“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.”—Number 6The Prisoner is a television series that appeared on British television in the late sixties. It starred Patrick McGoohan (the star of Secret Agent, who almost beat out Sean Connery to be cast as the first James Bond) as a former spy who’s been whisked away to a Kafkaesque island prison called The Village. Provocative, witty, and thoughtful, in its brief run The Prisoner developed a feroci...more