"The Prisoner" Opening credits/sequence

Intro to the Old '60's British Spy TV series. Has a cult following, including me. Lots of fun.

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Film & Animation

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• prisoner
• opening
• british
• tv
• Patrick
• McGoohan

[ryoushii]

A lot of people here just don't get it. Watch the final episode Fall Out, and just read the labels for each of the councilors - The fundamental theme of the show is how to maintain a distinctive individuality in a society and system that demands fundamental conformity - it doesn't matter the political label or whether public or private - corporations are as dangerous to individuality as any government. The goal of ALL organizations, private or public, is conformity and power.

[mrslovedavidboreanaz]

patrick mcgoohan is hot. and this show is awesome. i really wish i had been alive during the sixties.

[redrocklass]

I've been reflecting a lot about this series lately as it truly seems we are currently living our lives in this same manner. I never would have imagined 50 years ago that this would be the case today.

[cha5]

"Who is Number One?"

"You are... Number Six"

[cha5]

@lazzer408 Well 'Fallout' might not be to your taste, but I loved the final revelation about Number 1. For me McGoohan's vision of the individual vs conformity is something that has never been equaled.

[brianboru62]

McGoohan was fantastically creepy what a guy idosynchratic brooding why on earth he never became massive i dunno?Last film i saw him was Braveheart as 'Longshanks'Edward 1st who was a complete bastard ,McGoohan lived up to the part Why he never got a part in any double agent /spy/espionage blockbusters baffles me r.i.p Patrick.

[straydoggio]

LOL. Why did he take the ticket from the machine at the entry barrier? He took it and didn't even wait for the barrier to rise because his low-profile roadster car fitted right below the barrier. And after his stormy resignation there didn't seem to be any car park barrier at the exit, or if there was it was it was of the same type. (I used to love this show btw)

[hanoc101]

@lazzer408 Could not agree more about the "ending" Felt cheated when it ended the bs way it did.

[lazzer408]

Ah yes, This disaster. The ending sucked. It managed to suck me into watching all the episodes, and some were amusing at best, but the ending just sucked. Once you see the ending you'll be like "wtf" and want to shoot yourself for wasting so many hours watching it. Did I mention the ending sucked?

[robsargent4]

@MrBEB123 what? how can you get Communism & Liberalism mixed up? Thatcher was in many ways a Liberal in the classical sense. Would you call her even slightly Keynesian, let alone Communist? I don't think so.