IF IT SO HOTLY DEBATED, YEARS LATER-GOOD OR BAD, UNDERSTOOD OR ELUSIVE-IT IS IMMORTAL ART. THIS SERIES WAS ART EXTRAORDINAIRE-AND WHAT YOU BRING TO THE PRESENTATION, OFTEN INFLUENCES HOW YOU INTERPRET THE CONTEXT. IT IS STILL RELEVANT TODAY-THE REVOLUTION THAT IS ALLUDED TO IS AN ENDLESS CLASS STRUGGLE WHERE THE WORTH OF A MAN-IS STILL-MORE THEN A NUMBER!
IF IT SO HOTLY DEBATED, YEARS LATER-GOOD OR BAD, UNDERSTOOD OR ELUSIVE-IT IS IMMORTAL ART. THIS SERIES WAS ART EXTEAORDINAIRE-AND WHAT YOU BRING TO THE PRESENTATION, OFTEN INFLUENCES HOW YOU INTERPRET THE CONTEXT. IT IS STILL RELEVANT TODAY-THE REVOLUTION THAT IS ALLUDED TO IS AN ENDLESS CLASS STRUGGLE WHERE THE WORTH OF A MAN-IS STILL-MORE THEN A NUMBER!
IF IT SO HOTLY DEBATED, YEARS LATER-GOOD OR BAD, UNDERSTOOD OR ELUSIVE-IT IS IMMORTAL ART. THIS SERIES WAS ART EXTAORDINAIRE-AND WHAT YOU BRING TO THE PRESENTATION, OFTEN INFLUENCES HOW YOU INTERPRET THE CONTEXT. IT IS STILL RELEVANT TODAY-THE REVOLUTION THAT IS ALLUDED TO IS AN ENDLESS CLASS STRUGGLE WHERE THE WORTH OF A MAN-IS STILL-MORE THEN A NUMBER!
Oye! Oye! I am announcing my brilliant idea to the public!!
I will be creating game for this fantastic series! And not one of those american prisoner bullshit! The real damn thing! Thumbs up if you are with me in this!!
wow, I've seen clips of this, but just now realized it is a series. Amazing about how this show seems to be all about what is really going on in society, witch is the strawman, NWO, etc.
Its still as complicated as when first aired but I think the extraordinary rendition theme works well with The Prisoner, as Osama Bin Laden said from a mountain cave near Pakistan >> "I am FREE, are you?"
The Prisoner was awesome! I love how many interpretations there are for the last episode. I see it as the whole thing showing how you trap yourself inside your own mind. You're your own prisoner, your other side is what holds you down.
If you look at Mcgoohan's interviews and comments over the years, and I have, it seems even he isn't quite sure what it all means. As one of the supporting actors once said, "Patrick is quite religious, and I always felt it had something to do with religion." Can't say but Mel Gibson announced a desire to make a movie of it long before his rampant Anti-semitism become public (Gibson: Well, you know Jews have been responsible for all the wars in history!" ) EEEEEHAAAAA
Thanks a lot to England for this great serial. Nowhere else such a extraordinary and crazy story could be produced as there and in a time where LSD-using was usual. Great job.
Nice video. It seems there are UFO's pretending to be humans in order to post videos on human internet. Why would that be? Collin can tell the difference = (1(CollinCreatedWooWooLoyaltoCollin=Org Loyal to Collin can tell the difference between Good and Bad Org=Collin is Judge--)1)
I like the new series. Just look at McGoohan - it's not acting. He was clearly unhinged in real life. UK TV could never remake the original, they'd fall foul of employing someone sectioned under the 1989 Mental Health Act. And let's not forget, it was panned when released in the 1960's. Even Lew Grade wanted rid of the project.
@TheJomogogo You might have enjoyed it mate, but i meant the TV critics at the time. No one could understand it. Today the series looks lame and dated, but still regarded as a classic by some. Then again, so was the Triumph Herald....
Yeah I watched the series a few years ago when BBC ran it, couldn't sit through each episode because it seemed corny and trite, it didn't age well at all. The series was understood well enough at the time until the last two eps which made no sense, like the writers were on acid at the end.
@TheJomogogo You're right - the writers must have been sniffing Pledge at the end. It came out the same time as Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles (1967) which was given a hiding by the critics as well. And like the Prisoner, it was also barmy. Have you seen it?
Brilliance! A bit of G. Orwell, surrealism...not to mention wisdom. I think the best TV ever seen...and I can see how David Lynch was influenced by The Prisoner. Kudos to Patrick McGoohan.
Back in the early 70's when I discovered "Lord of the Rings" and "Chronicles of Narnia" I had hoped that the Hollywood money machine would be unable to destroy the world of Imagination found in these printed treasures. The original "Prisoner" was a video masterpiece also destroyed by the remake.
I hope 'they' don't find Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian series to name only one!
