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.

Prisoner was also screened in late-night timeslots in the UK beginning in the late 1980s, achieving enduring cult success there.

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.

For example, Dave Rogers, in the book The Prisoner and Danger Man, said that Markstein claimed to have created the concept first and McGoohan later attempted to take credit for it, though Rogers himself doubted that McGoohan would have wanted or needed to do that.

* Legends, a two-part episode of Justice League, features homages to " It's a Good Life " and The Prisoner, in which the survivors of an alternate universe's nuclear war are forced to act out normal lives in a simulated world created by psychic mutant Ray Thompson.

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 ).

The episode features American-born actor Patrick McGoohan as Number Six, the central character in The Prisoner, which McGoohan created.

The balloon is a reference to Rover, a floating white ball in The Prisoner that was created to keep inhabitants in the " Village ", which was also featured in the season 9 episode The Joy of Sect.

* One of the four fictional characters in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban who created the Marauder's Map

After writing several games for Edu-Ware as a freelancer, he joined Edu-Ware after completing his own studies at California State University, Northridge in 1980, and as his first assignment created the ground-breaking adventure game The Prisoner, the product for which Edu-Ware is best remembered today.

Instead, Tak Sakaguchi, Prisoner KSC2-303, took the mantle of action director and created sequences that fill out the action in the new version of the film.

It will generally be phrased as " Prisoner at the Bar, you have been found Guilty by a jury of your peers of the offense of XYZ.

* In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Abergavenny is mentioned by Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the Knight Bus when the bus takes a detour there to drop off a passenger.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

Several video games are based on or influenced heavily by Lovecraft such as Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Cthulhu Saves the World, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, Splatterhouse, Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Penumbra, and Quake.

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 ".

* Six into One: The Prisoner File, 1984, a 45-minute docudrama presented by Channel 4 after the series rerun.

* 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.

Numerous editions of The Prisoner were, meanwhile, released in the UK / Region 2 by companies such as Carlton.

The episodes have been restored by Network DVD to create new high-definition masters, of which standard-definition versions were used for The Prisoner: 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD boxset released in 2007.

* A 2006 survey of leading rock and film stars by Uncut magazine ranking films, books, music or TV shows that changed the world, placed The Prisoner at # 10, the highest for a TV show.

* " Why ' The Prisoner ' Endures " by John Fund, Wall Street Journal, 2009-01-20

The expansion, Return to Na Pali, picks up not long after Unreals ending ; Prisoner 849 is found by a human warship, the UMS Bodega Bay.

The large ship is disabled by the ensuing blast, and Prisoner 849 escapes into space.

* Throughout the plot of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, two unexplained events that greatly affect the plot are later seen to be caused by the protagonists using a time-turner, a small hourglass allowing its user to travel back in time.

In 1928 he appeared in the play Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner, by R. N.

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

* Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devil's Island – Music Theatre piece – Music and Lyrics by Bryan Kesselman, St Giles Cripplegate, London, November 1998 ; Part of the 9th London international Jewish Music Festival.

* Prisoner of Honor, directed by Ken Russell, historical advisor George Whyte, focuses on the efforts of Colonel Picquart to have the sentence of Alfred Dreyfus overturned.