What is The Prisoner?
“The Prisoner” is the name of a British television series from the 1960’s which related the plight of a kidnapped British Secret Service agent forced to live in a contrived society. The series dealt with various aspects of society and profiled in particular one man’s will and the inability of a conformist society to break it. References to this series pop up in quite a few Chameleons/Mark Burgess songs. This reflects the amount of influence this show had on Mark, and probably others in the band (there are some promo photos of the Chameleons taken at Portmeirion where the series was shot). Mark has shown himself to be quite a fan of the program, hoping that when production starts on the movie version to be included as an extra. Sound bites from the program were used in the Sun and the Moon’s version of ‘Elected’ (the speech is from ‘Fall Out’ and other snippets from ‘Free for All’ are included) as well as their song, ‘Peace in Our Time.
“The Prisoner” is the name of a British television series from the 1960’s which related the plight of a kidnapped British Secret Service agent forced to live in a contrived society. The series dealt with various aspects of society and profiled in particular one man’s will and the inability of a conformist society to break it. References to this series pop up in quite a few Chameleons/Mark Burgess songs. This reflects the amount of influence this show had on Mark, and probably others in the band (there are some promo photos of the Chameleons taken at Portmeirion where the series was shot). Mark has shown himself to be quite a fan of the program, hoping that when production starts on the movie version to be included as an extra. Sound bites from the program were used in the Sun and the Moon’s version of ‘Elected’ (the speech is from ‘Fall Out’ and other snippets from ‘Free for All’ are included) as well as their song, ‘Peace in Our Time.’ The Chameleons recorded a song called ‘Free for A