I wholeheartedly agree with all of you who think the remake was a tragic failure. One cannot hope to improve upon such a brilliant foray into t.v. history. The original will stand as a classic. Well said, everyone!
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@chrisman737 — Given that the sole Number Two was Sir Ian McKellan, I looked forward to that. But even he couldn't salvage it! I couldn't stand much more than the first half-hour.
I watched half of the first ep of the remake and had to switch off the tv because of the stupidity of it. They switched setting/events every 5 min with no explanation whatsoever and tons of weird hallucinations happened for no fucking reason.
My brother wrote the former reply, but here's my comment:
The AMC version is using simply the outline of the original series.
The original was written by, directed by AND stared in by Patrick McGoohan himself. If you pay attention to the dialog, you begin to realize that every word exchanged has some deep meaning to it, either ironically or metaphorically. The AMC version, as far as I could tell, lacked everything that made the original still enjoyable after decades.
The final episode of The Prisoner called Fall Out, is my 3rd favorite final episode of all time. The other 2 are The Fugitive from 1967 & the #1 of all is... The MASH series finale from 1983.
His suave, yet rakish, demeanor and great wit were evident in the earlier "Danger Man" series ("Secret Agent" on this side of the pond) - and still abundant years later in Cronenberg's "Scanners" and later still, "Braveheart". Who would have imagined this from a kid born in Queens (that would be the one in New York City) who studied mathematics (and boxing) in college (in the UK)?
In addition, "The Prisoner" is further enhanced by Ron Grainer's brilliant Main & End Title music.
LOVED this series..The opening sequence of Patrick McGoohan on the beach shouting " I am a free man" and Leo McKern's evil laughter is great...I must confess I was never happy with the final episode ..
Anyone who watches this series should base their lives on it...especially if they are a "greeter" at Wal-Mart....or Blockbuster video....where people say hello to you, not because they want to....but because they are "compelled" to....by their "masters"..and for MINIMUM WAGE no less!!! ..Fuck the phoneys!!! Tell society to go to hell...as soon as it becomes "forced".....and phoney...I'd rather have an honest dirty look, than get a forced pleasant "hello"....
Zatoichi444 your comment was spot on! I often try to sneak into Blockbuster to avoid the "HELLO!" . Greet me when I am at the counter or when I ask for help that's more natural.
They make everything nice and pleasant in the villiage, and think he should be happy. But he rebells because of one thing: no freedom, the individual is controlled.
The Prisoner goes with Cool Hand Luke Randall Patrick McMurphy, and other tough characters, angry with the BS and who won't conform, no matter what. Once two goons gave the Prisoner a beating when he almost got away.
After listening to a college lecture about how organzations manage, I understand the basis of Prisoner's rebellion.
The organization is not interested in individuals, but keeping the organization going at all cost. The prisoner hates this system in which individuals mean nothing and are seen as replaceable machine parts. He yells that he is a human being.
OMG, YES! That's how my rotten college treated ME. Putrid Fullerton College covered-up for a an adviser having an affair with her "pet" for whom she cheated, lied and stole 2 high-ranking student government positions --at MY expense, and it also subsequently ruined my life, finances, education. The institution only cared about preserving itself, not about clearing ME of all false charges. It needed to get rid of ME because I was wrtiing, speaking about the crooked garbage going on !!!!!!
PM: Where am I? God: In the afterlife. PM: What do you want? God: Incantation. PM: Whose side are you on? God: That would be telling. We want incantation. Incantation! INCANTATION!! PM: You won't get it. God: By hook or by crook, we will. PM: Who are you? God: The new Number Two. PM: Who is Number One? God: You are Number Six. PM: I am not a number — I am a free man! God: Been waiting to do that for ages next time you be No.2 and I'll be No. 6. PM: For the last time...B.C.N.U.
PM: Where am I? God: In the afterlife. PM: What do you want? God: Incantation. PM: Whose side are you on? God: That would be telling. We want incantation. Incantation! INCANTATION!! PM: You won't get it. God: By hook or by crook, we will. PM: Who are you? God: The new Number Two. PM: Who is Number One? God: You are Number Six. PM: I am not a number — I am a free man! God: Been waiting to do that for ages next time you be No.2 and I'll be No. 6. PM: For the last time...B.C.N.U.
there is an uprising of areas renamed "village" in London lately to segregate communities and price property out of the market (I dare you to Google Map: village london) but to what end? I worked for a rich recluse in a Walthamstow Village and there is even a gated government funded "business" community called Stratford Village (for real) where the next Olympics will be (which will have its own athlete's village)...hold on I think smell gas, is that smoke coming through the...zzz...
Pat Mcgoohan the sad loss of a genius,i remember watching The Prisoner on Border TV on sunday afternoons back in l968 when i was ten years old. The series has stayed with me for the last 40 years,it's simply the best most invetive,. original programme ever made,nothing since has even come close,Pat will be sadly missed by an army of fans.
r.i.p. patrick by the way does anyone else think the vioce over man in this sounds a LOT like the voice over bloke who whould be in ren and stimpy every now and then ( the space madness episode comes to mind) with the BIG SHINY BUTTON.
