Tag: The Prisoner

• Great TV: The Prisoner

  

  Who is Number 1? If you are Number 6 this is a serious question, since Number 6 asks Number 2 this at the opening of every episode of The Prisoner. First airing in Canada in 1967, this spy-sci fi-mystery-thriller was unlike anything ever seen before at the time. a sort of 1960s version of Twin […]

  Mike Gray

  August 16, 2020

  culture, television

  cult classic, cult television, Great TV, influential, Patrick McGoohan, surreal, The Prisoner

• Great TV: Introduction

  

  Look. That’s all TV asks of its audience: just look. Watch. Turn it on and let the light and shadows pour over your eyes and sound fall upon your ears. There’s never been anything easier than to sit still and let the jumping box work its hypnotic unblinking gaze on your readily open psyche. It’s […]

  Mike Gray

  May 24, 2017

  culture, television, Uncategorized

  Arrested Development, Darkplace, Deadwood, Firefly, Fortitude, Frasier, Great TV, I Claudius, Look Around You, Parks & Recreation, Spaced, television, The Prisoner, The Returned, The Wire