...and say 'Be Seeing You', as a goodbye. Nobody knows what the hell I'm doing.
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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I feel more and more like his character every damn day.
I really feel more like my tagline.
“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.
“Man from U.N.C.L.E”
Still love David McCallum too. In NCIS, I love him.
Thx for heads up
I’ve owned it on DVD for more than 20 years. Also Secret Agent man and the precursor Danger Man.
Like them all.
I’ve owned it on DVD for more than 20 years. Also Secret Agent man and the precursor Danger Man.
Like them all.
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
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.
"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones..."
With truly the worst finale ever!
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
In depth interview from 1977 with Patrick McGoohan about the genesis of The Prisoner as an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiIUnCMpGbM
...and say 'Be Seeing You', as a goodbye. Nobody knows what the hell I'm doing.
So I guess one could say I'm a fan of 'The Prisoner'.
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.
Diana Riggs. She was attractive to me before I understood what attraction is. :)
Some will, and it’s a great in-joke for those that “get it.” ;-D
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”.
Good one.
Be seeing you.
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