Condoleances for Patrick Mac Goohan... Danger MAN and overall THE PRISONER remain a cult TV serie for me.. Extremely original, visionary, revolutionary at these times and quite better than these twaddles of some TV "seasons" from today. J'étais fan a 13-14 ans et je le demeure !Le Prisonnier a révolutionné les séris TV et Patrick mac Goohan est un excellent acteur à la fertile imagination. Touché par son décès.
All the great ones are leaving us...Be seeing you, Patrick. He made all of us too think. And too say " No" to any and all types of villiages. A Man way ahead of his time. Information...information!
Number 6 finally made the great escape. What a great actor and what a great series. A glimpse of what television could have been and should have been.
My favorite bit from The Prisoner was when Number Six would demand "Who is Number One? WHO IS NUMBER ONE?"
The consistent answer, "You are Number Six", was maddeningly open to interpretation.
Were they just putting him in his place, or were they saying "You are, Number Six"? If you watch the whole series, you'll find it really could be either way.
Pat was a fine actor, a rare breed, who like Jeremy Brett and few others could convey by his expressions alone more than many could in a hundred words. Such powerfull acting, the Prisoner is the essence of classic British TV. He will be missed - but never forgotten.
Check out "Hell Drivers" in which he starred alongside many other British top names.
'The passion of no6' theyll call it and he'll have an affair with the tannoy anouncer and get crucified by number 2 only to escape at the end in a white shroud to 'all you need is love' oh, and rover will be his number one apostle.
I love the part of the opening where he's talking to number 2. "What do you want?" "Information." "You won't get it." "By hook or by crook, we will..."
they should have the Prisoner episodes on youtube... or hulu... or something. Does anyone know a way I can watch these without actually spending money? my dad says they're really good.
Your dad is looking at them through rose colored glasses. I thought the series was great too in the 60's, the BBC ran them about a year ago and I got all excited, but the show hasn't aged well. I could barely watch them, just like the Man from Uncle, it sort of sucks and is boring as hell by today's standards.
Met some British tourists a few years ago. They have a summer home near the town this show was filmed in (in Wales.). They told me it was dismantled mostly by then
I realized while watching the searies "Lost" that they borrowed a premise from this show. In one of the episodes in Lost they were told that they would not be able to escape from the island and find they way back without help. It was like that in the Prisoner were either the bubble captures you or you are tricked into sailing back to the island.
yeah i know what u mean i was explaining the show lost to my father a few months ago and like he was saying it sounds lot like this show from the 60s called the prisoner.
if not for iron maiden, i probably wouldn't even know about this show (i'm 31). i've seen them all a bunch of times, and the show has its brilliant moments and its totally lame moments. all in all it was extrememly creative and artistic, a benefit to television.
id heard that while he was filming ice station zebra, the second series was merged with the first, as episode numbers (commissions) were greatly reduced. mcgoohan was told short notice and had to write an ending. he explained it sas an "allegory" if you know whgat i mean
This was my favorite show at the time (first run) and I would never miss an episode. I'm afraid I did not take enough drugs (or any, at that time, for that matter) to fully understand it. Especially the Beatles ending. Something about being folded, spindled, and mutilated, I believe. Some TV writers in the UK had some good 'stuff', I gotta tell ya.
I loved this series. Fall Out was epic, especially the shoot out scene. Rest in peace, Patrick McGoohan. You've well earned it.
athroughz0t9 5 months ago
TO BAD OUR LEADERS CAN'T "HEAR THE WORDS OF THE LORD"----!
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RANDCOUNTERMAND 7 months ago
at nineteen seconds, i have ceased to watch. this is a dramatic presentation, not worthy.
mindnumber9 8 months ago
Oye! Oye! I am announcing my brilliant idea to the public!!
I will be creating game for this fantastic series! And not one of those american prisoner bullshit! The real damn thing! Thumbs up if you are with me in this!!
URealmschannel 9 months ago
Patrick McGoohan did not want a final episode that would explain all, he wanted the viewer to watch and make their own decisons. HE SUCCEEDED!!!!!
americaneagle2076 9 months ago
wow, I've seen clips of this, but just now realized it is a series. Amazing about how this show seems to be all about what is really going on in society, witch is the strawman, NWO, etc.
WONDOCTORJ 9 months ago
why did you think a giant bubble will stop him?
pivotDX123 10 months ago
I always thought The Village was a SMERSH operation...
detroyes2 10 months ago
Its still as complicated as when first aired but I think the extraordinary rendition theme works well with The Prisoner, as Osama Bin Laden said from a mountain cave near Pakistan >> "I am FREE, are you?"
ukipodder 10 months ago
The Prisoner was awesome! I love how many interpretations there are for the last episode. I see it as the whole thing showing how you trap yourself inside your own mind. You're your own prisoner, your other side is what holds you down.
