DVD : The Prisoner - Complete Series Megaset (40th Anniversary Edition)

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DVD : The Prisoner - Complete Series Megaset (40th Anniversary Edition)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961758580
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector’s Edition, Color, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 235
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: AAE-75858
Number Of Items: 10
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 884 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1968

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

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: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Never Been Surpassed — Aren’t You a Prisoner, Too?
This is a complete set of actor/producer/director/writer Patrick McGoohan’s masterpiece — a show that went over budget and was poorly understood in the late 60s… but which has since developed a cult following as a sci-fi/fantasy achievement more sophisticated than anything since — even surpassing Star Trek in its intellectually challenging themes. “The Prisoner” surpasses even “Twilight Zone” for its mind warping endings. (Best episode in this regard is probably the outstanding “A, B, and C,” … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Prisoner
Possibly one of the best TV shows of all time. Requires thought from the viewer and a certain open mindedness. It helps to have or be familiar Secret Agent Man.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A PRISON OF HIS OWN MAKING! WHAT IT REALLY MEANT
The Prisoner was a 1968 stylistic, science-fiction fable based on the imaginations of two individuals: Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein.

The core of the series is 7 episodes. One can literally watch these without the others and view The Prisoner in its entirety–as originally conceived:

“Arrival”, “Chimes of Big Ben”, “A,B,C”, “Free For All”, “Schizoid Man”, “Once Upon A Time”, and “Fallout”.

The rest were added to make it more palatable for the American market.

Most … Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - This Was On Television?!?!
Hard to believe something as thought provoking as “The Prisoner” was on TV given all the choices, almost all of them moronic and bad, we have on TV today. The last two episodes in this set are kind of hard to follow–they have that disjointed late 60s style that seems dated now, but viewed as a complete series, “The Prisoner” is fascinating stuff. Can’t say it was ahead of its time (again, look at the crap we contend with now, like “Dancing With The Stars”), but it WAS timeless. You can judge it … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Prisoner
I am very happy with this item and I do enjoy it. Good quality also.

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