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This is the sixth and last episode in a short series about The Prisoner. This one’s about Andrew Pixley’s book /The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide/ which was bundled into the 2007 remastered (and definitive?) version of the series by Network. Rather than an overview or episode gu…

This is the fifth in a short series about The Prisoner, and this time it’s about Six of One and Max Hora’s contribution to the Prisoner shop in Portmeirion, and the two books (plus the map): The Prisoner Of Portmeirion and Village World. Music by Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Com…

Continuing the series of short episode on The Prisoner I’m going to draw your attention to Steven Paul Davies’ The Prisoner Handbook, an “Unauthorised Companion”. Music by Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Follow the link for more music on var…

In the third episode I talk about GURPS: The Prisoner by David Ladyman, from 1990. Music by Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Follow the link for more music on various platforms.

Continuing the short series of Prisoner-related episodes, let’s discuss the 1988 DC comics series Shattered Visage. Music by Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Follow the link for more music on various platforms.

This is the first of a few short episodes on the ephemera surrounding The Prisoner. I’m pretty much starting at the end, with the 2009 6-episode miniseries that “reimagined” the Prisoner, with Jim Caviezel as 6, Sir Ian McKellen as 2, and also starring Ruth Wilson and Hayley Atwel…

This episode I cover Anna Kavan’s Ice, her last novel from 1967. A work of “slipstream fiction” with an unreliable narrator who pursues a woman over an hallucinatory landscape. I discuss the conventional and storygame opportunities, avatar-based gaming (via Dramasystem and Amazing…

Let’s talk about J G Ballard’s climate fiction, focusing on The Crystal World and the short story that preceded it, The Illuminated Man. The Book 00:23 // Synopsis 03:39 // Remarks 14:31 (cosmic disaster, lit analysis (other people’s), temporal colonies, Annihilation etc.) // Other Media 36:56 Musi…

This episode covers Lin Carter’s 1968 Sword & Planet adventure Tower At The Edge Of Time, with a bit of meandering into barbarians, Conan, the 1960s, Sword & Sorcery, Moorcock, Krull, Highlander II and more. intro 00:07 // synopsis 05:04 // remarks 15:52 (Sword & Planet, emergent …