Horatio 11 months ago
If you look at Mcgoohan's interviews and comments over the years, and I have, it seems even he isn't quite sure what it all means. As one of the supporting actors once said, "Patrick is quite religious, and I always felt it had something to do with religion." Can't say but Mel Gibson announced a desire to make a movie of it long before his rampant Anti-semitism become public (Gibson: Well, you know Jews have been responsible for all the wars in history!" ) EEEEEHAAAAA
captkronoscorvinus 1 year ago
Thanks a lot to England for this great serial. Nowhere else such a extraordinary and crazy story could be produced as there and in a time where LSD-using was usual. Great job.
Eremyt 1 year ago 2
Excellent.
nycolas1712 1 year ago
Nice video. It seems there are UFO's pretending to be humans in order to post videos on human internet. Why would that be? Collin can tell the difference = (1(CollinCreatedWooWooLoyaltoCollin=Org Loyal to Collin can tell the difference between Good and Bad Org=Collin is Judge--)1)
DivineNucleus 1 year ago
Looks like the place Obama would like to take all of us!
Rollie1961 1 year ago
I've seen the original series and half of the new one. Love them both. Different styles and interpretations, but both excellent.
Gaslight61375 1 year ago
The Prisoner and LOST - both will be talked about for many years to come.
SirCliveCalculator 1 year ago
Dem bones dem bones dem, dryyyyy bones...
TheEnglishHobo 1 year ago
patrick mcgoohan would have made an excellent fith doctor who.
doctorw2 1 year ago 2
The new one is a lot better than the old one
alexenterprises1 1 year ago
@alexenterprises1 how?
TherealMrChristophel 1 year ago
I like the new series. Just look at McGoohan - it's not acting. He was clearly unhinged in real life. UK TV could never remake the original, they'd fall foul of employing someone sectioned under the 1989 Mental Health Act. And let's not forget, it was panned when released in the 1960's. Even Lew Grade wanted rid of the project.
bluebus270 1 year ago
@bluebus270
"Panned" in the 60's? Everybody LOVED The Prisoner it was all anyone talked about, we couldn't wait each week for the next episode.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo You might have enjoyed it mate, but i meant the TV critics at the time. No one could understand it. Today the series looks lame and dated, but still regarded as a classic by some. Then again, so was the Triumph Herald....
bluebus270 1 year ago
@bluebus270
Yeah I watched the series a few years ago when BBC ran it, couldn't sit through each episode because it seemed corny and trite, it didn't age well at all. The series was understood well enough at the time until the last two eps which made no sense, like the writers were on acid at the end.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo You're right - the writers must have been sniffing Pledge at the end. It came out the same time as Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles (1967) which was given a hiding by the critics as well. And like the Prisoner, it was also barmy. Have you seen it?
bluebus270 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo it wasnt made for the retarded...stick with sesame street
brabon1 1 year ago 2
@brabon1
Hey loved the show in the 60's, I was just saying that it sucks now 45 years later.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo really? i think that it has more to do with today's world than the 60s
and without the prisoner, there never wouldve been twin peaks, xfiles or lost
brabon1 1 year ago
I watched about 15 minutes of the new 'Prisoner' on television last night and then switched it off.
Glamagal20091 1 year ago 2
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Watched 15 minutes of the new series and what an insult to the original.
Pat McGoohan, Portmeirion and the sixties WAS The Prisoner, it cant be redone.
Urko2005 1 year ago
Brilliance! A bit of G. Orwell, surrealism...not to mention wisdom. I think the best TV ever seen...and I can see how David Lynch was influenced by The Prisoner. Kudos to Patrick McGoohan.
MsBHoopingAllure 1 year ago
Back in the early 70's when I discovered "Lord of the Rings" and "Chronicles of Narnia" I had hoped that the Hollywood money machine would be unable to destroy the world of Imagination found in these printed treasures. The original "Prisoner" was a video masterpiece also destroyed by the remake.
I hope 'they' don't find Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian series to name only one!
Tardisius 1 year ago
I wholeheartedly agree with all of you who think the remake was a tragic failure. One cannot hope to improve upon such a brilliant foray into t.v. history. The original will stand as a classic. Well said, everyone!
christopherm2k 1 year ago 3
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deagla2 1 year ago
Stop insulting the Americans SNP and go and have another stolen Deep-Fried Mars Bar, washed down with Tennants Lager.
sjpor1 2 years ago
oh man i was forced to watch this dubbed in french in gr. 8 french class. so weird
garglfluz 2 years ago
The original is the closest that the television medium has ever gotten to art.
