YOU are Number 6!

Now if you've never seen "The Prisoner", the CLASSIC late 60's TV show masterminded by Patrick McGoohan, dash out to your DVD rental store or Netflix or whatever. I once thought that this show was an allegory. Not any more. Now, in the world we live in of almost omnipresent video cameras and data-mining and so on, i now think of it more as a survival manual.


A very loose spin off from "Secret Agent" (also available on DVD) - McGoohan plays "Number 6", a prisoner in "The Village" - a microcosm for the communities in which we live.
Ace published three paperbacks (pretty scarce) based on the series, and while many feel the first by Thomas Disch is the best, i actually prefer the third, as it really captures the feel of the show. Don't worry too much about number two.....






Amazingly enough, Jack Kirby did a well executed (but unpublished) comic adaption during his stint at Marvel in the 1970's..... here's some pages.......






Hey - even I'M in The Village..... wha' happen!?!

Now - go out and get a hold of these on DVD (from A & E), and watch 'em!
Be seeing you......
hyper (I am not a number! I am a free man!") dave....
yeah, right! As if......
Possibly we are ALL Number 6.......