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unusual facts about The Prisoner's Dilemma


Doug Rao

He played DS Stuart Turner in The Bill, and has starred in theatre with The Royal Shakespeare Company, in three world premieres including David Edgar's The Prisoner's Dilemma and Peter Whelan's A Russian in the Woods.


A. B. and C.

The episode stars Patrick McGoohan in the character of Number 6 and features as Number 2 Colin Gordon - the only actor other than Leo McKern who would play Number 2 in more than one episode.

Alejandro Bello Silva

His figure is used in the science fiction show "The Prisoner" and the anthology Alucinaciones.TXT: Nueva antología de cuentos de literatura fantástica chilena (ISBN 9789568648).

Alf Joint

On television he appeared in Doctor Who, Dick Turpin, Return to Treasure Island, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Space: 1999, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (for which he plunged 430ft into the Reichenbach Falls doubling for Eric Porter) and London's Burning.

And the Sky Full of Stars

The role of Knight Two was then offered to The Prisoner star Patrick McGoohan, who likewise wished to accept, but was out of the country at the time of filming, and had to decline as well.

Be Seeing You

The album's title was a catchphrase, used by the band, taken from the cult TV series, The Prisoner, which was enjoying a revival at the time.

Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon

Mitchell and Nixon’s next play, Spy, was inspired by 1960s British spy films and TV series, including The Ipcress File, James Bond, The Saint, The Prisoner and The Avengers, with one scene echoing Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad.

Carlton Television

The ITC archive is financially lucrative since it includes such popular shows as Thunderbirds, The Prisoner, and The Saint, as well as feature films such as The Return of the Pink Panther, On Golden Pond, and Capricorn One.

Eton Boating Song

The Eton Boating Song features in the 1960s television series The Prisoner, in the episodes "The Girl Who Was Death" and "Once Upon a Time".

Folkjokeopus

The album is notable for the lengthy track "McGoohan's Blues", which Harper states was "inspired by actor Patrick McGoohan's depiction of the establishment rebel in his TV series, The Prisoner".

Goldman's dilemma

Goldman's dilemma, or the Goldman dilemma, is a question that was posed to elite athletes by physician, osteopath and publicist Robert Goldman, asking whether they would take a drug that would guarantee them overwhelming success in sport, but cause them to die after five years.

Grok

In the book The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006), author Michael Pollan critiques a farm raising organic chickens with unused doors to pastures, writing, "Rosie the organic free range chicken doesn't really grok the whole free-range concept."

Hans Gissinger

Hans Gissinger is a Swiss commercial, editorial, and fine-art photographer whose work has received wide exposure, thanks in part to Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which features a Gissinger photograph on its cover image.

How Are We to Live?

Chapter Seven, "Tit for Tat", proposes that ethical behavior is in fact beneficial for the individual under real-life conditions, and proposes five practical ethical rules based on a computer simulation of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

HP Kittyhawk microdrive

The story of HP Kittyhawk is described in a Harvard Business School business case "Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk", and is a case study in the book The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen.

Intersections in Real Time

Although it has been claimed that this episode was inspired by the series The Prisoner, and many other sources, J. Michael Straczynski has explicitly denied drawing inspiration from any other source.

Jason Morningstar

Durance is a is a GM-less game for 3-5 players and designed to be played in the spirit of The Prisoner.

Jean Marie Stine

(the third paperback following the British TV series The Prisoner cf. The Prisoner in other media).

Kay Christopher

She then had the lead role of Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947), opposite Ralph Byrd.

Letters of Transit

The episode also contains references to The Prisoner, where Walter exclaims "I am not a number! I am a free man!"

Lillah McCarthy

In 1915 she played with her husband's company at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in Androcles and the Lion, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anatole France's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (translated by Curtis Page), and The Doctor's Dilemma, and at various colleges in outdoor performances of Euripedes' The Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris.

Metamagical Themas

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science/AI; analogies and what makes something similar to something else (specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter 'A' recognisable as such); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

Pool Sharks

He and Ross made another short around the same time, His Lordship's Dilemma.

Prisoner's dilemma

Friend or Foe? is a game show that aired from 2002 to 2005 on the Game Show Network in the USA.

Skylarking

The Channel 4 music program The Tube also produced videos for "The Meeting Place" and "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" filmed in Portmeirion with the band wearing costumes from The Prisoner.

Stranger in a Strange World

This is a reference to a signature line from the television show The Prisoner, "I am not a number — I am a free man!"

The All-Night Show

The All-Night Show generally showed reruns of classic series such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and The Prisoner, and filled the space in between with music videos (including old Scopitones), old movie shorts, and comedic banter.

The Centipede's Dilemma

He gives the example of the violinist Adolf Busch who was asked by fellow-violinist Bronisław Huberman how he played a certain passage of Beethoven's violin concerto.

In 1903, Simplicissimus magazine printed an adaptation of the story by the Austrian author Gustav Meyrink, "The Curse of The Toad" (Der Fluch der Kröte).

The Girl Who Was... Death

The album was entirely written by Mr. Doctor and is based on a television series by Patrick McGoohan called The Prisoner.

At 38:46 into the song, the music ceases and silence continues until the very end, where the album features the band's cover of the main theme from the television series that it is based on, The Prisoner.

The Masque of Mandragora

better known as the setting for the cult series The Prisoner.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Elson Floyd, president of WSU, claimed instead that it was a budgetary issue, and when food safety expert Bill Marler stepped up to cover the claimed shortfall, the program was reinstated, and Pollan was invited to speak on campus.

The Prisoner's Song

The events leading to the song’s immense popularity began with a decision by Victor in 1924 to issue a recording of another song The Wreck of the Old 97, also titled The Wreck of the Southern Old 97, which had been a money-maker for other record companies.

TVOntario

Episodes of The Prisoner were hosted by journalist Warner Troyer whose segments included interviews with the actors and a discussion of various psychological, philosophical or sociological themes regarding the series.

Wilfred Josephs

In particular, Josephs is remembered for composing the music for the television series Enemy at the Door (drama) (1978), The Great War (1964), Talking to a Stranger (1966), I, Claudius (1976) and incidental music for The Prisoner (1967).

Witch Wood

In the The Prisoner episode The Girl Who Was Death, Number Six is lured to a strange town which is apparently called "Witch Wood".


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