Rip # 6

Pareick McGoohan has died. My heart just broke a little.

Jesus. Is Lit now the obituary section of the intewebs?

Why? Where are all the other obits?

Bumping for any Prisoner fans.

You've certainly got a fan here. I here they're starting on a rebuild of the series. To bad there were only 17 episodes.

By the way, the Literotica cemetary is about 15 threads down.

JBCorbell said:

You've certainly got a fan here. I here they're starting on a rebuild of the series. To bad there were only 17 episodes.

By the way, the Literotica cemetary is about 15 threads down.

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I just saw it, sorry. My explanation is in there.

I was given the DVDs of the series and thought it was way ahead of that kind of show and nothing has come along since quite as clever.

Thanks for posting.

JBCorbell said:

... By the way, the Literotica cemetary is about 15 threads down.

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And funnily enough, it's spelled incorrectly there as well.

Alegra_Duncan said:

... I was given the DVDs of the series and thought it was way ahead of that kind of show and nothing has come along since quite as clever...

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I remember when it first was on broadcast television. Back in the '60s there were quite a few weekly 'variety' shows: songs and comedy sketches and guest performances...the format eventually evolved into SNL and the like, but these were in prime time and rather tame by comparison (and nothing like what's allowed on cable today). But because the programs were unique every week, they generally had a long summer hiatus, and rather than run repeats, the networks would sometimes buy programmes from the UK. The Prisoner was one of them. Monty Python's Flying Circus was another. They were so strange, so bizarre, so mesmerising.

But that's over forty-years ago.