{"id":17661,"date":"2009-11-17T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17661"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:29:32","slug":"the-prisoner-con-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/17\/the-prisoner-con-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner<\/i> Con That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m about to sit down and try to watch AMC’s Prisoner<\/i> miniseries straight through. Which might not be the best idea.<\/p>\n

I’m a huge<\/i> fan of the original series. How huge? This huge:<\/p>\n

Back in 1972, even though I was just a teenager, I tried to organize a Prisoner<\/i> 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<\/i> con the following year.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> fan offering to help.<\/p>\n

\"PrisonerCon\"<\/a>
\nWhy 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. <\/p>\n

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<\/i> such a con, I didn’t really have the personality capable of running it.<\/p>\n

In any case, that’s<\/i> how much I loved the original Prisoner<\/i>. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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