The BBC celebrated the 50th anniversary of its classic anti-authoritarian TV series, The Prisoner. “As George Orwell’s ‘1984’ did in literature, ‘The Prisoner’ series brought to British TV screens and set in the minds of a generation the terror that rests with an all seeing, all-powerful state,” said Ben Harris-Quinney, president of the Bow Group, the UK’s oldest conservative think-tank, “It certainly raised in the minds of a great many of the viewing public the dangers of unquestioned state power and the eternal importance of liberty and freedom to the human spirit.” Many of the episodes are available on youtube and Amazon also has them on instant download.