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In pictures: The Prisoner at 50
BBC News ^ | September 4, 2016

Posted on 09/04/2016 9:41:39 PM PDT by AJFavish

It was 50 years ago, on 5 September 1966, that the cameras rolled for the first time in the Italianate village of Portmeirion as filming got under way for the cult 1960s adventure TV show The Prisoner.

The programme starred actor Patrick McGoohan playing the part of Number Six who is held captive in a mysterious village where the residents are known only by a number.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: mcgoohan; numbersix; patrickmcgoohan; portmeirion; prisoner; theprisoner; village
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To: AJFavish

I feel more and more like his character every damn day.

I really feel more like my tagline.


21 posted on 09/04/2016 11:13:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Moonmad27

“I’ve visited the Village/Portmeirion twice, staying there once.”

That’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever read on FR. Did you get to wear those groovy looking outfits?

Love this show. Love Patrick McGoohan.


22 posted on 09/04/2016 11:13:14 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: 1rudeboy

“Man from U.N.C.L.E”

Still love David McCallum too. In NCIS, I love him.


23 posted on 09/04/2016 11:15:21 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: AJFavish

Thx for heads up


24 posted on 09/04/2016 11:20:55 PM PDT by thinden
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To: AJFavish

I’ve owned it on DVD for more than 20 years. Also Secret Agent man and the precursor Danger Man.

Like them all.


25 posted on 09/04/2016 11:22:28 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: AJFavish

I’ve owned it on DVD for more than 20 years. Also Secret Agent man and the precursor Danger Man.

Like them all.


26 posted on 09/04/2016 11:22:28 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I never knew you tripped DJ?

I did I make no bones about it

Life forming no question I did not take it lightly and I sure can’t advise it for the general population and I lecture my kids about it but it was pivotal for me at that age

Best rendition I have seen of it is the Adam Grenier movie Harvard Man where he takes too much and his internal dialogue gobbles him right up

Scary


27 posted on 09/04/2016 11:51:24 PM PDT by wardaddy (free republic is an aging demographic)
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To: AJFavish

Okay series but for fun, class and beauty, try the original “The Avengers”.

If you didn’t fall in love with Diana Riggs, then you were a eunuch.


28 posted on 09/04/2016 11:55:00 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 1rudeboy
Well, there is the issue of that finale....

"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones..."

29 posted on 09/05/2016 12:05:25 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Moonmad27

With truly the worst finale ever!


30 posted on 09/05/2016 12:09:03 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: dfwgator

Opening and Closing credits (some of the best ever in television history) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWTdmwwK-ME

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sy_MXRta8o This video has a comparison of the original vs better credits (starting at 5:35) and some background to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp53tkVtlhA


31 posted on 09/05/2016 12:09:26 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: AJFavish

In depth interview from 1977 with Patrick McGoohan about the genesis of The Prisoner as an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiIUnCMpGbM


32 posted on 09/05/2016 12:13:03 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: wardaddy
For a stable, well-adjusted person with no deeply repressed issues, it could be a positive thing, if done in a nice, comfortable environment, in the company of people you like and trust. Could be. No guarantee of that. People with any sort of issues should never go anywhere near it. Wouldn't recommend that anyone do it, even though I had my day and don't seem the worse for it. Loved The Prisoner, by the way. Great show.
33 posted on 09/05/2016 12:13:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: AJFavish
I do this...

...and say 'Be Seeing You', as a goodbye. Nobody knows what the hell I'm doing.

34 posted on 09/05/2016 12:15:01 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: real saxophonist
For over 10 years, this has been my avatar on another forum:

So I guess one could say I'm a fan of 'The Prisoner'.

35 posted on 09/05/2016 12:19:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: wardaddy

Oh, no. Never took illegal drugs. It’s bad enough having labyrinthitis all the time and feeling dizzy/out-of-focus for every day for 20 years straight. But having watched “The Prisoner”, it seemed more like either some bizarre colorful nightmare (on which I have had countless - if only I could’ve filmed the one I had today !) or a drug-fueled “trip” (or, as in the film, “Point Blank” with Lee Marvin, maybe the entire thing took place at the moment of his death). Although some critics complained he didn’t know quite how to wrap the show up and just went full-on silly in the finale.

It did address a legitimate point that has been a serious problem with some individuals working with state secrets and/or spies, what do you do with people who know too much ? If it was his character of Drake from “Secret Agent”, he would be very dangerous as a disgruntled ex-employee of HMSS and it would be in the state’s interest to either kill him or have him imprisoned or isolated.


36 posted on 09/05/2016 12:19:59 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Diana Riggs. She was attractive to me before I understood what attraction is. :)


37 posted on 09/05/2016 12:21:17 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: real saxophonist

Some will, and it’s a great in-joke for those that “get it.” ;-D


38 posted on 09/05/2016 12:21:46 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: bigbob

That was the secret, there really wasn’t a number one. It was a group, of which the number 2s were a part. At least that is what I got from “Fallout”.


39 posted on 09/05/2016 1:38:58 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: kaehurowing

Good one.

Be seeing you.


40 posted on 09/05/2016 1:54:12 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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