"THE
OBSERVATION ROOM"
THE
UNMUTUAL WEBITE'S PRISONER ARTICLE ARCHIVE
"Doing
a little homework".
Number
Six, "The General".
This
section of The Unmutual Website acts as a library, or archive, of the many articles
regarding the series written by readers of this website over the years - we
hope you find them interesting reading. Perhaps you have written an article
on the series yourself, or would like to? Perhaps you have a favourite Episode
and would like to share your reasons why? If so, visit our contacts
page and email it to us for possible inclusion. Thanks to all those individuals
who have already granted us permission to include their articles here. The Article
Archive is split into 5 sections ("General Series Articles, "Episode
Specific Articles", "Portmeirion Articles", "Patrick McGoohan
Articles", and "The Projection Room" (The Prisoner Compared)).
GENERAL
SERIES ARTICLES:
THE
A-Z OF PRISONER ALLEGORY
An
indispensable series of articles, by Peter Dunn.
THE
DOOR IN THE WALL
Howard Foy looks at Drugs and The Prisoner.
THE
PRISONER VS THE PANOPTICON
Stephen Gallagher ties together The Prisoner, Foucault, and panopticism.
LEO'S
TRIO
Vaughan
Brunt looks at McKern's three episodes.
BETRAYAL
OF TRUST
Jane Rowe looks at betrayal and paranoia in the series.
THE
REGRETTABLE BULLET
The Cold War's effect on The Prisoner, by Peter Dunn.
20
THINGS YOU NEVER SEE
Rick Davy casts an amusing eye over the series.
I
AM A NUMBER
Erica Kendrick looks at Number Six's numbers obsession.
42
REASONS WHY I LOVE THE PRISONER
Jennie Fiddes lists her a few of her favourite things.
IF
THE 17 EPISODES WERE.....UPDATED
3/10/07
Puns a plenty in these alternative episode title lists.
PROGRESS?
Adrian Hudson asks if Society has moved on from the series' warnings.
THE
PRISONER - FOR A NEW GENERATION
The series is just as relevent in 2005, argues Jennie Fiddes.
PRISONER
Kenn Thomas looks at secret agents.
ROVER
EXPOSED
Steve
Dix presents a light-hearted Rover Instruction Manual
LOST
FICTIONAL EPISODES UPDATED
3/10/07
Andrew Hunt presents some satirical wiped episodes.
EPISODE
SPECIFIC ARTICLES:
FIRST
IMPRESSIONS
New Prisoner fan Steve Yarde gives his "first impressions" of the
episodes in a series of articles.
A,
B, AND C:
THE
UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL
Peter Dunn recalls the butchering of a classic.
FREE
FOR ALL:
A
PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST
Gareth Thomas examines the episode.
DANCE
OF THE DEAD:
DEAD
TO THE WORLD
Gareth Thomas looks at the episode in a new light.
FOOL'S
PARADISE
The Roland Walter Dutton conundrum, by Erica Kendrick.
A
CHANGE OF MIND:
A
CHANGE OF MIND AND R.D. LAING
Tony Woodrow takes a psychological look at the episode.
IT'S
YOUR FUNERAL:
KILLING
THE KING
Howard
Foy examines the uniqueness of a much-maligned episode.
LIVING
IN HARMONY:
A
LIFE IN HARMONY?
Jill Mills on her love for the Prisoner western.
HARMONY
REVISITED
Brian Watson re-watches the episode after a long gap.
THE
GIRL WHO WAS DEATH:
SEX
AND VIOLENCE
Tony Woodrow looks at The Girl Who Was Death and the Marquis De Sade.
FALL
OUT:
DESPERATE
HOURS
Jane Rowe on her dislike of the series' conclusion.
PORTMEIRION
ARTICLES
MEETING
SIR CLOUGH
Vaughan Brunt recalls the first Prisoner convention in 1977.
PATRICK
McGOOHAN ARTICLES
THE
McGOOHAN PHILOSOPHY
Roger Ffoulkes on what makes McGoohan a media prophet.
ALSO
IN THE ARCHIVE:
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A series
of articles comparing various films to "The Prisoner". Do you see
Prisoner influences in any films? Or a film's influences in the series? If so,
send your article to us via our contacts page for
possible inclusion.
Click HERE
for a series of articles by Ryan Corey "Ego, The subconcious and The Unmutual"
written from a Village authorities perspective.
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