Fortieth Anniversary DVD Boxset For The Prisoner

If you haven't yet purchased The Prisoner on DVD, this might convince you; if you have, I'm sorry, but you're going to want to do so again. A new 40th anniversary edition of the series looks like one of the best DVD boxsets of the year, if not of all time.

There's a total of seven commentaries, featuring between them Bernie Williams, Tony Sloman, Vincent Tillsley, Pat Jackson, Peter Graham Scott, John S. Smith, Roger Parkes, Noreen Ackland and Eric Mival - but sadly no Patrick McGoohan; a feature length and 'definitive' documentary on the show called Don't Knock Yourself Out; original edits of two key episodes, Arrival and The Chimes of Big Ben; an entire book on the production by Andrew Pixley; original mono and 5.1 upmixes... and loads and loads of images, papers, trailers and b-roll from the time of production.

Incredible. If neither John Ford nor Ridley Scott had been born, this would have been film ick's most keenly desired DVD set of 2007.

Seven discs of beautifully restored paranoid psychedelia all topped off with the most beautiful logotype in film and TV history. Yummy.