Lol. I really enjoyed The Avengers, but The Prisoner is far superior in artistry, originality, and opening up the world of tv to the greatness of mixing genres. The Avengers never does this but it was mighty good.

MacGoohan got very lucky having Grade as a producer, allowing him to fulfill his great imaginative genius. It was MacGoohan himself who invented that martial arts exercise on the trampolines, and some of the plotlines in The Prisoner prefigure the amazing ventures into doing genre-bending things with tv shows, including the way Dennis Potter would use two or three genres in some of his shows, to marvelous effect. Potter was able to take tv to heights that possibly might never be achieved again... but you never know.

Sue