The Prisoner: The Complete Series
This surrealistic miniseries import slipped onto CBS in the summer of 1968 – stunning viewers then, and amazing them ever since. Forget the ill-conceived recent remake. This is the original, starring Patrick McGoohan as a British secret agent who resigns on principle, only to wake up in a remote island community – “The Village” – from which there is no escape, and whose officials rise and fall depending upon their success in eliciting information from the newly designed “Number 6.” Like Twin Peaks, The Prisoner remains singularly bold and audacious decades after its original telecast. Click here. – DB