Nitpicking: The Prisoner

Sep 19 2021 8 ep. 95

Nitpicking: The Prisoner Podcast artwork

Where we take the avant-garde 60s television series, look at it with jaded eyes, and then tell you everything that's wrong with it.

TV & Film Comedy

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Episode 1: Arrival

We review the series' start, give a little of its historical context and lose it as we follow the bouncing ball...

Episode 2: Free for All

The experiment continues, but with a political theme as Six runs for high office and...stuff happens.

Episode 3: Dance of the Dead

We realize the Prisoner is more poetry than prose as the first -- and only? -- female Number Two puts Number Six on trial for crimes against the Village. All plot, no story, but the costumes are nice.

Episode 4: The Chimes of Big Ben

Guest commentator Piers Marchant talks with us about the historical and artistic context of The Prisoner as the now-indoctrinated Number Six tries to escape the Village via Art.

Episode 5: A. B. and C.

All the problems of The Prisoner on full display as we examine the episode that broke guest commentator Jill Neff.

Episode 6: The General

We discuss education, smoldering gay glances, and how to destroy computers in a Star-Trekian way with guest commentator Cynthia Taylor.

Episode 7: Many Happy Returns

We discuss Number Six's silent birthday and the wardrobe of Mrs. Butterworth with our guest Tim Allen, who has learned how different The Prisoner is this time around without the help of pizza and weed.

Episode 8: Once Upon a Time and Fall Out

We bring the experiment to a close with the utterly incomprehensible two-part conclusion to The Prisoner, and lay out what comes next.