{"id":2487,"date":"2012-10-31T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2012-11-08T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:30:50","slug":"the-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/10\/31\/the-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our &#8216;Freedom&#8217; theme this month we look at cult British TV series <I>The Prisoner<\/I> (1967-68).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2490\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/prisoner_review_final_medium_res-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2487]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/prisoner_review_final_medium_res-1.jpg?resize=474%2C741\" alt=\"\" title=\"Comic Strip Review by Matt Badham and Baz Renshaw\" width=\"474\" height=\"741\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/prisoner_review_final_medium_res-1.jpg?resize=594%2C928 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/prisoner_review_final_medium_res-1.jpg?resize=300%2C469 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/prisoner_review_final_medium_res-1.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Strip Review by Matt Badham and Baz Renshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">For more information on Matt Badham, go to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/matthew-badham\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/A>. For Baz Renshaw, go to <A HREF=\" http:\/\/enginecomics.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Engine Comics<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our &#8216;Freedom&#8217; theme this month we look at cult British TV series <i>The Prisoner<\/i> (1967-68).<br \/>\n<b><i>Comic Strip Review by Matt Badham and Baz Renshaw<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[507,120,508,509,1429],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-british-tv","tag-comics","tag-cult-series","tag-patrick-mcgoohan","tag-tv-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4096,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2014\/03\/04\/dr-strangelove\/","url_meta":{"origin":2487,"position":0},"title":"Dr Strangelove","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"March 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of out exploration of convoluted film titles, Barry Renshaw looks at Kubrick's classic. 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