The Prisoner Opening Sequence

[Blitzberg86]

I almost expect to hear the drums kick in towards the end.

[Azartusfar]

Much Much better than the newer version they tried to do, I just recently rewatched the series actually.

[Wyndrax]

Not a prisoner.. I'm a free man!

And my blood is my own now!

Don't care where the past was,

I know where I'm going.. out!!

[paulmurphy42]

"If you haven't watched this show, you haven't lived..." I say old chap, that's a bit strong!

[Mayhemers]

@Versal12 - not a brony, but I know too many of them currently to be ignorant of the entire phenomenon :p

[Mayhemers]

Ponies?! Has someone edited together MLP:FiM with the Prisoner music then? :p

[versal12]

@Mayhemers weird you knew JUST which ponies he was talking about. so be completely honest. you a brony to :P

[Azartusfar]

They did?

[atomheartother]

@Mayhemers DUDE WHAT THE FUCK

I get off a pony thread

> "hey, let's check a RANDOM youtube video that hasn nothing to do with ponies"

> see this

I love y'all

[NewPunchinPaul]

Ponies led me here. Amazing

[archiecallie]

Ron Grainer's propulsive score heightens the drama of this sequence and that of the entire series....instrumental in creating the tension and conflict in the world of Number 6 in The Village. The series wouldn't be the success it was without it.

[skizz06]

Great classic TV show. Thanks for posting!

[soadhusky]

i first heard it on prisoner from iron maiden :)

[DanTDrac]

Leo McKern's laugh following " I am a free man" is great..

[matrixinterface]

Every once in a while I get to quote a line from this beginning, my favorites being "That would be telling." "By hook or by crook we will." and of course, "I am not a number, I am a free man." I'm always tempted to shout that last one anytime I have to "take a number" at the DMV or something. I have resisted that urge... for now........

[Divaorah]

I need to rewatch the whole series again soon. Love it!!!

[greg589]

I AM NOT A NUMBER I AM A FREE MAN!

[pablogic]

Dear flyboysevere and Elephantintheroom01. Please mind your manners. Your quarreling is annoying and pointless. One of you thought the ending sucked and the other thought it was not pointless. Maybe even brilliant? Calling each other names will not illuminate anything. Why not talk about WHY you did or didn´t like the ending instead?

[cosmicdingo]

One person will never be Number Two.

[TheThunderduck]

I think the best episode is the one where he actually escapes. Makes it back to England, Tells his old bosses about the village. He gives them rough co-ordinates so they begin a search by aircraft with him in the Nav seat. When they find the island, the pilot smiles and says "Be seeing you" and ejects him. First time I saw that it floored me.

[cosmicdingo]

Definitely a v-8 in that Lotus.

[F7FALCON]

a passing resebalits to david cameran and how he fellt like wene he wet to bid for 2018 at fifa

[kzintichmee]

Look closely, it's the "F" key that is being struck but "X"s are put on the picture. Never noticed it until now. I love this show.

[cyrilconnection]

best science fiction series of all time !

[flossjw1]

I think the best thing about that series was the opening.I think there were more weird episodes than good ones,never did catch 'em all.

[Lightstrikers]

The lack of opening sequences today killed the theme song genre. They were the greatest little mini master pieces.

[BananaJournal]

Who is Number One?

YOU ARE, number 6.

[AsaphProject]

@BananaJournal Tricky.

[cosmicdingo]

Never saw the last episode-- how does 6 discover he is the new director?

[juancarloscondegarci]

i haven't seen the show, but i know something. from now i'm opening doors that way way and carry with me recorder that has the sound of thunder

[brabon1]

attention everyone, cartoon network and paul dini are doing their own kinda remake of the prisoner....a sorta what if xmen met the prisoner...its getting mixed reviews

40 years later and still having an impact on society

long live sir patrck

[Music4Ever]

"Who is Number 1?"

"You are, Number 6."

Love it!

[middyseafort]

@Music4Ever The answer to the show's number one mystery revealed each week. Got to love it!

[boabyp]

I was born in 1965. I stayed up late on a Monday evening to watch repeats of of this show on ITV, around 1973, Monty Python was on BBC2. The Old Grey Whistle Test was on late too. No better upbringing for an eight year old. The most intriguing thing I ever read about this show is that "No 1 IS No 6". All the different No 1's are manifestations of No 6's psyche. Patrick McGoohan was a genius! This was the most innovitive television series ever made. I die happy.