FastMg42 2 years ago 29
Could not stand the new version. Brooding and boring. Bland. Lifeless. Number Six is almost always a victim. Only one number Two.
chrisman737 2 years ago 17
You've got it, man.
feloniousbutterfly 2 years ago
@chrisman737 — Given that the sole Number Two was Sir Ian McKellan, I looked forward to that. But even he couldn't salvage it! I couldn't stand much more than the first half-hour.
cb50dc 10 months ago
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Just finished watching the AMC remake of this series. Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel were brilliant.
Checked this vid out on youtube because I now want to get the original on dvd. But this looks like shite, campy drama and bad music.
ScotSNP 2 years ago
I watched half of the first ep of the remake and had to switch off the tv because of the stupidity of it. They switched setting/events every 5 min with no explanation whatsoever and tons of weird hallucinations happened for no fucking reason.
ZKoftherebellion 2 years ago 5
What? The remake is garbage The writing was meaningless drivel and the actors were terrible (short of Ian MvKellan who also had the only decent lines)
You are an ignorant, aesthetically impoverished slave.
The original is the closest that the television medium has ever gotten to art.
feloniousbutterfly 2 years ago 5
Why do you have to resort to insults about such a trivial matter of a television program?
Well here is an insult to you: You are an american. need I say more? lol
ScotSNP 2 years ago
My brother wrote the former reply, but here's my comment:
The AMC version is using simply the outline of the original series.
The original was written by, directed by AND stared in by Patrick McGoohan himself. If you pay attention to the dialog, you begin to realize that every word exchanged has some deep meaning to it, either ironically or metaphorically. The AMC version, as far as I could tell, lacked everything that made the original still enjoyable after decades.
Watch the original.
feloniousbutterfly 2 years ago
The most exciting TV event of the year - if not the decade is almost upon us Prisoner fans!
The AMC re-make, with Ian McKellen as Number 2 and Jim Caviezel as Number 6 is all set to rock n' roll, on Sunday, November 15.
Number 2 has just sent me the latest footage...and I believe you'll find it FASCINATING.
Be seeing you....
amctv. com/ originals/the-prisoner/premiere/
flippinecc 2 years ago
Seen it, Caviezel is no Patrick McGoohan, and this remake is a big bloody mess of bollocks.
cha5 2 years ago 5
@flippinecc oh the gift of foresight...
TherealMrChristophel 1 year ago
The final episode of The Prisoner called Fall Out, is my 3rd favorite final episode of all time. The other 2 are The Fugitive from 1967 & the #1 of all is... The MASH series finale from 1983.
yogafan6500 2 years ago
always wanted to know you made that white ball
theENGLISHconection 2 years ago
"We start our election campaign today"
"Elections?!? in this place?"
"Are you going to run?"
"Like blazes, the first chance I get"
LOL Timeless,
No one could have done this part like McGoohan.
cha5 2 years ago 7
One of the greatest offerings from television. McGoohan was an exceptional artist - as an actor, a writer & director.
AJNorth 2 years ago 2
His suave, yet rakish, demeanor and great wit were evident in the earlier "Danger Man" series ("Secret Agent" on this side of the pond) - and still abundant years later in Cronenberg's "Scanners" and later still, "Braveheart". Who would have imagined this from a kid born in Queens (that would be the one in New York City) who studied mathematics (and boxing) in college (in the UK)?
In addition, "The Prisoner" is further enhanced by Ron Grainer's brilliant Main & End Title music.
AJNorth 2 years ago
LOVED this series..The opening sequence of Patrick McGoohan on the beach shouting " I am a free man" and Leo McKern's evil laughter is great...I must confess I was never happy with the final episode ..
DanTDrac 2 years ago
i think they should totaly remake this series :)
thewewguy8t88 2 years ago
erm....they have..it will be shown in November. Whether they should have done is another question.
kalsolarUK 2 years ago 2
The American AMC Channel made this series remake with Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel.
The set started 2 years ago.
Drow1972 2 years ago
they are but its going to be more americanized
lunastar444 2 years ago
i heard looks good honestly but idk when and where its showing lol.
thewewguy8t88 2 years ago
genious seria !
mobyboy 2 years ago
Wow, that was tricksy good sir. but THANKS OMG! :D
ch0pss 2 years ago
Awesome show! and, you can still view the show, using...
Use your secred decoder ring:
uggc://jjj.nzpgi.pbz/ivqrbf/gur-cevfbare-1960f-ivqrb/
I'll give you a hint... think: 13 :-)
geniegate 2 years ago
Four Lads - Dry Bones now on You Tube !
Buzzer365 2 years ago
amazing series, I thought it was brilliant who no. 1 was, I am amazed.
nobopoto 2 years ago 5
Patrick McGoohan was brilliant, how cool was he in this? And this is still great to watch after all these years.
RIP
schpongled 2 years ago 6
Nice i love this show
alos31 2 years ago 3
Greate series, but I experienced the final episode as dissapointing.
