Appreciation For The Prisoner

Newsletters – Magazines and Fanzines of Yesteryear

   Since the Fall Out of 1967 there have been those in need of Information, Information, Information about the Prisoner and 'by hook or by crook' they got it, because there were people out there prepared to provide such wanted information, and did it in a series of Newsletters, Magazines, Fanzines and Journals.

    Of course today any such needed information can easily be trawled off the Internet at the click of a mouse! Yet in the dark ages long before the age of the Internet such newsletter and magazines were the only way of gleaning such information in certain areas of the world;

Alert {1977-1981} Six of One

File #6 {1978} 1 Issue - San Francisco

The Green Dome {1980} 6 Issues - New York

The tally Ho {1979-1980} Approx 5 issues - Washington DC

Rover {1979 -1982} 18 Issues - Los Angeles

The Prisoner Newsletter {1979-1980} Approx 6 Issues - Midland MI

Prisoner Magazine {1983-1984} 3 issues - Six of One

Number 6 {1984-1193} 37 Issues - Six of One

In The Village {1993-2001} 32 Issues - Six of One

Le Rodeur {1987-    } approx 30 Issues - France

The Penny Farthing - Liverpool Group

Free For All - Shrewsbury Group, later Six of One

The Globe {1991-1993} 11 Issues - Six of one

Chimes {1989-1090} London and South East Local Group

Buckingham Place

{London and South east Local Group}

The Village Observer {1985-1988}- Portmeirion Location Reports

The Tally Ho {1983-1984}

Spokes {1979-1981}

Camera Obscura {1990-1995} 20 Issues - Birmingham Local Group

Well-Come {1985-1986}

Rotten Cabbages {Ontario - Canada}

Rover - Glasgow Local Group

Orbit 48 - Preston Local Group

All You Need Is Love - {1979}

The Manchester Guardian {1989-1092} 6 Issues - Manchester Local Group

Once Upon A Time {1978-    } South East Group, later stemming from America.

The Tally Ho {2006-    }

    Not only were such newsletters, magazines and Journals important for the information, much craved by Prisoner fans, which they contained, but also that one might find like minded people and gain contact through them in the exchange of ideas and theories. And of course they were the ideal place to get ones letters, articles and even Prisoner short story fiction published and read by other fans of the Prisoner.

    However almost all of the above listed newsletters and magazines, apologies if I have missed out any which you may have information of, have not endured the passage of time, lasting perhaps only a year or so, some not even that. Whilst other Magazines have endured for longer, going on to 32 and 37 issues.

    So what price both The Tally Ho and Jolly Roger newsletters which I produce, hard copies of course? Well only time will tell, because here they are being slowly developed on-line in MySpace {2006} never thought that one would happen, never saw it coming in fact!

    However as long as there are readers for The Tally Ho and Jolly Roger I shall keep producing them for the readership, and continue to give them what they want. Trawling the Internet is one thing and can reach a far wider readership. Yet somehow I personally feel that there isn't quite anything like getting your hands on printed paper, to hold and be able to turn over the pages of a hard copy newsletter over a cup of tea or coffee, that is the kind of pleasure and satisfaction which trawling the Internet cannot match. Yes the Internet has hundreds and hundreds of pages of information on the subject of the Prisoner, most of it excellent, some mediocre, other rubbish, but the only way to get your hands on them is to print them off.

   {Sadly The Jolly Roger did eventually sink without trace, it was a question of costs.}

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