Somehow or other I managed to see at least some episodes of The Prisoner when it aired as a summer replacement in the US in (IIRC) 1969. I was about 5. (Rover gave me nightmares.) Stuck in my head for years. It was 15 years before I got to see any full episodes. It really does hold up.
Criterion ChannelAlex Cox on THE PRISONER and the Genius of Patrick McGoohan 📺 Watch all 17 episodes of the landmark 1960s television series! This is the first in Criterion’s new YouTube series of 5 introductions to THE PRISONER by Cox, writer, director and author of I AM (NOT) A NUMBER: DECODING THE PRISONER (2018)