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Some of the Patrick McGoohan interviews afterwards provide the best "reasons".

A truly emotional song, i'm overcum! Oh matron!! ...anyway! Thanks, this has gotta take the 'guy' in the title/lyrics! number of tracks we got to over 3000 now!! HAHAHA!!! ...nurse!

Anyone else here now Trump's got a second term?

Disappointed there was no helicopter impression through a megaphone...

had to come back to this in light of recent events (god help us)

Six of one half a dozen of another.

Hawk the Salyer is a beloved Time Travel movie for me. It instantly takes me back to ''83-84, and my friends and I watching it on a scratchy bootleg VHS, then getting the Red Box D&D out and everyone arguing to be Crow the Elf.

The Millennials and the Gen Zs are deliberately kept from this series as it is too subversive as the technology in it is now real and we foolishly ignored it's warnings.

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Some big scifi creators have referenced The Prisoner in their work, Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica namely. It's your nerdy creator's favorite cult classic and it makes sense why.

More good points.

Nice job. Those were all very good points.

14:00 It draws focus to putting effort into actually interpreting its meaning rather than mindless watching. In addition, having approached it from a political view, you will be wrong from the very beginning. In general, politics in shows with meaning is a veil to filter fools, and if the meaning turns out to end in politics, it plays itself as the fool.

My favourite jump scare is in the original House of Wax when Charles Bronson's character appears to jump up from the front row of the stalls and run into the movie. It's even more effective in 3D. It always makes me jump because I can never remember where it occurs. Trivia note: those massive autopsy shears in Exorcist 3 don't actually exist and were specially created for the movie.

there's no jumpscare in Terrifier and it works 😃😃

I was taken to see 2001: A Space Odyssey on its release when I was 8 years old. My Dad knew I liked astronomy etc and he was slightly interested too. When, right at the end, David Bowman (lying aged on the bed) turns into the Star Child I about leapt into the air. The Star Child haunted me for years, to the point where I've now seen the film countless times, read the Arthur C. Clarke book just as many and also ''The Making of 2001'' by Jerome Ager. Thanks to a jump scare that wasn't meant to be one, I now consider myself an expert on the movie lol.

My two favurite jump scares are both in the same movie. I know this is cliche, but in John Carpenter's the Thing. If you have seen the movie you know which ones I am refering to. Another more modern jump scare I really liked was in It Follows, when the titular "it" barges into the bedroom coming out of the shadowy hallway.

Wait Until Dark...my fave.

The scariest thing in the original Salem's Lot is Fred Willard playing it straight as the town lothario.

There are right wing comedians, but they don't make political comedy or observational satire, they do more things like one-liners.

My #1 is a different DePalma. The end of Raising Cain when the mom bends down to pick up her daughter and HOLY SH!T! Lithgow as the female personality behind her with this mix of love and evil on his face.

Same number one as you Mitch. Similar circumstances, similar age when I first saw it, alone in my bedroom on an old B&W portable telly. I needed scraping off the ceiling.

"You'll like Mister Barlow... And he'll like you..." My favourite jump scare, because it comes from nowhere, is from 1957's 'Night Of The Demon'. There's a character, called Rand Hobart, a farmer, played by Brian Wilde. Now Hobart has actually seen the Demon, and has had a total mental collapse because of this. A meeting of psychologists decide to see if they can get him to tell what he saw, and, against good advice revive him with an injection. Nothing happens... Until he springs up, and screams, full close up in the camera. He then runs out of the room and defenestrates himself. It's completely unexpected, as at the start of the scene, he's in a vegetative state. The film was directed by the same person who directed 'Cat People', Jacques Tourneur. It's my all-time favourite movie, and I have watched it dozens of times, and Hobart's awakening never fails to make me jump.

What projects are you working on these days, Mitch? I miss your voice on the radio. You podcast was amazing too.

For me, the most memorable one is when the body drops out of the partially destroyed boat early on in Jaws. Scared the life out of me and my mum when we saw it on tv.

The jump scare that always sticks with me is the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Been years since I've seen it but as I recall, Orlando Bloom is wondering through a jungle looking for something, he stops to pear through some plants and spy on someone and then out of nowhere this perfectly camouflaged man bursts out from the tree right next to him.

