Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Between Ourselves joins hundreds of fans of the cult science-fiction TV series The Prisoner, on their annual pilgrimage to Portmeirion in North Wales, where the show was filmed. They are here for the 16th annual Prisoner Convention, where they can dress up, recreate iconic moments from the 60s TV show - such as the human chess game, the election parade and fleeing from the mysterious Rover - and share theories about its true meaning.

Why does this surreal programme still appeal to them, a quarter of a century after it was first broadcast?


Clip taken from Between Ourselves: Prisoners of Enthusiasm, originally broadcast on BBC One, 19 November, 1993.





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