The Simpsons and The Prisoner

Feb 5, 2002, 12:31 AM ET5 posts by 5 posters
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ChiaCow9

Anyone here watch "The Prisoner"? Planning on buying the DVD 17-Episode Set this summer. Though I haven't seen the episodes yet, I have seen the premiere so I'm pretty sure that The Simpsons have spoofed/parodied/comically reenacted/derived from the show at least twice. Most famously, the bubble (before I was introduced to the show, I've always wondered "How did the writers come up with that?") featured in Marge's getaway scene in "The Joy of Sect" (I am correct, right?) and, of course, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" which actually had Patrick Macgoohan guest voice as the character he played in The Prisoner, Prisoner #6. Are there any other references to the show? I vaguely remember a second bubble attack, but I think I might have taken that from the same episode. Is there a story behind this "Prisoner" references? Its obvious someone behind the show likes it...

If not, comments, viewers, fans of the show, etc. Can't wait until April (the month when I'll actually have enough money to purchase it).

Ted S.ChiaCow9

Somebody claiming to be [email] (ChiaCow9) wrote in news:[email]:

Have you thought about posting your questions to alt.tv.prisoner? I happen to like the show, although I haven't seen episodes in years.

What I like best about the bubble scene in "Joy of Sect" is that it catches Hans Moleman. :-)

Ted S.: change .spam to .net to reply by e-mail Bart Simpson, interviewing his father: What religion are you? Homer: You know, the one with all the well-meaning rules that don't work out in real life. Uh, Christianity.
Aaron HirshbergChiaCow9

[email] (ChiaCow9) wrote in message news:...

Don't be unmutual!

I saw the Prisoner originally back in the late 1960s. Then I saw it again when I was in graduate school at MIT in the early 1980s. It was shown on MIT's cable TV system. Then the CBS affiliate in Boston showed it in 1988, and the PBS station in New Hampshire showed it a few years after that. It has been on the Sci-Fi Channel, also. In fact, the Sci-Fi Channel showed a Prisoner Marathon during Labor Day Weekend a few years back.

One of my roomates at MIT was from France. He told me that when the Prisoner was originally shown there, the entire country would stop what it was doing to watch the show.

Be seeing you!

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Brett BuckChiaCow9

in article [email], ChiaCow9 at [email] wrote on 2/4/02 9:31 PM:

Questions are a burden to others, Answers a prison for oneself.

Brett

FuriousXGeorgeChiaCow9

My buddy has that, it kicks ass, don't wait till summer ;)

Furious George aka Queso