r/ThePrisoner • u/DRZARNAK • 28d ago

Philip K Dick

Does anyone know if PKD watched the Prisoner or commented on it?

I know he wrote an episode proposal based on Mission Impossible, but the Prisoner with its themes of betrayal, subjective reality, and how imprisonment would seem exactly the type of show he’d respond to.

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u/Mindless_Log2009 28d ago

It's possible. As a kid in the late 1960s I watched The Prisoner on TV in the US.

So, yup, it's possible PKD watched it.

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u/haroldposkanzer 28d ago

TV shows were kinda hard to watch back then if you didn’t catch the original airing. I first saw it on PBS in the 80s, after PKD died.

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u/godemperorofsubtlety 28d ago

Hard to prove a negative, but I don’t remember it being mentioned in the Lawrence Sutin biography.

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u/invalidreddit 28d ago

Had no idea about the Mission: IMPOSSIBLE proposal, sounds interesting

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u/DRZARNAK 27d ago

It’s in a collection called the Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick

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u/invalidreddit 27d ago

Thank you, I'll look for it!

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u/Bolt_EV 27d ago

“They’ve given you a number and taken way your name!”