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[[Image:Patrick McGoohan.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Patrick McGoohan, star of ''The Prisoner'']]  

[[Image:Actor Patrick McGoohan.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Patrick McGoohan, star of ''The Prisoner'']]  

'''''The Prisoner''''' is a [[Great Britain|British]] [[television]] drama series starring Patrick McGoohan that ran 17 episodes<ref>[https://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/the-prisoner-an-all-star-appreciation/ Wired magazine]</ref> from 1967 until 1968. It was filmed in [[Portmeirion]], Wales. It provides a disturbing view of intelligence agents and the [[mind control]] theory (see also [[brainwashing]]).  

'''''The Prisoner''''' is a [[Great Britain|British]] [[television]] drama series starring Patrick McGoohan that ran seventeen episodes<ref>[https://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/the-prisoner-an-all-star-appreciation/ Wired magazine]</ref> from 1967 to 1968. It was filmed in [[Portmeirion]], [[Wales]]. It provides a disturbing view of intelligence agents and the [[mind control]] theory (see also [[brainwashing]]).  

The series has been seen by some as an expose of the post-[[Cambridge Spy Ring]] culture, a discussion of 1960s [[counterculture]], an entertaining spoof [[spy series]] and possibly as an allegory for how society forces us all to conform and how it oppresses and ultimately absorbs the differently minded.

The series has been seen by some as an expose of the post-[[Cambridge Spy Ring]] culture, a discussion of 1960s [[counterculture]], an entertaining spoof [[spy series]] and possibly as an allegory for how society forces us all to conform and how it oppresses and ultimately absorbs the differently minded.