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An imaginative, mesmerizing---and enigmatic---British cult series about a character known only as Number 6 (series creator Patrick McGoohan) who, after angrily resigning from a top-secret organization, is abducted to `The Village,' a high-tech prison disguised as a placid English resort. Although critically acclaimed, `The Prisoner' only ran for 17 episodes, and most of those focused on 6's struggle to learn the identity of his sinister captors and to escape his lush but mysterious compound.

The Game Season 1 and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 6/8/2009
New releases announced today, June 8:

Astro Boy (2003) - Volumes 1 through 5 will be coming out August 18

The Game - The 1st Season will be coming out September 1

The Prisoner - Complete Series (Blu-ray) will be coming out October 27

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 8 will be coming out September 1

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TV's Secret Agent and The Prisoner Star, Patrick McGoohan, Is Dead at 80 | Today's News: Our Take | 1/15/2009

Two-time Emmy-award winning actor Patrick McGoohan, the star of TV hits Secret Agent and The Prisoner, has died. He was 80, and passed away in Santa Monica, Calif. after a brief illness, his family told the L.A. Times.

McGoohan was born in New York to Irish parents who returned to Ireland when he was several months old, and later settled in England.

His rise to fame in American pop culture began in 1961, when he starred as John Drake in CBS' British-produced Danger Man. In 1965, he reprised the role in Private Agent, an expansion of the show about a spy working for the English government.
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AMC's The Prisoner Adds New Inmates | Today's News: Our Take | 7/25/2008
Following the recent announcement of Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen as the stars of AMC's miniseries reimagining of the 1960s series The Prisoner, the network has named a few more actors it plans to lock up.Joining Caviezel's Number Six and McKellen's Number Two (insert childish joke here!) are Golden Globe-nominated actress Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre, Capturing Mary) as Number 313, Hayley Atwell (Mansfield Park) as Number 41-5, Lennie James (Jericho) as Number 147 and Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd) as Number 11-12. The miniseries is updating the original — an espionage thriller set during the Cold War — to focus on security and surveillance while retaining the franchise's trademark socio-economic commentary. The six-part event is set to debut in 2009. — Adam BryantRelated:• Caviezel, McKellen Locked Up for AMC's The Prisoner• The Joy of 6: A First Look at the Return of The Prisoner• AMC to Set The Prisoner Free in 2008 read more
The Joy of 6: A First Look at the Return of The Prisoner | Today's News: Our Take | 1/2/2007
If the words, "I am not a number, I am a free man!" make your heart all a-flutter, here's some happy news: Number 6 is coming back to TV in January ‘08. AMC, along with the U.K. companies Granada and Sky One, is reviving The Prisoner, the four-decade-old sci-fi cult favorite. "This is truly an iconic piece of television and will fit well side-by-side with the classic cinematic works of all time," Charlie Collier, the mostly movie network's executive vice president and general manager tells TV Guide. For those whose familiarity with TV incarcerations begins with Oz, The Prisoner is a British series about a former government operative who is drugged and taken to a surreal seaside village where everyone is monitored 24/7, no one can leave, an read more
AMC to Set The Prisoner Free in 2008 | Today's News: Our Take | 12/19/2006
AMC has announced a spring 2007 production start for its remake of the 1960s series The Prisoner. The redo, targeted for a January 2008 debut, will feature a premise similar to the original, in which a man known only as Number Six finds himself trapped in "The Village" with others who also have no memory of their previous existence outside of civilization. Per Reuters, AMC is thinking a minimum of six to eight episodes, and will air the original series (which starred Patrick McGoohan) around the time of the remake's launch. read more

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The Prisoner: Arrival
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The Prisoner: Free For All
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The Prisoner: Hammer Into Anvil
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The Prisoner: A Change Of Mind
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The Prisoner: Dance Of The Dead
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Premise: An imaginative, mesmerizing---and enigmatic---British cult series about a character known only as Number 6 (series creator Patrick McGoohan) who, after angrily resigning from a top-secret organization, is abducted to `The Village,' a high-tech prison disguised as a placid English resort. Although critically acclaimed, `The Prisoner' only ran for 17 episodes, and most of those focused on 6's struggle to learn the identity of his sinister captors and to escape his lush but mysterious compound.

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