I’m about to sit down and try to watch AMC’s Prisoner miniseries straight through. Which might not be the best idea.

I’m a huge fan of the original series. How huge? This huge:

Back in 1972, even though I was just a teenager, I tried to organize a Prisoner convention. I left out fliers on the freebie table at Phil Seuling’s July 4th weekend Comic-Con that year, hoping to pull off a Prisoner con the following year.

Here’s a scan of probably the only surviving copy of that flier, which I only own because one of them was mailed back to me attached to a long letter from a fellow Prisoner fan offering to help.

Why did I think a teenager could pull off running a con, dealing with a hotel, organizing guests, and fulfilling such outrageous promises as listed on the flier? Probably because Adam Malin and Gary Berman, who were even younger than I was, mere tadpoles, had already started running the first of their Creation cons.

I never went ahead with the con, I’m guessing because I realized how overwhelming the project would be. And also because though I desperately wanted to attend such a con, I didn’t really have the personality capable of running it.

In any case, that’s how much I loved the original Prisoner.

Excuse me now while I pop in that DVD. I hope it’s not as bad as everyone else says it is, but if you hear screaming coming from the East Coast … that could be me.