IanCurtis007 2 years ago
Went to Port Meirion yesterday where it was shot. Really cool place! :L:D:)
OliviaD515 2 years ago 2
Anyone who watches this series should base their lives on it...especially if they are a "greeter" at Wal-Mart....or Blockbuster video....where people say hello to you, not because they want to....but because they are "compelled" to....by their "masters"..and for MINIMUM WAGE no less!!! ..Fuck the phoneys!!! Tell society to go to hell...as soon as it becomes "forced".....and phoney...I'd rather have an honest dirty look, than get a forced pleasant "hello"....
Zatoichi444 2 years ago 4
totally
dambuvilewoman 2 years ago
Thank you......
Zatoichi444 2 years ago
Zatoichi444 your comment was spot on! I often try to sneak into Blockbuster to avoid the "HELLO!" . Greet me when I am at the counter or when I ask for help that's more natural.
TSearcy 2 years ago
@Zatoichi444 LMFAO MATE HA HA,
theBESTelvis 1 year ago
Please DO NOT remake The Prisoner
DanielBowden1975 2 years ago
pop
lukusjackson 2 years ago
does any body know what shoes he's wearing or type
timmytithead 2 years ago
they are slip on boat shoes - everyone wore them in the 60's.
LeiLei1955 2 years ago
They make everything nice and pleasant in the villiage, and think he should be happy. But he rebells because of one thing: no freedom, the individual is controlled.
000266617 2 years ago
The Prisoner goes with Cool Hand Luke Randall Patrick McMurphy, and other tough characters, angry with the BS and who won't conform, no matter what. Once two goons gave the Prisoner a beating when he almost got away.
000266617 2 years ago 2
If you are intelligent enough, and watched the series you will find Number One is a ballistic Nuclear missile!
Valkiri801 2 years ago
thx for the spoiler...!!!
fucking retarded monkey!
why would you write that?
no i dont even wants to see the damn serie.
SweetPlague 2 years ago
SPOILER ALERT MUCH?
Fuck!
roxnewstv 2 years ago
well that's one interpretation. there are a whole bunch more. that was mcgoohan's original intent.
ThingsWeSaidToday 2 years ago
I also saw it on a Sunday when I was ten. I feel the same way 2...
tonkehar 2 years ago
Chimes of Big Ben: COBB. His friend who jumperd out of the window .........! Be seeing you!
tonkehar 2 years ago
i really liked many happy returns episode
NumberSixThePrisoner 3 years ago
I have just watched all of the Prisoner, well over the course of 1 week.
I have to say, it was brilliant! One of the best series I have ever seen.
The ending was so great, yet it was so right! Obviouslt not going to spoil it foe anyone who hasnt seen it but it really is a work of art!
Classic!!!
EsrimArba 3 years ago
A classic of British tv !
copifo 3 years ago
After listening to a college lecture about how organzations manage, I understand the basis of Prisoner's rebellion.
The organization is not interested in individuals, but keeping the organization going at all cost. The prisoner hates this system in which individuals mean nothing and are seen as replaceable machine parts. He yells that he is a human being.
000266617 3 years ago
OMG, YES! That's how my rotten college treated ME. Putrid Fullerton College covered-up for a an adviser having an affair with her "pet" for whom she cheated, lied and stole 2 high-ranking student government positions --at MY expense, and it also subsequently ruined my life, finances, education. The institution only cared about preserving itself, not about clearing ME of all false charges. It needed to get rid of ME because I was wrtiing, speaking about the crooked garbage going on !!!!!!
EmpressDR 2 years ago 2
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Be seeing you !
guderianne 3 years ago
le numero 6 c'est John Drake .
guderianne 3 years ago
beseeingyou6 3 years ago
Brillant serie télé!
Nous sommes tous des pions ou des numero a vous de voir!
R.I.P free man Patrick
Authentiko 3 years ago
Very brillant series!
we're all pawns LOL
r.i.p Patrick
Authentiko 3 years ago
Poor Patrick. Number 6 lives on.
This was one of the best episodes! I loved Living in Harmony and the first episode, too.
twerd44 3 years ago
We are all in the Eu Village now.
Nu labour..?
sidensvans54 3 years ago
siempra78 3 years ago 3
there is an uprising of areas renamed "village" in London lately to segregate communities and price property out of the market (I dare you to Google Map: village london) but to what end? I worked for a rich recluse in a Walthamstow Village and there is even a gated government funded "business" community called Stratford Village (for real) where the next Olympics will be (which will have its own athlete's village)...hold on I think smell gas, is that smoke coming through the...zzz...
B.C.N.U.
siempra78 3 years ago
au revoir..
mekas28again 3 years ago
Remaking this work of genius would be like repainting the Mona Lisa to include a cell phone. Pointless. Why mess with perfection?
RIP Patrick... or rather, "Sir."
MrWoofington 3 years ago 2
Who is this actor?Is he dead?
