And it’s done. Finally, mercifully, it’s over. I’ve refrained from really judging this to see if they had some grand concept that would make it all pay off in the end. Did it work? Was it worth it? Find out in the observations below.

Widely regarded as the worst episode of the original series, “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling” tells the tale of Six being used by the village out in to the world to solve a problem for them. How do they know he’ll come back? Because they’ve done the old brain-switch-a-roo on him: His body is held hostage back in the Village while he’s running around in someone else’s skin. (Don’t ask.) In the process he meets up with his fiance, and we find out a few things about the spy’s heart.

One of the intriguing things about the new Prisoner series is that, judging by the titles, they seem to actually be remaking specific episodes of the original series. “Arrival” was obviously the pilot or first episode, this one, named “Living In Harmony” is named after the Virtual Reality Western episode, then we’ve got “Hammer in to Anvil”, “Do Not Forsake Me oh My Darling,” “The Schizoid Man,” and “Checkmate.” It’ll be curious to know if these really *are* remakes, or just homage to similar concepts, using the same titles.

The story that led to this TV Movie is long, twisted, and rambling, and at the end there’s precious little payoff to make it all worthwhile, but perhaps there’s a lesson in that. It was originally conceived of as two separate projects back around 1967, when the Dean Martin Matt Helm franchise was going strong and the unexpectedly-well-received Frank Sinatra Tony Rome movies were just getting off the ground. In a nutshell, the great minds behind these pictures thought “Hey, let’s do a crossover picture where Helm meets Rome!