strange blend of espionage, psychodrama and fantasy, first entranced the British public. Every week, viewers watched as the eponymous prisoner, Number 6, imprisoned in a hi-tech Shangri-La-style village, was subjected to bizarre interrogation techniques and sinister scientific experiments. In turn, the Prisoner would try to escape his captors and, although always frustrated in his bids for freedom, he would sometimes be the moral victor by turning the tables on his anonymous persecutors. Tracing the program’s evolution from sixties’ curiosity to worldwide cult, the book examines the volatile social and political background which shaped its development.
With an episode-by-episode analysis, a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, production designs, props and memorabilia, production details, cast biographies and interviews with the cast and crew, The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series is the ultimate guide to what is now viewed as one of the seminal television series of its time.
PACKAGED WITH A DVD CONTAINING
A CLASSIC PRISONER EPISODE!
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE PRISONER
by Thomas Disch
ISBN: 0-7434-4504-X
He’s a top-level agent, highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out, and they won’t let him quit. He quits anyway.
Then suddenly comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity, in a pleasant, old-style, seaside town—one packed solid with electronic surveillance hardware.
This is The Village. And he is The Prisoner.
If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top-flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who’ve chained his life to the wall?
“Closely based on the extraordinary TV series, far and away the finest thing the medium has done in this genre; while Disch himself is one of the best SF writers.”
— Observer
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The Prisoner ™ and © 1967 and 2001
Carlton International Media Limited.
Licensed by Carlton International Media Limited.
Represented by Bliss House, Inc.,
West Springfield, MA 01089-4107
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All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book
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With an episode-by-episode analysis, a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, production designs, props and memorabilia, production details, cast biographies and interviews with the cast and crew, The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series is the ultimate guide to what is now viewed as one of the seminal television series of its time.
PACKAGED WITH A DVD CONTAINING
A CLASSIC PRISONER EPISODE!
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE PRISONER
by Thomas Disch
ISBN: 0-7434-4504-X
He’s a top-level agent, highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out, and they won’t let him quit. He quits anyway.
Then suddenly comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity, in a pleasant, old-style, seaside town—one packed solid with electronic surveillance hardware.
This is The Village. And he is The Prisoner.
If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top-flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who’ve chained his life to the wall?
“Closely based on the extraordinary TV series, far and away the finest thing the medium has done in this genre; while Disch himself is one of the best SF writers.”
— Observer
A Publication of ibooks, inc.
The Prisoner ™ and © 1967 and 2001
Carlton International Media Limited.
Licensed by Carlton International Media Limited.
Represented by Bliss House, Inc.,
West Springfield, MA 01089-4107
An ibooks, inc. Book
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book
or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
Distributed by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
ibooks, inc.
24 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
The ibooks World Wide Web Site Address is:
http://www.ibooks.net
ISBN 1-59019-446-2
Cover photograph
copyright © 2002 by Carlton International
Cover design by
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