rating: - Great Video and Audio Quality".
Simply Put, This Set Of The Prisoner Dvd's Is Excellent. I Have A 42" Panasonic HD Plasma and They Look Beautiful On It. If You Are A Purist Prisoner Fan, You Cant Go Wrong; With This Collection.
Rating: - Patrick McGoohan's Unconventional Classic!
Unique, wildly unconventional, often frustrating, but never dull, Patrick McGoohan's brilliant 17-episode original series, "The Prisoner" has stirred controversy for over 40 years. Was it a nightmarish vision of dehumanization? A bitter treatise on the loss of personal freedom to 'the System'? A satire of an era when vocal radicals were undermining the Establishment? Or something else, entirely? One of the pleasures of the series is creating your own theory (which McGoohan, himself, encouraged), and ... Read More
Rating: - Be Seeing You
Great collection of the Prisoner series.I used to watch the series on T.V. with my mom,who was entranced with Patrick McGewhan.I am now in the process of watching them again with her!It seems the series got more weird as it went on.It still is quite a unique show.The fighting scenes are the typical unrealistic ones,as they were at the time.(Knock out people with one punch),(he was an olympic boxer, we came to find out in episode 4, I think).Kind of earie how Big Brother is becoming more real today,like ... Read More
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767040952
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767040953
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 10
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 884 minutes
Sales Rank: 57346
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1968