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Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner: A Retrospective by Jeff
..I never grew out of The Prisoner, and could always return to it with the same glazed and mesmerized stare. Somehow, I've always lived inside the show.
That's not such a bad thing. No.6 is a pretty solid role model. Sure, he's sexist ("Never trust a woman, even of the feline variety," he says when he's betrayed by a black cat), he's violent (in the penultimate episode, he flat-out murders), and although he's clever as hell, his fits of aggression become his own worst enemy when fighting the machinations of the Village and all its various Nos.2. But he never cows to authority, and he never gives in, never squeals, never breaks. ("I may be a fool," he says to No.2, "but I'm not a rat.") ...in the finale, he must turn his destructive instinct inward to finally become free...

Information on the TV show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-p...-series/about/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening...f_The_Prisoner

The original TV episodes can be watched here:
http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/