No: Patrick McGoohan, "Number Six" escaped
The Village of life yesterday.
Seeing The Prisoner in its first run at an early age,
I thought then, as I do now, it was probably the best
allegorical televion to come along.
As Randolph alluded to, there's a re-make in the wings...
coming up this spring on the AMC (American Movie Classics)
channel, the same people who brought us "Madmen".
I suspect The Village of our world now (of renditions and
Gitmo and God know what else...) would in no way be
so quaint. After all, how does a corporate-totalitarian employer
retire a "Jack Bauer". Perhaps the good folks at Blackwater
could chime in...
Anyway, back when it ran, while other kids were outside
playing "Vietnam", I was in front of the box routing for # 6.
--Gerald S.
> GS Is this autobiographical?P
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> Subject: Number Six...
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> has at last
> escaped.
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> Gerald S.
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