1:36 passerby mistimes throwing the V.

patrick says in interviews the penny farthing is a symbol for progress moving too fast and that he thinks progressing too fast will destroy the earth like via nuclear falloutttttt, that’s the alt end credit explained

Great video, Mitch. Thank you . “The Prisoner” never ceases to intrigue me. A couple of points spring to mind. Firstly, No 6 (or at least his mind) also leaves the Village to track down Professor Seltzman in the mind-transfer episode “Do not forsake me oh my darling” when No 6 is portrayed by that great actor Nigel (Dr Watson) Stock. I understand the purpose of the episode was to cover McGoohan’s unavailability when he was away filming “Ice Station Zebra”. McGoohan himself appears only very briefly in the episode and only then mainly in clips from other episodes that are supposed to be flashbacks. I’ve always thought that No 6 was a very brave man to drive all the way to Austria in a Lotus 7 whatever body he was inhabiting! I also understand that McGoohan himself vehemently denied that “The Prisoner” was in any way related to John Drake/ Danger Man/ Secret Agent as he didn’t want to land up in copyright problems.

Ive heard this all before

Thanks for making this vid. The POP strikes me as a message saying that the insane people who run the world are going to blow up the earth with nuclear bombs. POP

Back in my day, this is all we had and we LIKED it!

I enjoyed and probably watched each episode at least 6 times, Mitch. First off, McGoohan and Markstein were often at odds when making this series and didn't agree about who Number Six actually was. Markstein saw The Prisoner as a continuation of John Drake. McGoohan pictured him as a scientist who knew too much, probably one who developed nuclear weapons like Robert Oppenheimer. This difference helped create part of the series' naturally-ambiguous quality. Another thing about the ambiguity, I'm sure McGoohan (from the interviews) preferred the series didn't clarify itself and intentionally left much open-ended....

Watched 'The Prisoner' when it aired as a mid-season summer replacement series on CBS in the U.S., 1968. I was 5, and though many elements were far beyond my comprehension, it was a must-watch every week. Rover was terrifying. I never forgot about the series, and when the local PBS affiliate began airing the show in the late 1970s, once more it was must-see TV.

Well, he's certainly doing something now. Be careful what you wish for.

Hell drivers is a great film

I absolutely love this movie. It's brilliant, I watch it at least six or seven times a year. Hawk played Felix Lighter in a Timothy Dalton Bond movie, Licence to kill I think. I still love the old Hammer Horrors with rubber bats on bits of string. For me you don't need a huge budget as long as a film's done well : )))) As for the Witcher it sucks, I don't want to see this made for the modern audience. I wouldn't like todays idealogical loons anywhere near it. I think it's best to leave it how I remember it instead of doing the dreaded Star Wars or Indiana Jones hatchet job on it.

Super cool content - art - love this

Maybe someone already said it.... Patrick explains in an interview, no.1 is him, no.6 is his skeptical alter ego.....we are all prisoners in conformity! Going by his message, we are all no.1 and never spent enough time being no.6 and he directly relates it all to the current day and the future he saw! He made the series to make us think! What a guy! It's the interview where his hair is a little bushy. The bit about what happened to Leo McKern when filming is something!

I was born in 1994, and I first saw The Prisoner on tapes was dad recorded back in 2009 (the tapes were recorded when the show was rerun in the 90’s, I just hadn’t seen it until 2009).

The whole world is the Village. That's the only inference that can be taken from the moment he walks up his flat door in London, and it opens automatically, just as the doors had in the village. He had escaped nothing. Well that's what 12 year old me came up with, when I watched it back in the late 60's.

what were 2 1/2 stations?

afraid of weather balloons

wow thanks

I'd probably go a half size up on the jeans next time. That was... distracting.

I found out about the series accidentally, just watching an interview with Bentley Hart where he was asked about what he thinks about its series, although it was, I think, about the AMC remake, though he mentioned that the original was better.

YAY

Interesting that you mention both Patrick and Jim's as devout christians who refussed to do intamcy scenes, Neal McDonach (DC's Legends...) got prertty much black listed for the same, and I think Kevin Sorbo suffered some backlash too.. so it's not that uncommon...

Apparently, after the end of "Season One" McGoohan was exhausted, so he was pretty burnt out for the "second" season...

I visited Port Merrion, and have to say i was underwhelmed, as thanks to editing and camera work, the viiage isn't really like The Village....