The Prisoner in Holly Jolly Christmas

[justmusicandme]

"Due to rights issues and audio swap, Burl Ives sounds suspiciously like Aretha Franklin now." LOL! And now it's something else! Stop the insanity!! LOL! (Great post, very interesting. I have to imagine Mr. Ives, I guess.)

[jgarzten3]

@justmusicandme Thanks. It also looks like I need to update the Audio Swap news again. Burl Ives and Aretha now seem to be dueting with a guitar and a glockenspiel.

[justmusicandme]

@jgarzten3 : Sounds like you are a "prisoner" of youtube's policies!

[justmusicandme]

"Due to rights issues and audio swap, Burl Ives sounds suspiciously like Aretha Franklin now." LOL! Stop the insanity!! LOL! (Great post, very interesting.)

[johndrew25]

I saw that final scene as a child and it has lived in my memory as being a wonder story of freedom and release. I was so grateful the series had a happy ending, an ending where the Prisoner was free.

[AlistairAI]

if anyone understands the this last sequence please tell me what is happening i've seen the last episode i just dont understand it...

[timewind76]

How was it done? Was it a trick?

[eameece]

"Jolly Holly" is Bach's Air "on a G String" from Suite #3. It is more than appropo to join The Prisoner with Bach! The most symbolical and esoteric composer. But I guess you tube made the combo? Good choice anyway!

[uszoninyc]

Why? Don't you have a LIFE? Just because you CAN do something doesn't MEAN you SHOULD. Yes, I['m a PRISONER fan. No, it's not 'sacrilege' - it's DUMB - pointless. GET A LIFE.

[Pumpkin5767]

This the first time I have seen it, I gotta tell ya, I just love it!

[babyhomer]

This was not the song played for the ending.

[losgrindos]

Really don't rate this. How you could possibly reckon this would be a better accompaniment than Bellington's 'September Ballad' or Jack Arel's immortal 'Rag March' end theme, I truly can't fathom. The original music used was so nutshell perfect that it should never be changed, adulterated or f###ed with, like you've done here. It just doesn't fit. Underwhelming.

[efbellweather]

I am the new #2

And I don't find this very amusing!

I have arranged for your to join us here at the Village where we can discuss this further.

Rover knows where you live!

Be seeing YOU.

[feloniousbutterfly]

What was your motive. We want you in formation.

[SniffTheHedgehog]

Brilliant ... who would have thought it would work SO well ..

[Iamthewalrusgoogoo]

R.I.P. Number 6

[jonwilson]

What happened to the Burl Ives song? Did you have to remove it?

[jgarzten3]

Yes. And, even using the site's AudioSwap, the song that originally replaced it had to be removed as well.

[jonwilson]

Ridiculous...I would probably never have heard of the Burl Ives song if it hadn't been for you posting this.I subsequently bought Holly Jolly Christmas on iTunes.(will that satisfy the copyright police???)I'm a big fan of The Prisoner and the original soundtrack, and like everyone else here, I think your addition of the Burl Ives song worked perfectly. I'll just have to play the vid with the sound down, and run my iTunes alongside it....

[Wellch]

If one can find the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the song is played near the end of that Christmas show.

[jonwilson]

Oh, and thanks for introducing me to Holly Jolly Christmas...Cheers. JW. ; )

[pax1222]

Beautiful ! It fits in with the lurch of the finale. Alwaya loved it when the Prisoner finally breaks out. Or did he ? Heh Heh Heh...

[ScareMeSexy71]

it really acually works better than the origional, this should b shown every year, forget the grinch usa forget the dreary soao opera finale uk...though the dr who xmas specials rule

[deeblite]

It's amazing how well that works.

[trotter23]

The Prisoner was one of the most realised concepts of a set of ideas probably in the history of mankind.

It ranks with Plato's Republic,and Kafta's Castle and is unique in its representation of the themes that dominated the existentianal thinking of Satre and Camus.

But because it is film then the whole concept is brought into the visual sphere and with it the ideas become realised two dimensionally.

[DAZZAMAGOO]

Strange. interesting tho jgartzen3.

[kpb96m]

British T.V is King. Our American T.V really sucks. The Prisoner is such an original idea. Isn't the little butler actually Number One?

[pirate259]

Listen to the intro....."Who is number 1" "You are, Number 6"

[uogb]

no . . . .no.6 is actually no.1 I don't like to think so, but that it is how it ends in this episode, Fall Out. Did you notice on The Prisoner's front door, a big number 1? and like pirate259 said, who is no.1? you are no.6. but my question is why someone would torture himself like that? I don't know. But I like to think that he wasn't no.1

[Wellch]

To me, the door looked like a O or a 6 to me.

[jingledell666]

My god, does that ever fit....brilliant.

[andybeals]

Sickenly wonderful!

[Korea4Me]

I think Patrick McGoohan would be impressed with that. ^_^

[Wellch]

Fallout was the name of the episode if I remember it correctly.

[salmonofknowledge]

Brilliantly inspired and slightly insane - well done!

[IliotibialBand]

Whatever possessed you, it was a jolly jape! I just love the door opening and closing at his London home at the end - and of course the faithful (to whom?) butler is there! And the hearse driving past... What of Alexis Kramer hitch hiking either way on the A20... Surely no message intended!

[Wellch]

maybe referring to the beatles song 'nowhere man'. he doesn't know where he is going. LOL - just a joke. but I agree, no message intended in that.