[brabon1]

@boabyp except for some sequences with computers, the show doesnt age...and its theme is even more relevant today

everyone talks about the innovations of shows like twin peaks and lost....but mcgoohan did it all 30 years before

and then a&e mucked it up with that awful remake

[Elephantintheroom01]

@boabyp Have you ever seen the end? It sucked. It was so.... predictable and illogical. No.1.... he isnt number six...

[brabon1]

@Elephantintheroom01 the end of the original? sucked? i think ive watched it a thousand times...i love every minute

the final two episodes of the prisoner may be the best things ever put on tv

[Elephantintheroom01]

@brabon1 Don't troll, you must have no taste, and by that i mean, intelligence.

[brabon1]

@Elephantintheroom01 if you didnt like the final epi of the original, you have the intelligence of a flea

kill yourself before you find someone as dumb as you to procreate with

[Elephantintheroom01]

@brabon1 You have been counter-trolled.

[MrJumpingjack]

it´s really cool..... i love the series

[CR055H41RZ]

*deep inhale*

"win!"

[larrydart13]

Surely the greatest tv theme and opening sequence of all time plus rover as well.

[ACasualVillain]

Really cool! Awesome Soundtrack, really dig the music and the vibe of this. Will definitely check this show out.

[doctorw2]

i love the message given in the series finale of this show you can either choose your given role in society or be your own person.

[cuteycindyhoney]

I would give up driving for a whole year, if I could have the use of that car for only one week!

[cuteycindyhoney]

@paullubliner no deal. unless I drive!

[cuteycindyhoney]

@paullubliner I could always give you a ride first, and then we could get in the car. (^_^)

[cuteycindyhoney]

@paullubliner What pictures? How did you send them? I never posted my email address here.

[equestrianstatue]

Hi OlagGan, I guess you're right. It's been a long time since I watched the series as originally broadcast on TV, but I still have whole chunks of dialogue imprinted on my brain, and as you've pointed out, I have a somewhat selective memory.

[lightowler1]

Oh the days when you could drive around London like that!!!

[deathstarmygnr]

I took a film class about a year ago and our professor showed us The Prisoner, and to this day I think it is one of the best shows ever made.

[equestrianstatue]

Who are you?

The new number 2

Who is number one...........

YOU ARE, number 6.

[OlagGan]

@equestrianstatue Actually that particular part depends on the person who is doing the voice for Number 2 (They did have several number 2s doing the voices.) Some emphasised it as "YOU are number 6" whilst others went "YOU ARE Number 6" and others went for the bog standard "You are number 6"

[Succubus006]

EXCELLENT!!

[Psychocybinator]

That Lotus 7 makes me cream.

[InklingFan]

Lost wishes it were The Prisoner.

[petranilla14]

I loved this show..." where amI? In the village"!!!!!!

[Gallifrey103]

2: 06 , -is nobody going to ask how you did that?

Who is number one?

YOU ARE Number Six!

[Gallifrey103]

@paullubliner I mean the fact the episode title didn't appear.

[pixusbubblejet]

the music is soo sixties baby!

[Nemo35K]

this is such a catchy tune, I've had it stuck in my head for a day or two now

[brabon1]

@Nemo35K its been stuck in mine for 40 years

[3piper]

@Nemo35K We just got it on PBS.I was humming the tune at work and someone else said he was watching it too!!

[JAYROX1969]

This is the real deal, FUCK THE REMAKE!!! Pat McGoohan will always be the Prisoner!

[helltopay1]

11 year old kid walking to school monday."we want your homework"

"you wont get it!!!" I WAS the prisoner.

[Yakfuji]

@helltopay1 have to admint i've strode down many a corridor with that tune in my noggin :)

[KVID1000]

splendid !

[benkid77]

Thanks for posting the entire intro as it should be.

Without doubt this is the coolest , most dramatic TV intro ever broadcast. Nothing since can touch it.

Seems they picked a really fine day to film it too, great weather!

[Gondaldin]

We want information... information... information!

Who are you?!

The new number 2.

Who is number 1?

You are number 6.

I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!

hahahahahahahahah

*Clive Burr starts playing the drums and few beats later the entire band starts to play one of their best songs*

[saksalainenreika]

I am not a number I am a free man!

Huhahahhahahaheeeee.

[padyer]

If he had just packed his suitcase before resigning he woul have been fine, silly man!

