Patrick McGoohan and ‘The Prisoner,’ Out in a 40th-Anniversary DVD Edition - NYTimes.com

DVD - Patrick McGoohan and ‘The Prisoner,’ Out in a 40th-Anniversary DVD Edition - NYTimes.com: "AS we’ve been reminded lately with a stream of 40th-anniversary remembrances, 1968 was an unusually tumultuous year, with the Columbia University riots, the student uprising in Paris and the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, not to mention the fiasco of the Democratic National Convention. American television had its own upheaval that year. On June 1 audiences accustomed to the corny vaudeville of “The Jackie Gleason Show” on CBS stumbled upon an utterly baffling summer replacement: “The Prisoner,” recently released on DVD in a 10-disc anniversary set."