Bokoette 3 years ago
No. He's just resting.
nickhirst999 3 years ago 3
No: he resigned
shuhelali 3 years ago
Pat Mcgoohan the sad loss of a genius,i remember watching The Prisoner on Border TV on sunday afternoons back in l968 when i was ten years old. The series has stayed with me for the last 40 years,it's simply the best most invetive,. original programme ever made,nothing since has even come close,Pat will be sadly missed by an army of fans.
beacboy61 3 years ago 3
RIP number 6
Thermalfiredotcom 3 years ago
The best TV series ever RIP No 6. Looking forward to the remake but no matter what flash technology & CGI they have in 2009 this IS THE STATMENT!
kingofpunk1967 3 years ago 2
Great actor and a great show.
If you ever get the chance visit Portmeirion in North Wales where it was set, what a place.
Urko2005 3 years ago
rip number 6
buckass 3 years ago 2
They just don't make them like this anymore. What an acting giant.
Sadly missed until we all follow...
nashnosh 3 years ago 5
Be seeing you, Patrick!
gidica 3 years ago 2
Be seeing you, Patrick !
gidica 3 years ago
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The Number 1 is The White Man: the enslaver of the free people of the World. Death to the White man.
billjesusgates 3 years ago
Its such a shame that he will never get to see the remake. RIP Patrick.
coopernaut 3 years ago 2
REMAKE??? what when who???
stiggyh 3 years ago
R.I.P. Patrick. The Village is a lot sadder.
ebf1957 3 years ago 2
r.i.p. patrick by the way does anyone else think the vioce over man in this sounds a LOT like the voice over bloke who whould be in ren and stimpy every now and then ( the space madness episode comes to mind) with the BIG SHINY BUTTON.
tonymontana1974 3 years ago
B C N U
Pete986 3 years ago
RIP Mr McGoohan, Loved you in The Prisoner and Braveheart.
MCD77 3 years ago 3
A great man leave us, reste in peace.
Le Prisonnier restera une des plus grandes oeuvres du vingtième siècle.
priels1240 3 years ago
Condoleances for Patrick Mac Goohan... Danger MAN and overall THE PRISONER remain a cult TV serie for me.. Extremely original, visionary, revolutionary at these times and quite better than these twaddles of some TV "seasons" from today. J'étais fan a 13-14 ans et je le demeure !Le Prisonnier a révolutionné les séris TV et Patrick mac Goohan est un excellent acteur à la fertile imagination. Touché par son décès.
patricknce 3 years ago
All the great ones are leaving us...Be seeing you, Patrick. He made all of us too think. And too say " No" to any and all types of villiages. A Man way ahead of his time. Information...information!
tonkehar 3 years ago
RIP hero. A sad day indeed.
mygad 3 years ago 2
Number 6 finally made the great escape. What a great actor and what a great series. A glimpse of what television could have been and should have been.
TorontoRichard 3 years ago 2
My favorite bit from The Prisoner was when Number Six would demand "Who is Number One? WHO IS NUMBER ONE?"
The consistent answer, "You are Number Six", was maddeningly open to interpretation.
Were they just putting him in his place, or were they saying "You are, Number Six"? If you watch the whole series, you'll find it really could be either way.
Brilliant.
wildshovel 3 years ago
Be seeing you No. 6
lauram42 3 years ago 2
Be seeing you Patrick...
Ataru320 3 years ago
OMG I really thought he'd be back someday as #6. Who can take his place? No one in my heart.
nhbright 3 years ago
Back in the 1960's, when I was in Catholic grade school, Patrick McGoohan as Number Six was my mentor and role model.
I was NOT stamped, breifed, de-breifed, indexed or numbered.
My life is MY own!....
I learned to rebel, thanks to him.
I also know how to THINK.
And I have passed that on to other...HOPEFULLY not....Number Sixes.
muscababy 3 years ago 2
R.I.P. Patrick. A great man, a great series and a true icon. A free man at last. Be seeing you.
mi1964amigo 3 years ago
Reposes en paix, Eternal Hero
BERTRAMCAT 3 years ago
RIP Patrick McGoohan.
asphodeline 3 years ago
Patrick was the most dignified person in the entertainment world, and a creative genius.
He is Number 1.
gli7utubeo 3 years ago
Long Live No.6. In Memory of Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009
yogafan6500 3 years ago
My favourite quote - "Are you hammer or anvil"!
Pat was a fine actor, a rare breed, who like Jeremy Brett and few others could convey by his expressions alone more than many could in a hundred words. Such powerfull acting, the Prisoner is the essence of classic British TV. He will be missed - but never forgotten.
Check out "Hell Drivers" in which he starred alongside many other British top names.
RIP Pat.
593OLYMPUS 3 years ago
RIP, Patrick!
wjwmorrow 3 years ago 2
Patrick was brilliant as the prisoner,one of the finest programmes ever created.
