How funny this was a show I found very scary and unsettling. I used to have a lotus 7 replica, worked on the door at the top of the ramp and worked inside Parliament too. About time I watched it again.
Some great production, but also some of the worst acting ever. The wooden McGoohan is terrible, every gesture overdone, every line squeaked out like some thespian on a stage. Lol
This intro underline the logical flaw in the Prisoner Series. The entire thing is about getting him to reveal why he resigned. Well, for someone who is intent on holding back that information, why the hell is he ranting and banging his fist on the table when he hands over his resignation?? Did his favourite soccer team lose? Did he tear his best trousers? Seems all that ranting was nothing to do with his reasons for resigning; just shouting for the sake of it. Total logical flaw ...... Lol
At 1.23 a very good Trompe-l'œil painted background! In the last year I've parked several times at that first underground carpark he goes into at 0.23. Its still there! London buildings are a lot cleaner but so much more traffic. I went to Port Marion 30 years ago and bought a no6 mug "i am not a number I am a free man!"
Really must watch this series again! I have memories as a child, of sneaking downstairs when I couldn't sleep, and watching a strange TV programme, with Mini-Mokes and a giant bubble chasing people! I loved it when Channel 4 showed the entire series in the 80's - I made my girlfriend watch it, and she was at first confused, but did really enjoyed it! 😄
The best part of the whole series it goes downhill after that Lol I am old enough to have watched it on tv made even less sense on reviewing . ,recently. Maybe if you were on LSD it would be more entertaining .
Fun fact: the producers actually built an office in an unused room of the underground parking garage (I know that the Brits say "car park"), adding a little verisimilitude.
It is a bit of an oversight by the writer/producer that a man as angry as The Prisoner would stop to take a parking ticket from the dispenser. Although i know the barrier would not rise unless he did. Maybe I am analysing the intro a bit too deeply? Still a brilliant series, still watching it, my favourite! 🤔😜
Maybe there was a camera which recognised his number plate and if he hadn't taken the special ticket he would not have been able to enter the secret tunnels. Or maybe something worse would have happened. It seems as if he definitely knee he HAD to have the ticket.
Mm do do an internet search:"prisoner+ unmutual". This website is now prob the foremost re data on this hugely influential and mega cult late 1960s TV series. It incl info on the regular FREE location tours (2 pa in central London and occ ones in Elstree + Borehamwood). The latter, just north of London and the UKs Hollywood is where most of this show was filmed. The NW Wales wonderful village of Portmeirion was actually only used in 2 "shoots"...BCNU
This is the opening of the pilot episode. We don't yet know who, what or why but by just after 30 seconds we know he's a good guy. He buys a ticket even though he could just driven under the barrier. Excellent storytelling.
How funny this was a show I found very scary and unsettling. I used to have a lotus 7 replica, worked on the door at the top of the ramp and worked inside Parliament too. About time I watched it again.
Some great production, but also some of the worst acting ever. The wooden McGoohan is terrible, every gesture overdone, every line squeaked out like some thespian on a stage. Lol
This intro underline the logical flaw in the Prisoner Series. The entire thing is about getting him to reveal why he resigned. Well, for someone who is intent on holding back that information, why the hell is he ranting and banging his fist on the table when he hands over his resignation?? Did his favourite soccer team lose? Did he tear his best trousers? Seems all that ranting was nothing to do with his reasons for resigning; just shouting for the sake of it. Total logical flaw ...... Lol
Be seeing you… excellent series and one of the best opening sequences ever
The uk is the village
Great show legend great actor Patrick rip he was great in ice station zebra and brave heart
The man behind the desk is George Markstein.
i thought that video meant prisoner cell block h aussie australian television tv series
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At 1.23 a very good Trompe-l'œil painted background! In the last year I've parked several times at that first underground carpark he goes into at 0.23. Its still there! London buildings are a lot cleaner but so much more traffic. I went to Port Marion 30 years ago and bought a no6 mug "i am not a number I am a free man!"
OMG they sent Rees Mogg after him
Could be. Even now they're not sure who acted the 'undertaker' role in the intro.
