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Book Review, © Copyright 2000, Jim Loy
Last year, I wrote the following book review:
The Prisoner - by Dave Rogers
I have waited many years for the BBC television series The Prisoner to come out on video. Apparently, it never will. This book is the next best thing. The series consisted of 17 episodes in 1967, starring Patrick McGoohan as Number 6, also known as the Prisoner. He was a spy who no longer wanted to be a spy, and found that he could not just retire. Why did he want to retire? Could he be trusted? Did he have hidden motives? Had the other side gotten to him? So, he was imprisoned in a surrealistic village on a coast somewhere. And a battle of wills began, as a wide variety of characters may have tried to get him to confess to something or other. Or are they all prisoners, like him? And who runs the place, the "good guys" or the enemy? It is hard to say just what was going on.
This book is not listed by Amazon.com.
Well, Columbia House (a club) sells the video tapes. My thanks to the reader who informed me of this. Normally you get one tape a month, and pay for them as you receive them. The Prisoner series involves 17 tapes. I bought all 17 at once (for over $340). And they are very good. I recommend them. I am considering getting the Dr. Who tapes (65 tapes for over $1000). I may have to do that one month at a time.
Now A&E seems to be selling the first fourteen episodes. The other episodes will certainly follow later.