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Monday, November 17, 2025

Sometimes a good reminder is a nice thing

 So today, it's worth going back and remembering something like this:

If you have the time, you'll be glad you did

That is the television series finale for the 1960s British spy thriller The Prisoner.  Created by Patrick McGoohan, my second oldest said it's what you would get if Lewis Carroll wrote 1984.  The finale is one of those things that you have to see to believe.  We've watched some crazy things in our lives, but this has to rank near the top.  

Which is a nice thing to remember, since we all know what day this is:

Yep.  I mused on that here.  It still sticks in my mind as perhaps the single worst television broadcast of my life.  Compared to that, even the finale for The Prisoner comes off as tame and ordinary.  

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