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No soy un numero

Author: Santi Pages
Publisher: Applehead
First published: 2021

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Un presunto agente secreto dimite de su puesto dispuesto a cambiar de vida. De regreso a casa es narcotizado y despierta en un lugar irreal. Una comunidad en apariencia apacible llamada La Villa pero que esconde un fabuloso aparato represor y de la que no hay escapatoria posible. Una comunidad en la que es despojado de su identidad y en la que sus captores intentarán que confiese las razones de su renuncia.

The Prisoner: The Essential Guide

Author: Rick Davy
Publisher: Quoit Media
First published: 2017

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Who was Patrick McGoohan?  Why Portmeirion?  How was The Prisoner made?  What car did Number Six drive?  Why the giant balloon?   And what was it all about?
 
All these questions, and more, are answered in The Prisoner – The Essential Guide, a handy guide to everything that made the series such a cult favourite which is still examined, discussed and loved half a century after it was made.  Also included is an easy reference guide to each episode, plus a wealth of behind the scenes photographs, many of which are previously unpublished.

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Interview w. Rick Davy

October 2017
The Tally Ho podcast

Click on the image to listen to the interview at Time for Cakes and Ale.

The Prisoner: An Illustrated History

The Prisoner: A Complete Production Gudie

Author: Andrew Pixley
Publisher: Network Distributing, Ltd.

An Illustrated History, published in 2017

A Complete Production Guide, published in 2007
Edition included w. the 40th Anniversary (UK) DVD box set.

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Fifty years on from its first UK broadcast, THE PRISONER remains as fresh and dynamic as when it was first unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in 1967.
 
Noted television historian ANDREW PIXLEY examines the conception, creation and production of Patrick McGoohan’s ground-breaking series, drawing on original source materials and historic interviews with cast and crew.
 
This brand-new edition adds a wealth of illustrative material, including many rare photographs, some of which are published here for the first time.  This, then, in words and pictures, is the story of The Prisoner . . .

Le prisonnier

une enigme televisuelle

Authors: Patrick Ducher & Jean-Michel Philibert
Publisher: YRIS
First published: 2003

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Critique virulente de la politique, de la science et même de l'éducation, Le Prisonnier possède une véritable dimension symbolique que bien peu de téléspectateurs soupçonnaient à l'époque de sa première diffusion.
 
Bien au-delà d'un souvenir entretenu par une poignée de nostalgiques, c'est peut-être la vision allégorique d'une société en devenir que proposait alors Patrick McGoohan, à la fois acteur principal, producteur exécutif, scénariste et réalisateur, dans ce conte télévisuel en avance sur son temps.
 
Et si, après tout, le Village du Numéro 6 n'était autre que celui, global, qu'on nous propose aujourd'hui ?
 
Retrouvez en détails tous les aspects de cette série mythique au concept hors normes à travers un compte-rendu de sa production et les coulisses de son tournage. Vous trouverez également dans cet ouvrage, abondamment illustré de photos et documents très rares, un guide complet et commenté de ses 17 épisodes, une étude complète de tous ses éléments constitutifs, un portrait détaillé de Patrick McGoohan ainsi qu'un tour d'horizon complet des produits dérivés de la série et des meilleurs sites internet qui lui sont consacrés.

"It's very international . . ."

Beyond the important and eloquent words written by Patrick, Jean-Michel, Helene and Alain . . . French radio and TV have also had a few things to say about le prisonnier.
2017
2007

The Prisoner: The Official Companion

to the Classic TV Series

Author: Robert Fairclough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
First published: 2002

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It’s 35 years since Patrick McGoohan’s thriller series The Prisoner, a strange blend of espionage, psychodrama and fantasy, first entranced the British public.   Every week, viewers watched as the eponymous prisoner, Number 6, imprisoned in a high-tech Shangri-La-style village, was subjected to bizarre interrogation techniques and sinister scientific experiments.  In turn, The Prisoenr would try to escape his captors and, although always frustrated in his bids for freedom, he would sometimes be the moral victor by turning the tables on his anonymous persecutors.
 
With an episode-by-episode analysis, a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, production designs, props and memorabilia, production details, cast biographies and interviews with the cast and crew, The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series is the ultimate guide to what is now viewed as one of the seminal television series of all time.

Robert Fairclough

Interviewer: Helen Percicoe
The Prisoner Virtual Con 2.0
September 2019

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Interview w. Robert Fairclogh

October 2017
The Tally Ho podcast

Click on the image to listen to the interview at Time for Cakes and Ale.

The Prisoner Handbook:

An Unauthorized Companion

Author: Steven Paul Davies
Publisher: Boxtree
First published: 2002

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The Prisoner reaches its 35th anniversary in 2002.  The series has puzzled and intrigued viewers since it was originally shown on ITV in the late 1960s.  Only seventeen episodes were ever made; each one of them is riddled with symbolism and poses unanswered questions.   The Prisoner captures the imagination as few programmes have done before or since and has become a true television phenomenon.
 
Including interviews with Patrick McGoohan, Kenneth Grittin, Alexis Kanner and Anton Rogers, The Prisoner Handbook reveals more information than ever previously known about the characters portrayed, the cast themselves and what is was really like during production.   Complete with a forward by Alex Cox and a full episode-by-episode guide, as well as an examination of the significance of the series today, this is a complete handbook to television’s most enigmatic series.

Le prisonnier,

chef-d'ouevre televisionnaire

The Prisoner: A Television Masterpiece
Authors: Alain Carraze & Helene Oseald
French publisher: Huitieme Art Edition
First published: 1989

US Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
First published: 1995
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A spy story?  A science fiction thriller?  A critique on modern society?   Or all these things, and more?
 
Patrick McGoohan’s startling television series broke new ground in the 1960s, and time has only emphasized the magnitude of McGoohan’s achievement—and increased the program’s popularity.
 
This book, the most comprehensive study of the program yet published contains over 250 photographs as well as an episode-by-episode breakdown of the entire series, complete with script extracts.

The Official Prisoner Companion

Authors: Matthe White & Jaffer Ali
Publisher: Warner Books
First published: 1988

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It is called, with deceptive simplicity, The Village.  It is the world of tomorrow, or today.  A man known only as Number 6 enters its storybook-like confines.   He will learn, over and over again, that inside it there is no freedom, and from there is no escape.   He is without defenses, except for one invisible weapon: his uncrushable spirit.
 
The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGohan, created a sensation when it permiered on television twenty years ago.   Since then it has mushroomed in popularity.   Now, for the first time, The Offical Prisoner Companion presents rare photographs, behind-the-scenes stories, original scripts, and answers to the questions that have long perplexed Prisoner fans everywhere.

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  • Purpose
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