Back in the late sixties there was an innovative and extremely original TV series called The Prisoner starring the excellent english actor Patrick McGoohan.  The show lasted only one season but it has a large following as a cult classic even today.  I recently found it on Netflix (I adore Netflix, but more on that later) and got my DVD containing the first episode.  I remember the show well as it fascinated and, I must admit scared me a bit, while giving me a lot of food for thought.  (There are many interpretations of the story and it's content).  When I originally saw the show, it was in black and white, as color TV's were not wide spread then.  Turns out that the show was actually in gorgeous, often psychadelic color that comes across with a bang on the DVD.  If you saw it, you may remember that The Prisoner, whose name you never find out, he is always known as #6, is a disgruntled undercover agent for some unknown government (most likely Great Britain) who immediately upon resigning from his post, is kidnapped by the other side, and ends up in a place called The Village from which there appears to be no escape.  The Village is a lovely self sufficient seaside Englishlooking  resort town where everyone lives in great comfort and all is taken care of for them.  The only catch is that they can't leave.  should they try to leave they are followed and prevented from doing so by what looks like a big white balloon.  The balloon (I believe he is called Rover) seems to always be there and overtakes the malcontent encircling and sort of enveloping the victim with some sort of terrible painful sensory experience as the victim screams in terror.  (Reminds me a little of J.K. Rowling's dementors).  The other catch is that you are never alone.  That is to say, there is always someone watching your every move.  There are cameras all over the Village.  (Shades of Farenheit 451).  These are monitored by a staff in a huge control room where TV cameras are swinging around scanning the entire perimeter and interior of the Village several times a minute.  The Prisoner is a lot more sophisticated in it's technology than other science fiction of the day such as the original Star Trek.  It is very British, but quite enthralling.  #6 spends his time trying to find out how he got there and how he can escape.  His nemisis is #2 whose mission it is to find out what the ex-agent knows.  He would like to find it out by being nice to the guy, but if he doesn't cooperate he is not averse to some major mind control via drugs, electric shock, brain washing, etc.  In each new episode there is a new #2 as the one in the previous episode would have failed (obviously) as #6 is still fighting.  When they fail the #2 disappears mysteriously in ignominy, perhaps to be fed to the sharks, or maybe Rover.  #6 is way too smart for them and always manages to foil his oppressors but never quite manages to escape in the episode you are watching.  During each episode he runs across varied and sundry other characters from beatiful women to strange characters and interacts with them to get them to help him to escape.  The musical score is very good, quite 60's jazzy, a bit Mission Impossible like.  It adds a lot to the show.