Number Six At 50: The 50th Anniversary Of 'The Prisoner'
The series, about an ex-spy chafing against his imprisonment in a sunny, seaside village, was one of the first shows to end with a finale that sharply divided viewers.
It was a little bit James Bond, a little bit George Orwell, and — eventually — a whole lot of Franz Kafka.
It was The Prisoner, a stylish and surreal 17-episode sort-of-spy show that premiered exactly 50 years ago in the U.K. — on Sept. 29, 1967. (Here in the States, CBS started airing it the following summer, on June 1, 1968. Opposite, among other things, Bewitched.)
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