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Classic TV: The Prisoner
YouTube ^ | 1966

Posted on 09/05/2016 12:37:30 AM PDT by Fai Mao

I think that this has the complete 5 year run, including the two years that the series was not picked up by CBS but only on the BBC. Stars Patrick McGoohan

The Prisoner, Episode 1


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KEYWORDS: numbersix; oldtv; patrickmcgoohan; theprisoner

1 posted on 09/05/2016 12:37:31 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fai Mao

It only ran one year. Anywhere.


2 posted on 09/05/2016 12:42:03 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (It appears that we no longer wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin...)
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To: Fai Mao
Many thanks...LOVE the show!

Now I can binge watch it all over again. :-)

3 posted on 09/05/2016 12:56:49 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Fai Mao

There were 17 episodes and I think the lore is that only 12 were considered “essential”.


4 posted on 09/05/2016 1:06:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Fai Mao

Not a lot of people know that Patrick Mcgoohan mortgaged everything to get this show made.


5 posted on 09/05/2016 3:07:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Fai Mao

The ball freaked me out when I was a kid.

6 posted on 09/05/2016 3:46:50 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: nopardons

One of my absolute favorites.

Many Happy Returns, A,B & C, Hammer Into Anvil, and The General are my picks.


7 posted on 09/05/2016 4:24:03 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: libertarian27

Me too


8 posted on 09/05/2016 4:32:03 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Captainpaintball

Watching it seemed like 5 years...


9 posted on 09/05/2016 5:25:35 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: Jonty30

Do chrysthanimums grow on this island?


10 posted on 09/05/2016 5:26:38 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: Fai Mao

Thanks for the link!


11 posted on 09/05/2016 5:29:42 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: mindburglar

That island had some crazy geography.

I loved the vintage car - KAR120C. It was a Lotus 7 IIRC.


12 posted on 09/05/2016 5:33:08 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: wally_bert

The Prisoner or Alcatraz? Ha!


13 posted on 09/05/2016 5:35:06 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: mindburglar

The one where the Village was.

Alcatraz is a place I’d like to tour. Other than the Streets Of San Francisco episode “Letters From The Grave”, one of those Dirty Harry movies, and some of the cell block scenes in The Rock, I know nothing about it.

I’d love to see Portmerian too.


14 posted on 09/05/2016 5:44:59 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: Jonty30
There's a very interesting interview of McGoohan on a Canadian program from the mid-70s. It's on YouTube. McGoohan is tightly wound but he's was an ardent defender of the individual and his right to be left alone. He saw as intrusions on personal liberty that even many of us here on FR wouldn't (at first) would not object to.

Had he lived to see the rise of Facebook, he would have been its most vocal opponent.

15 posted on 09/05/2016 7:41:08 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Oratam

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


16 posted on 09/05/2016 8:42:37 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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