BillDFC 3 years ago
RIP. Good stuff mate. God Bless.
radiomodeller 3 years ago
what ever you do Patrick, don't say to god, "I wont filed, Stamped, briefed or number, I resign!" R.I.P. Portmeriron is a shrine....
papalazaroo801 3 years ago
RIP Patrick McGoohan.
sfordcar 3 years ago 2
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RIP Patrick. You will be best remembered for No6.
tenterden16 3 years ago
I just heard that McGoohan's died, I was so shocked. The Prisoner is my favourite programme. RIP Patrick McGoohan
rockandrollgirls 3 years ago 2
Amazing show.. excellent concept.. pathed the way for Lost, Alias and Fringe...
GeeDhillon 3 years ago 2
Coolest. Show. Ever.
plev10 3 years ago
'The passion of no6' theyll call it and he'll have an affair with the tannoy anouncer and get crucified by number 2 only to escape at the end in a white shroud to 'all you need is love' oh, and rover will be his number one apostle.
randypanhandy 3 years ago
they are remaking this with jim caviziel from the passion of the christ
matmatmat589 3 years ago
bee seeing ewe
lefteri2000 3 years ago
Unfontunately, we're all numbers.
slapstickmartin 3 years ago
I love the part of the opening where he's talking to number 2. "What do you want?" "Information." "You won't get it." "By hook or by crook, we will..."
Dooplissfilms 3 years ago
This show is so quotable. One of my favorites is "After the war? Before the war? Which war?!"
heiamll 3 years ago
they should have the Prisoner episodes on youtube... or hulu... or something. Does anyone know a way I can watch these without actually spending money? my dad says they're really good.
grandpumbah 3 years ago
Your dad is looking at them through rose colored glasses. I thought the series was great too in the 60's, the BBC ran them about a year ago and I got all excited, but the show hasn't aged well. I could barely watch them, just like the Man from Uncle, it sort of sucks and is boring as hell by today's standards.
barflewk 3 years ago
Totally disagree....Today's standards are as poor as you can get.
BillDFC 3 years ago
Completely disagree. I think the series stands up very well, especially the final episode: Fall Out.
trafficmeter 3 years ago
there is a remake being shown at xmas
saralouise2776 3 years ago
Met some British tourists a few years ago. They have a summer home near the town this show was filmed in (in Wales.). They told me it was dismantled mostly by then
k4jdp 3 years ago
It wasn't...... and hey!! ( as you say) it's still the best, espionage I've seen!!
englishjames007 3 years ago
Its the hotel called Portmeirion, and it hasn't been dismantled much.
fufuscott 3 years ago
Id try to escape as much as possible. If not, cause as much trouble as I could. Vandalize, kill, etc. Make them want to get rid of me.
Zobor111 3 years ago
I love that one line
"Are you going to run?"
"Like blazes the first chance I get."
vzerby 3 years ago 5
Weird..I had to see what the Iron Maiden song Prisoner was about...man that's trippy.
AncientToast 3 years ago
I realized while watching the searies "Lost" that they borrowed a premise from this show. In one of the episodes in Lost they were told that they would not be able to escape from the island and find they way back without help. It was like that in the Prisoner were either the bubble captures you or you are tricked into sailing back to the island.
davidscalling 3 years ago
yeah i know what u mean i was explaining the show lost to my father a few months ago and like he was saying it sounds lot like this show from the 60s called the prisoner.
thewewguy8t88 3 years ago
if not for iron maiden, i probably wouldn't even know about this show (i'm 31). i've seen them all a bunch of times, and the show has its brilliant moments and its totally lame moments. all in all it was extrememly creative and artistic, a benefit to television.
raztaman420 3 years ago
One of the best tv series ever made. A programme that treated the viewer with intelligence and challenged you to think.
bobgrantsbus 3 years ago
id heard that while he was filming ice station zebra, the second series was merged with the first, as episode numbers (commissions) were greatly reduced. mcgoohan was told short notice and had to write an ending. he explained it sas an "allegory" if you know whgat i mean
kaledmasterme 3 years ago
my name is such for good readon. Also,the i is missing. be seeing you.
hypnotstcollector 3 years ago
Greatness.
DerrickthePinecone 3 years ago
This was my favorite show at the time (first run) and I would never miss an episode. I'm afraid I did not take enough drugs (or any, at that time, for that matter) to fully understand it. Especially the Beatles ending. Something about being folded, spindled, and mutilated, I believe. Some TV writers in the UK had some good 'stuff', I gotta tell ya.
Be seeing you!
DoktorFranken 3 years ago
Weird and brilliant. One of the most creative shows to ever air.
kellystone84 3 years ago 2
i would just love to thank iron maiden for getting me to think about this
jahsper01 3 years ago
oh just tell me please?
TomBakerIsMyHero 3 years ago
so is number 6 number 1 then? i avent seen this i am getting a dvd for my fifteenth birthday.
TomBakerIsMyHero 3 years ago