Rating: 
Summary: Absolutely the best!
Review: "The Prisoner" in my opionion is the most imaginative television series ever produced. I saw it as a teenager when it was initially shown in the US as a summer replacement series and I was in awe of it! The final two episodes are perhaps the two most mindblowing and imaginative two hours ever shown on TV...even today I am very impressed with the quality of this program on almost every level. True, some of the effects are lame by todays standards but that does not detract from the greatness of this program...This series operates on several levels...on the surface, it is an exciting spy story as we try, along with Number 6, to determine just who captured him and brought him to the Village. However, it is also a great psychological thriller that grows on you with each episode until the incredible finale in episodes 16 and 17.... I highly, highly recommend it!!!! It is well worth the price!
Rating:
Summary: The Village Lives On
Review: What can I say, It's The Prisoner.
You either love it or hate it.
All the DVD's are 5 stars as far as the video & audio quality
Except for:
(Another reviewer here also posted the audio problems on the Alter. Version of Big Ben. I believe it's not the DVD, it's the master copy they had to work with. It is watch able but the audio is annoying. I guess we can't complain to much since it was an added feature.) I think a nice touch would have been to include the soundtrack with the 10 disc set. It might have been to tall of an order for A&E to fill though. I know they had 2 versions of the soundtrack floating around on vinyl years ago. I was lucky enough to obtain one of them. I have yet to ever see another again. Also an actual foldup map of the village would have been a great idea as well. Be seeing you!
Rating:
Summary: For fans of the series: this is what you've been waiting for
Review: As a long-time fan of the series, catching it first on PBS and then again on A&E, I found The Prisoner Boxed-set better than I expected. From the individual DVD packaging to the dead-on menus that maintain the series' tone, it is immediately clear that a lot of care went into this set. The episodes themselves all look great with the Village's bright colors standing out better than I've ever seen. Throw in a couple of documentaries, an alternate version of The Chimes of Big Ben, and a trivia game for every episode, and you've got a keeper.
Rating: 
Summary: Watch the first and last episodes - skip the rest
Review: Love the premise, the set, the acting, the writing, the dialogue. All very smart, ambitious and provocative. But jeez-louise, after the third episode or so it gets kinda monotonous.
Rating:
Summary: Warning on the audio
Review: I won't waste my time describing what a great series this is. I would, however, like to post a warning.
I first recorded all 17 episodes on a BETA VCR about 15 years ago when the series ran on a public broadcasting station. I then copied them over to VHS when BETA disappeared. Needless to say, the quality of my copies were less than great. I couldn't wait to get ahold of this series in DVD.
I must admit to being very dissappointed in the quality of the audio soundtrack on the Alternative version of Chimes of Big Ben. It was really unlistenable. Did I just get a bad copy here? Fortunately, I ordered thE ALTERNATE COBB on video ten years ago. Still, I expected better on DVD. As far as Arrival, the audio and visual are fantastic and worth the price of admission. I am rating this four stars because of the audio problem in the alternate Chimes of Big Ben.
As I continue through the remainder of the episodes, I fervently hope that I encounter no further problems.
Rating:
Summary: This is what DVD is all about!
Review: Having all of these episodes in brilliant color at one's fingertips reminds me what DVD is all about. No disappointments here + some neat extras within the set. 884 minutes of episode viewing + additional content. Fantastic.
Rating:
Summary: Nice Set. Shame about the price.
Review: Nice set. Shame about the price. It would be nice if it were put onto 5 discs. Great stories though.
Rating:
Summary: HA! Glad I waited...
Review: I knew that A&E was going to rerelease these as one big boxed set. I held off on buying them specifically for that reason (even if I plunked down tons of money for the VHS version Columbia House put out a few years back).
Rating:
Summary: Absolutely the best!
Review: "The Prisoner" in my opionion is the most imaginative television series ever produced. I saw it as a teenager when it was initially shown in the US as a summer replacement series and I was in awe of it! The final two episodes are perhaps the two most mindblowing and imaginative two hours ever shown on TV...even today I am very impressed with the quality of this program on almost every level. True, some of the effects are lame by todays standards but that does not detract from the greatness of this program... This series operates on several levels...on the surface, it is an exciting spy story as we try, along with Number 6, to determine just who captured him and brought him to the Village. However, it is also a great psychological thriller that grows on you with each episode until the incredible finale in episodes 16 and 17.... I highly, highly recommend it!!!! It is well worth the price!
Rating:
Summary: "Psychological Thrillers"
Review: I was recently reading on amazon.com some very interesting reviews of the 1960's psychological thriller called "Prisoner" starring and produced by the superbly talented Patrick McGoohan... a.k.a. "Danger Man"... (not the comic book guy called Mr. McGoo)... and I also recently purchased the boxed mega-set containing 10 individual albums with every single episode... a must have for prisoner fanatics but I bought it just to add to my collection... Now, I also grew up with that kind of stuff and that was a darn good series for its time... However, the beginning can only be as good as the ending... but unfortunately, the program developed into an utterly childish, silly, overly dramatic neurotic fantasy played out particularly in the final two episodes, by a bunch of mostly jerky British actors whose names I cannot even remember off the top of my head... especially the tall lanky red-haired freak in the gun fight scene... as an exception to... the rule (the rule which says that the 1970's produced the best scripts; cinematography & soundtracks)is the mid-to-late 1990's series called Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood (a Canadian) which is far superior to "Prisoner" in every respect or anything else like it as is "Spy!" (1989) starring the same actor but, unfortunately, is not yet available on DVD or even VHS video to the best of my knowledge__ End C.B.M.
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