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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.

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

“For a stable, well-adjusted person with no deeply repressed issues, it could be a positive thing, if done...”

No. Never.

That’s the 60’s hippie lie, pushed by Tim Leary and others.

Simply not true and we see what has happened and where we are now.


41 posted on 09/05/2016 1:54:13 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: AJFavish

Anyone remember Stan Tenen and the Prisoner Rap Session?

http://youtu.be/if22tgMkoI0


42 posted on 09/05/2016 1:54:13 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: FreedomStar3028
The final episode literally made no sense. Actually, the entire show!

Bingo! And that bubble thing always got him in the end. You knew that was going to happen. But yet you watched every week.

43 posted on 09/05/2016 3:17:13 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: faithhopecharity; bigbob
According to co-creator George Markstein, "Number One is the villain in charge."

In a 1970s television interview with British television presenter Mike Smith, Patrick McGoohan stated: "The reason that it was confusing, and that [the viewers] were disappointed, I think, was that they expected the ending to be similar to a 'Bond' thing, with this mystery man, the head man or whatever they call him in Bond; and of course it wasn't about that at all. It was about the most evil human 'being', human 'essence'; and that is ourselves, because within each of us, that is the most dangerous thing on Earth, is what is within us. And so therefore that's what I made No. 1: One's 'self', an image of himself that he was trying to beat." McGoohan planted clues to this throughout the series, including the Prisoner's residence in London bearing the numeral "1" on the door, and that the phrasing of No. 2's response to the Prisoner's question, "Who is No. 1?" can be taken either as a non-response – "You are No. 6" – or as an answer – "You are, No. 6."

44 posted on 09/05/2016 4:25:49 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: AJFavish

From the early 80s, a British neo-mod homage:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUCCl9YaBQ


45 posted on 09/05/2016 4:56:33 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: AJFavish
Hillary Clintomn is reminiscent of the only female #2, Mary Morris, right down to the laugh and fashion sense.


46 posted on 09/05/2016 5:01:54 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: real saxophonist
...and say 'Be Seeing You', as a goodbye. Nobody knows what the hell I'm doing.

And you!
47 posted on 09/05/2016 5:11:31 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: AJFavish

Agree one of the best series ever. Way ahead of it’s time. I’ve had the full set of seasons on dvd for a long time. Time to watch them again.


48 posted on 09/05/2016 5:11:53 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Missing you /johnny (JRandomFreeper).)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
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.

A crucial part of the strangeness was it was purposefully unclear who was running the joint: "Us? (NATO)", "THEM?" (Soviets or their client-states) or a powerful and interested third party? (Soros, Rockefeller, Bilderberger types)
49 posted on 09/05/2016 5:15:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Vaquero
And that bubble thing always got him in the end. You knew that was going to happen. But yet you watched every week.

Sometimes he was brought back with no bubble. "Chimes of Big Ben" and "Many Happy Returns" comes to mind. Also, many of the later episodes have #6 striking back at the powers in the village ("Checkmate") The one where #6 ran for being #2 had a great "bubble" appearance near the end.
50 posted on 09/05/2016 5:19:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Someone in Ohio has KAR12OC as their license plate

If he has it on a Lotus Super Seven, he's earned it. Great car for the show.
51 posted on 09/05/2016 5:20:10 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

The next to last episode featured a “duel” between Number Two(Leo McKern) and Number Six. Something of a final show down. Number Six won. The Village then realized that Number Six would never tell them what they wanted to know. In the final episode Number Six is “congratulated” on his integrity and offered the job of Number One or the freedom to return home. Number Six angrily rejects the offer to be Number One and denounces the Village system. He returns home.


52 posted on 09/05/2016 5:22:03 AM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

The next to last episode featured a “duel” between Number Two(Leo McKern) and Number Six. Something of a final show down. Number Six won. The Village then realized that Number Six would never tell them what they wanted to know. In the final episode Number Six is “congratulated” on his integrity and offered the job of Number One or the freedom to return home. Number Six angrily rejects the offer to be Number One and denounces the Village system. He returns home.


53 posted on 09/05/2016 5:22:03 AM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: dfwgator

I have the CD soundtracks that get some play every so often.


54 posted on 09/05/2016 5:36:56 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: ladyjane

The Chimes Of Big Ben.


55 posted on 09/05/2016 5:37:30 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Beatles music and Tommy guns.


56 posted on 09/05/2016 5:39:05 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The latter half of the 1960’s was a global acid trip. So in that respect the show was of its time. McGoohan the actor was like a volcano about to erupt. From Secret Agent, through The Prisoner, to King Edward Longshanks in Brave Heart, one of the best of his generation.


57 posted on 09/05/2016 5:54:10 AM PDT by katana
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To: Ingtar
Number One, as she appeared during the 1960's.


58 posted on 09/05/2016 5:59:32 AM PDT by katana
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To: katana

I could live with her as No.1.


59 posted on 09/05/2016 6:05:37 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: AJFavish

I LOVED that show!


60 posted on 09/05/2016 7:18:24 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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