Friday On My Mind 89: The Prisoner
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 14:00 on 11 October 2013
The biggest cult TV show of the late 60s/early 70s may well have been The Prisoner. It was also probably the most enigmatic. What was that last episode about? And what was it with that ridiculous penny-farthing with the canopy?
It does say it all though about free will and freedom in the twentieth century. (And given the recent revelations about GCHQ and their US confréres it seems not much has changed.)
First broadcast in the UK in 1967/8, I never actually watched The Prisoner until the early 70s. I remember it was on at 11 pm on a Thursday night during my first year at University. Believe it or not I stayed up late to watch it. (I wasn’t a night bird in those days.)
All together now: “I am not a number. I am a free man.”
The Prisoner Opening and Closing Titles:
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Denis Cullinan
12 October 2013 at 05:04
QUOTATION: First broadcast in the UK in 1967/8, I never actually watched The Prisoner until the early 70s.
Odd, I did the same thing.
For some reason, this show turned out to be one of those, er, ahr–what is it?–experiences (let’s call it) that prevented me at that juncture of my ha-ha life from going wholly and utterly stark, staring bug-eyed crackers. Reminds me, one of G.K. Chesterton’s readers (he actually had some of these) told him that “The Man Who Was Thursday” (aka “The Man Who was Thirsty”) saved him from a nut-explosion. Eerie to relate, this book flang me into a nut-explosion. All I remember of the story is that a hornbill (yes, hornbill) made an appearance in it.
jackdeighton
12 October 2013 at 19:17
I’ve never read any Chesterton myself, Denis. Not that I can recall anyway.