The Prisoner aired on CBS as a summer replacement series in either the summer of 1968 or 1969, at least the NY City station. That was a network owned station, in fact their flagship, so it would probably have been available to all CBS affiliates. I remember watching all 17 episodes that summer with my older sister. That's also how I can date it, as '69 would have been the last summer she spent at the family home before going off on her own.
Unlike the movie “Wild Wild West” which was a PC social revisionist project
Robert Conrad, the original James West from the TV Series, objected to Will Smith taking the part. It wasn't because he was black, but because they had always done their own stunts on the TV show. He considered it what set the show apart. He had the broken bones to prove it. He knew that there was no way Smith would be doing the same kinds of stunts and fights as he had done. He said that there was only one working actor he could picture as James West in the movie: Jackie Chan. He figured that Smith could play the Artemus Gordon part. I think that would have been a much better movie.
I've heard a story from a friend connected with film making that Jackie Chan heard of Conrad's remarks and liked the idea. Since he couldn't do Wild Wild West he decided he'd do his own western / buddy picture, which is where the idea supposedly came from for Shanghai Noon. Interesting idea, true or not.
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Yes - Honor Blackman
Diana Rigg was the first one I saw on “The Avengers”
I believe she drove a Lotus Elan - which I had seen in the Lotus showroom in Manhattan about that time
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CBS broadcast “The Prisoner” Hmmm - I stand corrected - I do make some errors
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I’d say CBS might improve their marketshare and viewers and credibility by broadcasting “The Prisoner” reruns
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Jackie Chan would have been an excellent choice to play Jim West in “The Wild Wild West”
I did see him in “Shanghai Noon” and he was good in that flick