AMC is doing a remake (sigh) but in the run-up to it they are showing all eps of the original series. Comcast has them available on-demand (free) under TV Entertainment...AMC.

The AMC mini series starts 11/15 (http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/). Have no clue about quality, but I'm happy they're showing the original.

It would be tough to beat the original; it was an excellent show for its era.
Oh, well, "questions are a burden for others, answers are a burden for ones' self."
Be seeing you.

Just noticed the original is also available online (http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner-1960s-series/) with a bunch of background info/photos.

I made it through 20 minutes of the remake. I have no problem with remakes in principle but this one suffered from a disastrously boring leading man. No Patrick McGoohan he.

You can't go wrong with an original,...CLASSIC BRITISH SCI-FI!

McGoohan defines "angry man."

Any kits of mini-mokes?

I don't know if I would consider myself a "fan", but I've been watching the original episodes via Netflix. I've been enjoying it for the most part, but it's got that 1960's British television feel to it - kind of the same feeling I got when I watched The Avengers with my dad back then.

I've been watching the miniseries for the past couple of nights and other than a few small visual or dialogue nods to the original series, the miniseries just doesn't follow the original by a long shot. I expected it to be different, but it's kind of like they borrowed the title, some bits and pieces of the original premise and then just ran in a different direction with it.

The miniseries is fascinating to watch, but I don't think that it offers much for those that were really into the original series. As for comparisons between McGoohan and Caviezel....they're playing very different roles and are very different actors in terms of style and performance. I enjoy Caviezel as an actor and he's had a few good bits in the miniseries, but the script seems to downplay any characterization that might have developed if the story had followed the original concept a bit more closely.

Now, if I had to choose which version I would watch a second time, I'd opt for the original without question.

Bryan

Patrick McGoohan: I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!

New Guy: Dude. You shouldn't kidnap people and stuff.

The old guy in McGoohans' clothes was neat.
Rover was still a big rubber ball. BIG! BIGGER!! MAKE IT BIGGER!!!!

The old guy in McGoohans' clothes was neat.

Didja notice he was Number 93?

9 minus 3 = 6.

Yeah, I saw that.

So the village was put together by magneto so the employees from the twin towers could be put there and mind wiped because....uh....,and 2 quits when his son kills himself and 6 is the new 2 and the woman who functioned normally through the whole series is actually catatonic??

So that's where the writers from Battlestar ended up.

Yeah, I saw that.

So the village was put together by magneto so the employees from the twin towers could be put there and mind wiped because....uh....,and 2 quits when his son kills himself and 6 is the new 2 and the woman who functioned normally through the whole series is actually catatonic??

So that's where the writers from Battlestar ended up.

That was a very good summation - I couldn't have said it better, or more succintly if I'd tried.

Bryan

Visit the village (http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/prisoner/prisoner0.htm)... be seeing you.

You can let your own cottage... (http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/ssacc.htm)

Didja notice he was Number 93?

9 minus 3 = 6.

9x3=27. 2+7=9. 9 flipped on its head (as this reincarnation seems to be) is 6.

9/3=3 which is "half of one, six of the other." (One and Six ultimately being the same person.)

... but ya gotta stretch for addition though..

9+3=12. 1+2=3. 3+2+1=6. (also: 3x2x1=6)

Don't know that I want to see the new version (yet).
This won't pollute my admiration for the real number six. More interested in Gandalf's performance than anything else. I am sure I will otherwise but utterly unimpressed.

Be seeing you.

Sat thru ep one. Less than inspiring.

I liked it. I'd like to live there. Breathe in breathe out. More Village!