[fleecefox]

Haha, the opening title is almost as long as an entire episode.

[muzcu]

for all your information, prisoner is a typical piece of the stunning way of utopias. in this piece, we like the story 'cos utopia goes distopia because there is this "one guy" who think about the system :) the prisoner is a quite popular example of utopia origined pieces, so glad that people like it and it shall lead people to "think", not be "a number" :D

[killerwhaleocelot]

Look, NOTHING can beat the original prisoner. It is a masterwork, a jewel and if you can't take it then don't talk about it. The reamake is stupid. Who can match Patricks great method acting?

[DanTDrac]

Amen..The remake SUCKED!!!!!!!

[Elephantintheroom01]

@killerwhaleocelot The ending sucked. They just couldnt be bothered.

[flyboysevere]

@Elephantintheroom01

Oh dear...........you appeare to have missed the whole point 

[Elephantintheroom01]

@flyboysevere -.- I bet i havent and your just running your mouth.

[flyboysevere]

@Elephantintheroom01

Your woeful punctuation and grammar , merely supports my original comment .You lack the intellect, education and basic language skills, to even attempt to comment on something that is out of your feeble brain's comprehension .

Now come on - let's see how you can impress us all with a really witty and relevant reply. Chav .

[Elephantintheroom01]

@flyboysevere If you are gonna bullshit yourself i don't see why you chose to right it out. Do you feel inadequate in some way that you need to tell ME the lies you tell your self? I suppose a few spelling mistakes means i have no right to think. What do you want? Me to turn in my brain and my badge? Hehe, is this the best counter argument you can come up with? At least you havent committed any flaws and fallacies yet, but then, you haven’t done ANYTHING besides rudeness, and you call me feeble.

[flyboysevere]

@Elephantintheroom0'

Ho ho ho . what an amazing collection of plagiarized cliche's from a myriad of cheap 'gangster' tracks - a genre that, from your 'street-speak' jargon, appears is is one that you identify with.

Sadly (for you) it is total gibberish .

This one-sided invective I no longer find purposeful.

Could you please send me a sample of your DNA in case , at some time in the future , I need to clone myself a new ARSEHOLE !

[flyboysevere]

@Elephantintheroom01

Fail

[Elephantintheroom01]

@flyboysevere Aw, babies first fallacy. Think about it: does simply implying fail mean anything? No, sorry, thats just a bias or an appeal to popularity. Unfortunately you haven’t said anything which can be proven and no amount of butthurt is going to change the fact that your a idiot who has no argument or point to make.

I think your just fighting because your life sucks, not because of me.

[KevalProduction]

my supper told me this is the biggest mind fuck ever one telvsion...im watching the ipsodes now and i find it really predictable....thats so sad...for me

[F7FALCON]

it wood be nice if somone mached an opening with lupen the 3rd with this music

[Zevemiel]

Can people stop spoiling the remake, please?

[DarkeRaven09]

The remake is spoiled on it's own... and if you're wanting to be surprised... wait, are they going to reshow it again? I thought it was a three night event (and they announced the DVD won't be out until March 2010 at the end of the run).

[juggep80]

I watched the remakes first episode. The old guy in the beginning who died was very similar to number 6 of this show, with the same kind of jacket and home decorated in 60s style.

[Chummerov]

This is SO fromage. I for one love the remake.

[DarkeRaven09]

That's it! That's it!! If somebody would be so kind as to explain the cluster(bleep) that was the (bleep)in' ending of the stupid AMC The Prisoner please do! My head hurts from the retardedness of it all!!

[JAG312]

There is no question that a lot of money and effort was spent on the new Prisoner. It proves that money can't buy quality. The actors did as good a job as they can, but they were handicapped by a script whose most appropriate use would be as toilet paper.

[killerwhaleocelot]

Thank you

[JAG312]

You are most welcome.

[DarkeRaven09]

Just finished my first two hours of reviewing the new Prisoner. I watched it with a completely open mind hoping that it would blow me away and make me a true believer once I closed my review for the night and came here to speak of it.

Now where do I go to get two wasted hours of my life back. The show got a 1 out of 5 two times out for being utter trash. Stupid remake, I hate you!

[DarkeRaven09]

HINT : Unlike this powerful opening sequence for McGoohan's The Prisoner the new one has a lame boring opening with the dullest opening music ever devised (where he resigns by scrawling the worlds "I RESIGN" on a huge office window and walks out).

