The Prisoner

The Prisoner was a British television series in the late 60s that has achieved a kind of cult status. It was filmed in an interesting location, Portmeirion, Wales, a small village entirely designed by the same architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. The setup is, the main character was in British Intelligence and angrily resigned, then woke up in a remote village where everyone is an agent, and he can't leave. The producer of the series remarked that such locations actually exist, I had an idea for a novel called The Fortunate Isles about people who have been retired in this manner from public life, faked deaths or whatever.