The Prisoner "Fall Out”

It was the killer balloon that stuck with me. Watching cult '60s TV classic The Prisoner at six years old (via an early '80s Sunday morning rerun), it was hard not to be terrified by the show’s amorphous, inexplicable entity called “Rover”. However, there were other, stranger images that also lingered, and led to me becoming obsessed with the series in my teens – especially the final episode.

- Saxon Bullock

All I could initially remember of “Fall Out” was lots of underground action, a guy in a judge's wig yelling, and Rumpole Of The Bailey star Leo McKern monologuing at a rocket.

Later on, I discovered its reputation as “the really weird one”, and that creator/lead actor Patrick McGoohan, who'd wielded his then-superstar status for almost complete creative control, wrote the episode in a frenzied rush across 36 hours in order to fill out the show’s original 17-episode order.