The cultural turn in intelligence studies

[Razer]

On August 21, 2019 7:51:43 PM PDT, rooty <arpspoof at protonmail.com> wrote:
>Are you really over 60. OMG that is flippen agent you could be my grate
>grate grampa.
>

I'm older still and I remember the rollover from, in the US, "Secret Agent", to The Prisoner, which I thought was VERY excellent even when I was a kid.

You'll note the one recurring theme throughout the whole series. There was NO ONE #6 could trust. Ever. On reading Steve's details I've seen slightly different show creation narratives but one thing I know... McGoohan was DRIVEN to do this. He was willing to fund it out of his own pocket if necessary. Whatever that 'argument with the chief' was about in the last episode (all you hear is thunder) was in some way, irl, connected to his drive to get the prisoner on the air.


I believe all the prisoner episodes are on youtube. I torrented the collection a few years ago. There's also a number of interviews with McGoohan about it on Youtube and quite detailed sociological analyses of the overall show and episodes floating around the intertubz as well.

Ps. The only spy show on the air at the time that was better? Get Smart... or maybe I just had the prepubescent hots for 99.

Rr
Har Har.


>-------- Original Message --------
>On Aug 21, 2019, 3:50 PM, jim bell wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 12:35:46 PM PDT, Steve Kinney
><admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/18/19 8:05 PM, coderman wrote:
>>>
>>>  The cultural turn in intelligence studies
>>>
>>>> Simon Willmetts
>>>> Correspondences.d.willmetts at fgga.leidenuniv.nl
>>>> View further author information
>>>> Pages 800-817 | Published online: 23 May 2019
>>
>>>My small contribution comes in at only 1400 words:
>>
>>>The Prisoner: An Introduction
>>
>>>The Prisoner is one of the most iconic and surrealistic, if not
>> psychedelic, products of the 1960s "golden age" of television.  An
>angry
>> secret agent returns home from hand delivering his letter of
>> resignation, when he is immediately gassed by an undertaker in top
>hat
>> and tails.  He regains consciousness in his own bed but when he looks
>> out his window he discovers that he is no longer home at all:  He is
>in
>> The Village, a deceptively idyllic holiday resort that is actually a
>> high tech prison for spies.  At once the games begin.
>>
>> I am actually old enough (61) to remember watching The Prisoner
>first-run.  It was clearly quite different than typical American fare.
>>
>>                 Jim Bell

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