It starred Patrick McGoohan of Danger Man / Secret Agent and The Prisoner fame in the title role and was directed by James Neilson.

In 2000, on the 40th anniversary of the U-2 Incident, his family was presented his posthumously awarded Prisoner of War Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and National Defense Service Medal.

It was a charity match in aid of the Prisoner of War Fund between Welsh and American teams of the U. S. Beaufort & U. S. Jupiter.

– Prisoner: I can't just tell, please you, my lord ; I only know he was in black.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

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.

Grade was unhappy with the decision, but when McGoohan insisted upon quitting, Grade asked if McGoohan had any other possible projects ; McGoohan later pitched The Prisoner.

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.

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

It was released to DVD in the early 2000s as a bonus feature with A & E's release of The Prisoner series.

The Prisoner: The Complete Series was released on Blu-ray Disc in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2009, following in North America on 27 October.

Rowling also disclosed that after the publication of Prisoner of Azkaban, there was one female fan who guessed Snape loved Lily Potter, making Rowling wonder how she had given herself away.

Bao Pu was also an editor for Zhao's autobiography, Prisoner of the State.

On 1 August, she herself was taken out of the Tower and entered into the Conciergerie as Prisoner No. 280.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.

Walter was drafted into the armed forces in 1942, however, the end of the war found 24 year old Fritz in a Prisoner of War camp in Máramarossziget in which he played with Hungarian and Slovakian guards.

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.

In 2010 Alan Caswell from Australia initiated a lawsuit when it was discovered that " Christmas in Dixie " had actually used the melody of his copyrighted music from the television show Prisoner.

* Woo's film was partially inspired by the 1967 Lung Kong film 英雄本色 ( pinyin Yīngxióng běnsè ) which has the same Chinese name but a different English name: Story of a Discharged Prisoner, which is # 39 on the Hong Kong Film Awards list of the Top 100 Chinese Films.

Sergei Bodrov Jr. (; December 27, 1971 – September 20, 2002 ) was a Russian actor who had lead roles in the movies Brother, Prisoner of the Mountains, The Stringer and Brother 2.

Benedict also made a cameo appearance in the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team as Pensacola Prisoner Milt.

MPI also issued The Best of The Prisoner, a video of series excerpts.

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.

It also included " Prisoner of Hope ", which is not found on any other Jars album.

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.

Wallace's work onstage includes An Almost Perfect Person in Los Angeles, which she also produced, a tour of the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and productions of Same Time Next Year, Twigs, It Had to Be You, Supporting Cast, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Plaza Suite, Gypsy, Promises, Promises, Born Yesterday, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Steel Magnolias and Last of the Red Hot Lovers – in which she played all three roles at various times.

It also hosted the largest camouflage school in the United States, as well as a 250 person Prisoner of War Camp.

Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.

* Like Gone with the Wind, The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) is also owned by Turner.

Unlike the case of Gone with the Wind, which Selznick sold to MGM in 1944, It is assumed that The Prisoner of Zenda was bought by MGM themselves because they planned to produce a would-be 1952 remake of the film and wished to better the original film ( a similar situation occurred when MGM filmed a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, having also bought the 1931 version from Paramount ).

* A penny-farthing was the logo of The Village in the cult 1960s television series The Prisoner, and was also featured in the show's closing titles.

It has also been nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America Award, winning two for the episodes " Godfellas " and " The Prisoner of Benda ", been nominated for a Nebula Award and has received Environmental Media Awards for episodes " The Problem with Popplers " and " The Futurama Holiday Spectacular ".

Examples of British anti-establishment satire include much of the humour of Peter Cook and Ben Elton ; novels such as Rumpole of the Bailey ; magazines such as Private Eye ; and television programmes like Spitting Image, Rumpole of the Bailey, That Was The Week That Was, and The Prisoner ( see also the satire boom of the 1960s ).

McKean was also a concept artist on the TV mini-series Neverwhere ( 1996 ), which was created and co-written by Neil Gaiman, and the feature films Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004 ) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( 2005 ).

Smith was also script editor of Prisoner for most of its eight-year run.

A further idea, Inside Out, set in an open prison and featuring certain Prisoner characters a decade or so on, also came to nothing.

Prisoner: Cell Block H – Behind the Scenes was written by Terry Bourke and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers, who also released similar books about Neighbours and Home & Away.

Several Prisoner actors have also trod British stages appearing in both drama and pantomime, such as Val Lehman ( Wizard of Oz / Beatrix Potter and Misery ), Peta Toppano, Fiona Spence, Maggie Dence ( Bev Baker ), Debra Lawrance ( Daphne Graham ), Linda Hartley ( Roach Waters ), Ian Smith ( Ted Douglas ) and Maggie Millar ( Marie Winter ).

Prisoner or The Prisoner may also refer to:

Grundy's Prisoner began screening in the United States in 1979 and achieved high ratings in many regions there, however only the first three years of the series would be screened in that country.

For instance Channel had to miss 172 episodes of The Young Doctors, the first nine episodes of Prisoner Cell Block H which had been screened on TVS in 1985, and it had to re-show 83 episodes of Sons and Daughters as TVS was behind TSW.

* After the Prisoner cliffhanger of 1981, a further TV special was screened: Prisoner in Concert.

Prisoner was the first Australian soap opera screened late night in the UK.

In 1985 she played the glamorous villain Eve Wilder in the cult soap opera Prisoner and her character was spectacularly lynched during the infamous episode 600 riot, screened in 1986.