Somewhere in Heaven Patrick McGoohan weeps.

[DarkeRaven09]

...damn... mispelled "words". Oh if I could convey the boredom of the new opening for The Prisioner. If only I could!!

[davidaaronclark]

I doubt he weeps. More like RAGES!!!

[DarkeRaven09]

Night Two (last night) I was more open minded and left the review at 2 and 3 out of 5 with the series ending tonight at middle of the road with tonight being make or break... though honestly for every one moment which showed promise there was endless minutes of boredom and inept scripting (if not acting at times), not to mention the show just seemed too distracted and lacked any of the real impact and sheer psychological drama that McGoohan's Prisoner was so rich and vibrantly stocked with.

[DarkeRaven09]

Tonight if the show can stand to get to the damn point we're looking for the following...

1-Answers about the damn holes.

2-The drugs and their place in the plot.

3-Six and Two finally having a confrontation that isn't dull or drawn out and boring or pointless.

4-Finally why Six was dragged off to the Village, enough of this crap about making the Village the only topic of discussion (god this show is so village obsessed!)

5-The Dreamers, why 909 had to die, something good!

Reviewing...

[Laceykat66]

So, did they have a show in the can, realized they had miss-cast it,, and changed the name to "The Prisoner" to get us to watch?

I liked #2 but had no interest at all in #6. I did not care who he was, why he was there, or who ran "the Village." Watch "Chimes of Big Ben" then watch the AMC remake and tell me which is better.

[DarkeRaven09]

No need. I already know which is better (the classic McGoohan Prisoner is better).

[Hanson913]

I remember watching the show when it first came out. I was 14 and it was spellbinding. And the last episode when everyone is running around firing submachine guns with "All You Need Is Love" playing in the background was surreal for 1969!

[dominoize]

Rap producer Timberland uses this theme for his track "We At It Again". Dang, everyone watched this show, lol!

[kitsune361]

Wow, Timberland really does rip from everyone. Has he ever written any music himself?

[dominoize]

Haaa!

[DangerousD6969]

same can be said about P Diddy, Rhianna, and basicly the entire rap industry

[plusbabs]

Best opening theme/scene in tv history! Can't wait for the new series.

[RexKarrs]

Best of the best, with the voice of Leo McKern.

[DarkeRaven09]

Really? Then this is the next to last episode's opening and the credits aren't seen until the end if I remember right (he was only Number 2 near the very end, and that was so he could try to finally break McGoohan's character, which ultimately failed).

[RexKarrs]

I expect this was from "The Chimes of Big Ben," which was Leo's first gig as Number 2, and which was a fairly early episode.

[DarkeRaven09]

The new series starting in a few days.

Somehow I can't shake the words of Kintaro (Kamen Rider Den-O) when I think of what the new series will do to me when I first see it... yes, I fear it'll probably make me cry... and I don't mean that as a compliment. No way.

[plusbabs]

I don't know, from the trailer and what I've read, it may be different enough that it will work. Try to look at it with an open mind.

[tubian323]

2:44 Number one is pee-pee!

[tubian323]

I'm just kidding, love the show.

[billsblots]

Just Excellent! Very good quality and also the follow on capsule of the whole premise of the show, which was shown at the beginning of each show. Very nice.

[TheWIRC]

There was some dispute over whether this series was a continuation of The Segret Agent/Danger Man show McGoohan did.

McGoohan said The Prisoner was a completley different series. The shows producer disagreed and marketed it as a continuation.

The compromise was, I guess, not giving him a name just a number.

It actually references the theme music from the Secret Agent in which the lyric "They've given you a number and taken away your name" is heard.

[whizbang47]

That show as too true for tv. Once in awhile (not in recent years, though) PBS had a "The Prisoner" marathon. I love the episode where he escapes and goes back to MI6 or whatever and tells them about the island and the village and they fly him back there in a reconnaissance plane, playing along, and once over the village they eject him.

[ibanezguitarman]

WHY?!!!!!

[Bigfinlach]

I Am Not A Number! I Am A Free Man!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...

[mastermold2009]

I want his car. It's shagadelic, baby!!!

[Mayhemers]

I actually saw a Super 7 just a couple of days ago and naturally it made me think of the show again...

[paullubliner]

Mayhemmers, I've owned Lotus Super Seven for 26 years. Because I first saw it on this show in 1968. What a sheep I am.

