Two of these pilots, Open All Hours ( written by Roy Clarke ) and Prisoner and Escort ( written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ) became series.

* April 1 – Prisoner and Escort, the pilot episode of Porridge, airs as part of Seven of One.

One of the episodes, " Prisoner and Escort ", written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, was about a newly-convicted criminal, Norman Stanley Fletcher ( Barker ), being escorted to prison by two warders: the timid Mr. Barrowclough ( Brian Wilde ) and the stern Mr. Mackay ( Fulton Mackay ).

Despite Barker's initial preference for another of the pilots, a sitcom about a Welsh gambling addict, " Prisoner and Escort " was selected.

* Prisoner and Escort: Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal and his escorts — soft-hearted Mr Barrowclough ( Brian Wilde ) and authoritarian Mr Mackay ( Fulton Mackay ) going up to prison.

While the majority did not go beyond the 7 of One series, both Open All Hours and Prisoner and Escort did become much loved sitcoms.

The Agency is responsible for managing the prison population, including Prisoner Escort and Custody Services, maintaining the existing estate and building prison capacity.

McGoohan added Markstein's suggestion to material he had been working on, which later became The Prisoner.

The show became a cult classic, and fans continue to visit Portmeirion, which hosts annual Prisoner fan conventions.

They came across the " hook " for their story when one of the surviving British naval officers gave Pressburger a copy of Captain Patrick Dove's book I Was A Prisoner on the Graf Spee, which became the basis of the human story of the film.

He became Associate Producer of Prisoner late in its run.

The first Danger Man series includes four episodes which use footage filmed in the Welsh resort of Portmeirion, which later became the primary shooting location of The Prisoner.

Second Solution / Prisoner of Society quickly became a national hit, with the double A-side becoming the highest selling Australian single of the 1990s and peaking for several weeks at No. 4 and receiving the 1998 ARIA Award for Highest Selling Single.

Mathew himself became a Prisoner of War, at first held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

When Patrick McGoohan announced his decision to leave Danger Man, Markstein edited the basic ideas that McGoohan had worked on since 1962 that became The Prisoner series, cocreated and starring McGoohan.

Dahlberg was shot down three times, the last on February 14, 1945 near Bitburg, and became a Prisoner of War for the final three months of the war.

Camp Forrest officially became a Prisoner of War Camp on May 12, 1942.

In 1825, also, Webster exhibited ' Rebels shooting a Prisoner ,' at the Suffolk Street Gallery-the first of a series of pictures of schoolboy life for which he subsequently became known-.

Sybil then became a co-founder, and then later served as the national coordinator of the National League of Families, a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of American Vietnam-era Missing in Action and Prisoner of War Families.

However, Bobbitt became best known for her portrayal of lesbian character Judy Bryant in the popular Australian television series, Prisoner.

The Algebra series greatly surpassed The Prisoner in sales and became Edu-Ware's greatest source of revenue.

After winning the ' Unknown Political Prisoner ' competition in 1953 he became one of the best known sculptors during the 1950s and 1960s, and also taught at the Slade School of Art.

This became the series in which the Prisoner sketch was first shown.

" Tracks of My Tears " became a Pop Top 40 hit for the third time when the version recorded by Linda Ronstadt for her Platinum-certified 1975 album release Prisoner in Disguise album was issued as that album's second single: the track was not one of Ronstadt's biggest hits peaking at # 25 (" Tracks of My Tears " reached # 11 on the C & W chart in tandem with its B-side: the Emmylou Harris duet: " The Sweetest Gift ").

Coral Kelly ( who later on became Coral Drouyn, a storyline editor for Prisoner ) played Consuela McPhee, the newly hired ' full figured ' receptionist at the Health Studio, who was despised by the vengeful Iris ;

He became a well-known face on television thanks to his dramatic roles in Bellbird, The Box, Prisoner ( playing the part of " crooked " screw, Len Murphy ) and The Flying Doctors.

He ejected successfully and became a Prisoner of War.

Swanwick's film career began in 1951 with bit parts in films such as The African Queen, and he became a recognisable face on British TV during the mid-1960s when he guest starred in a number of popular shows, including The Avengers and Danger Man where he first worked with later Prisoner star and co-creator, Patrick McGoohan.

Many of the characters in Dangerous Women were based on the original characters of Prisoner: The characters of Karen Travers and Lynne Warner from the latter became Maria Trent and Holly Warner in Dangerous Women and both of their opening storylines were based on those originally shown in Prisoner.

It was eventually screened around the country in differing slots usually around 11pm, under the title Prisoner: Cell Block H. Its airing in the UK was staggered, so different regions of the country saw it at a different pace.

Following a promotional campaign featuring a new version of the theme song by Ella Hooper, and a cast reunion, Prisoner returned to Australian screens on 7 March 2011, airing weeknights on 111 Hits in a 18: 30 time slot against Neighbours ( with a repeat at 02: 00 and again, the following afternoon at 13: 00 .).

In November 2009 Spence joined former cast members Gerard Maguire and Val Lehman in the UK for a celebration with fans of the 30th anniversary of Prisoner first airing in Australia.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968.

However, in a 1988 article from British Telefantasy magazine Time Screen, McGoohan indicated that he had planned to pitch The Prisoner prior to speaking to Grade.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

However, other sources indicate that several of the crew members who continued on from Danger Man to work on The Prisoner considered it to be a continuation, and that McGoohan was continuing to play the character of John Drake.

It reviewed scenes from Danger Man and The Prisoner, incorporated interviews with cast members ( including McGoohan ) and fans, and addressed the political environment giving rise to the series and McGoohan's heavy workload.

* The Prisoner Video Companion, 1990: a 48-minute American production with clips, including a few from Danger Man, and voice-over narration discussing origins, interpretations, meaning, symbolism, etc., in a format modelled on the 1988 Warner book, The Official Prisoner Companion by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali.

Skaarj troops board the downed Vortex Rikers and kill the remaining survivors, save for Prisoner 849, who manages to find a weapon and escape from the ship.

* Prisoner Ball: Also played with volleyball court and a volleyball, prisoner ball is a variation of Newcomb ball where players are " taken prisoner " or released from " prison " instead of scoring points.

* The 20 highest-grossing films of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Spider-Man 3, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Finding Nemo, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Shrek the Third.

According to a Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office ( DPMO ) white paper, 1, 394 names were also transmitted during " Operation Glory " from the Chinese and North Koreans, of which 858 proved to be correct.

* Justice Holmes and the ' Splendid Prisoner ' Anthony Lewis on Debs from The New York Review of Books

( Draco Malfoy breaks this rule in Prisoner of Azkaban by grabbing Harry's broomtail to stop him from seizing the Snitch.

* Blagging: No player may seize any part of an opponent's broom to slow or hinder the player ( Draco Malfoy commits this foul in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, thus preventing Harry from seizing the Snitch ).

* Number Two ( The Prisoner ), a character from the British television series The Prisoner

Because of its Prisoner connection, Portmeirion has been used as the filming location for a number of homages to the series, ranging from comedy skits to an episode of the BBC documentary series The Celts which recreated scenes from The Prisoner.

The Channel 4 music program The Tube also produced videos for XTC's songs " The Meeting Place " and " The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul " filmed in Portmeirion with the band wearing costumes from The Prisoner.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

* Diana Gabaldon, in her most recent book, The Scottish Prisoner ( A Lord John Novel ), references some lines from a poetic version of the Wild Hunt in relation to a Jacobite plot developing in Ireland.