The PRISONER (ext. intro)

[deboshadow]

i discovered this show in the early/mid 90's on the sci-fi channel. it took me a few times but i was hooked and loved it.

[jayrox40]

60s tv was just so cool! Todays tv is just shit!

[Ingo64]

Is Nr. 6 identical with John Drake?

[Rollie1961]

Who is number 1?

You are number 6.......

[lilPat]

I guess that's what you get after almost spilling a cup of tea.

[bradshawvincent]

ive never thought of this before but i wonder why just before he blanks out he has that vision of the skyscrapers???

[louielouie86]

An excellent series. only people with no imagination could not understand it. Be seeing you.

[Renagade70]

"Be seeing you."

Patrick McGoohan (1928-2009)

[SierraNagual]

Rest in Peace, Number Six.

[GrandFunker]

NO MAN IS JUST A NUMBER

[SierraNagual]

I agree.

[gwellwood]

Number Six finally met Number 1

[SierraNagual]

Thank you, Thank you for posting this.

I haven't seen the complete intro since I watched the program as it aired.

Thanks./

[larrydart13]

Surely the greatest opening titles of all time of any television programme.

[vesivialvy]

I agree completely , the best ever on tv !!!

[newfy777]

RIP # 6

Patrick would have been a awesome James Bond..if he had gotten the role instead of Sean Connery[it was between him and Connery for the role] but didn't of course ,and therefore always stayed a bit under the public radar..one of the most underrated actors of all time..still love his Columbo appearence where he plays the retired military general who fires that cannon every morning..my #1 favorite Colombo episode.

[Rodimus78]

newfy777: for the record, Mr. McGoohan was offered to play the 007 role but immediately turned it down because he disliked the superspy's glamour, playboy, womanizing image, so he did Connery a favor. It was Patrick's humanitarian call to stink up people's potato chips and think outside the social box to see the layers of world that makes it round while we as a collective are fooling ourselves to make it flat.

-R78

[sidensvans54]

My car .......

[jennifersman]

The Lotus Super 7 will always be the coolest car when McGoohan's driving it. I want that car!

Number 6, you'll always be a free man.

[niveksivad]

Be seeing you No.6!

[ddgallion]

I am not a number! I am a free man!

Be seeing you Patrick.

[drbotanus]

Goodbye Pat, goodbye Drake, goodbye #6. Be seeing you.

[us71]

Good-bye, Number 6, we'll miss you.

[SardaukarPrime]

Patrick MacGohan was the coolest guy on Earth back in the day.

[0208name]

I want information (I bet i don't get it)

[teslashield]

Just Fantastico!

[MARDLtransmit]

Ah, The Prisoner...

The show that XFiles, Lost, and all those other "deep mythology shows" wish they could be.  It's going to be interesting to see what the new version does. Hope they don't mess it up *too* bad.

Be seeing you...

[charlieboy7t5]

best tv theme bar none

[helltopay1]

this is the best opening sequence and soundtrack to any tv series

[Vort317545]

This show was without a doubt one of the most deep and intellectual and well as intellgent shows ever to cross the small screen! There hasn't be one like it before or since.. God I hope hollywood never makes a remake movie of this they'd only destory it. The Prisoner was a masterpiece of art!

[MosheNL]

I saw this when it came out,and thought for sure I was having a lycergic acid flashback. British cannot be touched for drama or humour.

[ace69er]

IF I can jump in @ this juncture...I agree who i will still like to see this update of the Prisoner. Whether it will be as cerebral as Macgooeys version is yet to be seen. I LIKE the Dr.WHO revamp, its sTILL the Doctor, and its still 'deep' enough to be authentic.

What I want to ask is, has any1 seen the US version of Life on Mars?? Ch 10 are going to show it here in the next few weeks in Oz.

[ace69er]

The ABC screened the original UK ver last year, and it was a brilliant surrealist, time slip fantasy-on PAR with the Prisoner!

I think the US ver will be LAME by comparison. The Yanks CAN'T do Brit shows & can't do surrealist even less.

Any1 got any clue as to whether the US Life on Mars stacks up to the British version?

Be seeing you!

[oakandwillow]

Oddly enough, this reminds me of HERMAN'S HEAD, especially with the extremely divided Greek chorus both series seem to share in common.

[Ultrasteve1969]

Great show! and with all honesty, i hope they don't do remakes with today's tv technologies and (buffy the vampire slayer) type acting like they are doing with the "bionic woman" series.

By the way, the intro is the long version of the first episode!?

[terryjohn]

FAB SAW IT FIRST TIME SEPT 67 HAD MY OWN BLAZER WITH NUM 6 ON IT, I WAS COOL NUM6.

tezz

[10nonnaH]

Mr. Ultrasteve 1969,

You're a gent, a toff and a scholar. I hope they don't either. It is and will remain as fabulous and untouchable as it always was. A remarkable time, not to say a remarkable actor. (Sadly, I'm old enough to remember how confused we all were first time around, but I also remember the debate it caused with every episode).  Be seeing you.

[Ashworth6]

You may not get your wish, ITV have a new revamped version of the series in the pipeline as I type. They probably got the idea from the BBCs successful update of Dr Who. Hard to imagine that it could match the brilliance of the original series though. As I remember, this version of the opening credits is in all versions of the opening episode "Arrival", but was not used in subsequent episodes.

[Ashworth6]

You may not get your wish, ITV have a new revamped version of the series in the pipeline as I type. They probably got the idea from the BBCs successful update of Dr Who. Hard to imagine that it could match the brilliance of the original series though. As I remember, this version of the opening credits is in all versions of the opening episode "Arrival", but was not used in subsequent episodes.

[fogill]

Thank heaven for TV on DVD sets!

[wnett]

Great show. Here in America it was shown over the summer of 1968. I believe the creators of the current hit show "Lost" have said that "The Prisoner" was one of the inspirations for their show with its frustrating mysteries and bizarre storylines. This show drove me nuts trying to figure it out but it was one of the best shows of the 60's.

[BillDFC]

totally agree with wnett,only let down was the last episode,which couldn't live up to the brilliance of what had gone before.

[Zubdub]

It also was an inspiration for "the Truman Show", but probably most people know that. The scene where Truman is asleep on the big screen, you see the man working out on the bicycle which was in No. 2's chamber.

[BillDFC]

Who's side was he on?

[mtedora]

well obviously he's the good guy, and the forces (metaphoric as they are, arguably) are the "bad guys." the rest is up to you. that's the genius of the show.

[terryjohn]

he's own.

TEZZ

[kenrfc]

@BillDFC

THAT WOULD BE TELLING!

[TheTurnipKing]

@BillDFC It doesn't matter which side runs The Village. Oh certainly, it must be run by one side or the other, but both sides are becoming identical.

[iraqkid93]

lol i have to do a 1000 word analysis essay of this for english.

[alucard624]

I like this intro quite a bit. The british show Coupling did a spoof of the car scene in the fourth series.