[jimraw1]

I've always wanted one! Worried about that crappy British electrical system, but what do you think of the car? I agree it was my favorite car along with the Batmobile.

[JAG312]

I've always liked the Lotus Seven even before I first saw The Prisoner, but I liked the Lotus Elan of Mrs. Peel even better. Did you know that Lucas electrical systems work on smoke? When the smoke leaks out of the system, then the car stops working.

[Gaslight61375]

@Mayhemers I saw one parked at the post office a couple years ago and nearly pocketed it (because it's so small, you see)

[cosmicdingo]

@Mayhemers Lotus Super Seven was a "Kit" car which could use several engines including a big block Ford v-8, which was Number 2's obvious choice.

[OlagGan]

@mastermold2009 That is the Lotus 7 Series 2 (I believe it's a Series 2.) Lotus decided to give up on the Lotus 7 in the 70s (I think), however one part of the Lotus Operation decided to keep the Lotus 7 going and created Caterham Cars which now produces the Seven in several flavours (Do a search on Caterham Cars. I can't post the link) In fact the person who runs Caterham Cars actually appeared in the final episode of The Prisoner (Fall Out) as the person who delivers Number 6's Lotus 7.

[mastermold2009]

@OlagGan Thanks for the info :)

[tv10morehead]

"I will not be filed, stamped, briefed, debriefed OR NUMBERED!"

[lamachinacoudre]

mon feuilleton préféré

[EddieRevenge]

Somebody can say to me in wich episode the actor says the text from the Begginin of the song "The Prisoner" of Iron Maiden?

[GOTTERDAMMERUNGSR]

I too watched it when I was 15 or 16-I didn't quite get the whole thing but I knew it was really cool-RIP Mr McGoohan

[emerytownblues]

Leo McKern... that laugh at the end.

[Chawman]

One of my all-time favorite shows.

BTW, IMO, Leo McKern was the best Number 2

[tonkehar]

BE SEEING YOU......I watched this show one summer when i was 16...I am 56....I'm still watching it because many years later it is still one of the best series every..Be seeing you.

[Faistin8]

Cool

[kygent508]

I watched this as a summer fill in when I was 12.I am 53.

[crosswire40]

Holy crap i have to watch this show!

[RosaLui]

It's amazing. :)

[elliotpav]

Indeed it is, so are all the ITC shows!

[stevelathamuk77]

u gotta do more than watch this show...live it.. its the best.

[astralseeker]

BEST OF THE BEST !

[bederrick]

What a great series this was! (TV today is barely worth watching). One of the first attempts at a series with a surrealist/existentialist theme... in 'Fall Out,' the prosody gives it away:

Q: "Who are you?" A: "The new No. 2" Q: "who is No. 1?" A: "You are, No. 6!" - great show, great actor.

[fokjock]

Q.Yes, but who is number 1?

A. That would be telling!

[DanTDrac]

A GREAT series...

[jadeedrie]

Great show. I remember watching it as a kid and rented the entire show from the library to watch it once more. Boy does it bring back lot of memories for me.

Patrick McGoohan is great actor and will be greatly missed.

[lightowler1]

Those were the days when you could actually drive around London. Always makes me want to rush out and get a Lotus 7  R.I.P Pat

[PrincessMaryals]

OMG I had forgotten how totally cool and heavy this TV Show was. Thank you.

Mary

[QAFtuvok101]

Number Six has finaly escaped The Village.

RIP

[spion0007]

Nice :) Great channel you have here!!

[slappy6817]

Patrick McGoohan: A true legend!

[SierraNagual]

Truly one of the greats of all time.

Nothing can compare to The Prisoner!

RIP Patrick.

[cosmicdingo]

Excellent classically trained thesp who turned down BOTH James Bond and Simon Templer roles. Nobody like him today.

[actionsub]

@cosmicdingo When the series first aired in the States, someone commented that McGoohan's eyebrows were more violent than most of the "violent" shows on TV. Nobody, except maybe Edward Woodward, could match McGoohan's intensity.

[whu58]

Im gutted,........patricks is not with us any more, but Im still inspired by his legacy.

Thank you for making one of the best series of the 1960`s (The Prisoner), and not forgetting Dangerman.

You would have been a better James Bond than Connery!

Be seeing ya!

[kombatzero]

R.I.P God bless you Patrick. The Prisoner