No traffic in central London. Heaven
The door with 'way out' on sets up the whole series.
It's an often used phrase in the UK to indicate the exit.
Back when the UK was great-not like the 2024 disaster😡
Ah - the days when you could actually drive in London! The Prisoner - strange but somehow very compelling!
Good old 15 frames per second.
London looked beautiful back then compared to today.
Lovely clean uncluttered London..............
with roads you could actually consider driving on
ridiculous what 60 years can do to a city
Really must watch this series again! I have memories as a child, of sneaking downstairs when I couldn't sleep, and watching a strange TV programme, with Mini-Mokes and a giant bubble chasing people! I loved it when Channel 4 showed the entire series in the 80's - I made my girlfriend watch it, and she was at first confused, but did really enjoyed it! 😄
What type of car was he driving?
Lotus Seven
One of the most iconic tv series ever , “ I am not a number , I’m a free man “ …… The reality is it will soon be a crime to say those words ………
Many a true word.....
You could always say those words. But western society made sure it was a mockery of a statement.
@@paultrought267 For sure , but I’m not a number and I am a free man ………
I always wondered how a secret agent could be so oblivious to a hearse that is nefariously shadowing his movements.
The best part of the whole series it goes downhill after that Lol I am old enough to have watched it on tv made even less sense on reviewing . ,recently. Maybe if you were on LSD it would be more entertaining .
Whose number one. Not, who's number one.
Fun fact: the producers actually built an office in an unused room of the underground parking garage (I know that the Brits say "car park"), adding a little verisimilitude.
Show!
01:31 - I aspire to get out of a car as cool and smoothly as that. Bucket list stuff.
One of my favourite programs of all time
Be seeing you.
This is an INTENSE scene. Iconic. Once in the "secret agency" there is NO WAY OUT.
Timeless and brilliant 👌
💙
Britain...what the hell happened ??
The prisoners stopped fighting back
I agree...
Windrush, Dr Beeching, Idi Amin kicking out the Asians and town planners destroying perfectly good town centres.
Brexit 😂
@@growlerthe2nd712 but we weren't part of Europe when the Prisoner was made ? 🤷
Wonderful stuff! Remember this from when I was a child!
How right they were in 1967.
It is a bit of an oversight by the writer/producer that a man as angry as The Prisoner would stop to take a parking ticket from the dispenser. Although i know the barrier would not rise unless he did. Maybe I am analysing the intro a bit too deeply? Still a brilliant series, still watching it, my favourite! 🤔😜
Still ahead of the times after nearly 57 years.
Maybe there was a camera which recognised his number plate and if he hadn't taken the special ticket he would not have been able to enter the secret tunnels. Or maybe something worse would have happened. It seems as if he definitely knee he HAD to have the ticket.
@@malcolmbacchus866 🤔
seemed to be more footage on this than when the serious started.
Filing system at 1:28 is, in fairness, better than that on my Chromebook.
Mm do do an internet search:"prisoner+ unmutual". This website is now prob the foremost re data on this hugely influential and mega cult late 1960s TV series. It incl info on the regular FREE location tours (2 pa in central London and occ ones in Elstree + Borehamwood). The latter, just north of London and the UKs Hollywood is where most of this show was filmed. The NW Wales wonderful village of Portmeirion was actually only used in 2 "shoots"...BCNU
specifically not too near rhyll but adiquitly far away from
your in wales love
i do that every day, what country, what place and what year is it yaaaaahggg
you know why cruise reinvented mission impossible, you can not better the prisoner series
This has to be the best intro ever to a TV series.
0:44
This is the opening of the pilot episode. We don't yet know who, what or why but by just after 30 seconds we know he's a good guy. He buys a ticket even though he could just driven under the barrier. Excellent storytelling.
@@altern8tive ...the plot thickens
Parking pass
i’m standing outside his flat on Buckingham place watching this on my phone
@@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb Freak ;-)
Yeh, but he parked on a yellow line 😂
Jacob Rees-Mogg as a junior minister, in the department for gassing retired spies.
Who is No1? You are No6!
FOR GOOD .....WHY ...
Il est beau, un génie ❤🙏