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Thursday, November 12 2009

The Prisoner: ‘Fall Out’

The Prisoner's unapologetic payoff of surrealism and absurdism heads into that artistic realm where meaning is defined more by resonance than by immediately identifiable relevance.


Monday, April 20 2009

The Spy Collection Megaset

Rather like the the pu pu platter, there’s too much of one thing, not enough of another in this collection of British spy TV


Monday, October 8 2007

Part 1 - All Time Classics

Where it all began... how TV became the cultural icon it is today, and the seminal shows that offered audiences a glimpse into the medium’s artistic potential.


Wednesday, June 6 2007

Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) - The Complete Collection Megaset 2007

John Drake is the coolest secret agent most modern movie fans have never heard of.


Tuesday, January 16 2007

The Prisoner: The Complete Series - 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

It's a show that still causes heads to spin some 40 years later. But what makes The Prisoner so special is not its spy drama approach, but its anti-conformity agenda.


Monday, April 5 2004

Secret Agent A.K.A. Danger Man Megaset

Patrick McGoohan's Drake is an intensely moral character, but never sanctimonious, a diehard cynic who nonetheless believes in what he does.


Wednesday, May 28 2003

Secret Agent aka Danger Man

John Drake, is about as unlike Bond as it's possible to be, the kind of agent who actually paid attention in spy school.


Thursday, December 5 2002

Treasure Planet (2002)

A space opera in touch with its feminine side.


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