What's it All About? The Prisoner: Question Everything

Description:

What’s it All About? The Prisoner: Question Everything takes a deep dive into every episode discussing the themes, commenting on the script and looking beyond the scenes of the programme. Is this the ultimate book on the subject? A bold claim to make for a topic that has had so much written about it since its first airing. If anyone is best placed to write the definitive book, it is David Barrie. Fascinated from the first episode, the question he often hears is, ‘What is it all about?’ Like the show’s main protagonist, he has spent many years searching for the answers. This book represents a lifetime of investigating, questioning and seeking out those involved in the series from writers to actors and directors; he has genuinely questioned everything; from the messages in the story through to the personality of the man behind it all, Patrick McGoohan. Over the years, David has interviewed many who have been involved with the programme; actors, writers, directors and many others involved in the programme, all offering their experiences and anecdotes of their time on the show. He also considers bigger themes that were part of the zeitgeist at the time of the programme airing, questioning, discussing and not afraid to tackle the big subjects. Patrick McGoohan had an overriding mantra, ‘question everything,’ and that is exactly what David Barrie has done in this book, encouraging readers to do the same with his Points2Ponder at the end of each episode chapter. Take a journey through every episode with input from those involved with the programme and David’s astute insight and deliberation taking the reader far beyond the series. If you have ever been intrigued by the programme, wondered who Number 6 is, or are fascinated by how much social commentary can be presented in a television drama, this book is for you, complete with many black and white and colour photographs providing the reader with chances to see behind the scenes.

subjects: ITC (TV),  Spy,  Mystery,  Prisoner

People: Patrick McGoohan

Places: The Village (location unknown)

Times: 1970's