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  • @Terry.W
    @Terry.W 5 лет назад +27

    This series remains as enigmatic and surreal as ever.

    • @dantyler6907
      @dantyler6907 2 года назад +4

      Some of the best TV, ever.

  • @TheWarsuron
    @TheWarsuron 5 лет назад +31

    The series is more relevant today that you know Mr Sheridan
    be seeing you 👌

  • @skymansteve
    @skymansteve 5 месяцев назад +9

    My dad built the raft that he escapes on and has a very short appearance in the episode

  • @chriswhite2576
    @chriswhite2576 4 года назад +9

    What was so surprising about Port Meirion was how small it was, when I visited it.

  • @saabtech3510
    @saabtech3510 4 года назад +16

    In episode 5 at the 12:00 mark, there is a conversation between the current #2 and #6. This one minute conversation reveals the whole setting of the series. Who controls the village? Which side? (Which side of the "iron curtain", as that is what the spy agencies were aligned with.) #2 says that it does not matter, because both sides are becoming a mirror of each other. (Communist dystopian technocratic tyranny. My words.) He says they merge into one and form the new world order. Global system. (So, the Village is a real prison, but it is just what the entire planet is becoming, but on a small scale. This is why, in my view, there is no escape from the Village. The globe is becoming the Village. #6 holds out hope that he can escape and bring the Village to the attention of his superiors, to set things right. But his superiors were always part of the system that created the Village, and put him there when he resigned.) Interestingly, this is based on the true nature of our world. The West is to become a mirror of Russia and China. The current pandemic is being used to move this agenda forward. It is real, and not just a 1960's TV show.

    • @ulrichenevoldsen8371
      @ulrichenevoldsen8371 4 месяца назад +2

      I agree with a lot of what you say here. A good example i think would be 15 min towns or whatever they are called. And yes a lot of what happened during the "pandemic" too

    • @DarkSideofSynth
      @DarkSideofSynth 2 месяца назад

      Exactly right. Those in control - REAL control - own each & ever side. Or theirs would not be real control ;) It's a game, always has been, and games need opponents, sides, factions, us vs. them.

  • @RicktheRecorder
    @RicktheRecorder 4 года назад +6

    Interesting and helpful. Two minor errors with the synopsis. It's a launch, not a trawler, and he asks Mrs Butterworth to shew him the lease of the house and the log-book if the car. He notes that it is a newly drawn up lease giving no indication of his previous tenancy, and similarly the log book for the car is a replacement, with his previous ownership unrecorded. There is no record of Nr 6's previous existence in reality.

  • @deadsteve2180
    @deadsteve2180 2 года назад +16

    Number 6 asks who Number 1 is in
    the opening title sequence. He gets told, "YOU ARE Number 6". So
    right from the very beginning the answer was there. We are ALL Number 6, and Number 1 at the same time.

    • @himoragenma6416
      @himoragenma6416 Год назад +2

      👏👏👏🏆

    • @paultimson6674
      @paultimson6674 Год назад

      no you have it wrong.. you are number six, a man, a prisoner. the number of a man 666, who is number one, he answers this at the end, i'm number one? I AM GOD. He has LOST - God first, everything else second, satanic. His inquisitor is Satan. His face changes, he is polite, nice, polite, and will kill you if you say Christ is number one. The prisoner is released, Satan leaves the village, now in the Global village. This is explained in episode 2, chimes at midnight. Now all the world is one global village, using credits, cash is abolished, using generic foods, using uber cabs, using information with huge blank areas, fake news. No in depth analysis, just the same banal facts repeated.
      Who's side are you on? we want information? it's not Russia? China? or Britain, Not France? not one nation in charge? its all nations. so who's side are you on? is meaningless.. unless it's about God. why did you resign? GIVE UP ON LIFE, why did you stop caring about your work, your life?
      So at the end they all sing - The leg bone is connected to the hip bone? Now hear the word of the LORD. this is a song that reworks EZEKIEL. about a dead nation called ISRAEL that will put itself back together. the bones reform, flesh is added and life breathed back. WHY THIS SONG?
      1967 - the six day war. Israel is in the news. All of this is masonic signalling. Chequered floors. and Mystical references to Freemasons. Masked balls. They all know each other. Its satan that runs China, that runs the USA, that runs Britain. We have an illusion that they are separate. we go to wars. and end up pals with Germany and Japan? we fight like fools and a month later its all been settled? friends again?
      who is number one - God is number one, Satan is number two. He is here to question you. to test every prisoner on earth. To see if you FOLD.
      the PRISONER LOST. he say himself as NUMBER ONE. an individual. He is not part of God's Family.
      the door hums, it opens and he is back in his real prison, life.
      I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN.
      when Christ said to Caiaphas I AM.. Caiphas tore at his official garments. Blasphemer. No Jew wants to say - I AM , as its reserved for God. It places YOU at the centre of the world. You are declaring you are sovereign.
      its prideful. I am the master of my fate - invictus.
      This tv show is all about Freemason values. a declaration of intent. Of what the future is bringing. Generic foods in the cabinets, which were actually duplicates of economy lines in British supermarkets? Morrison's own brands? which I found hilarious. Yellow and white tins, with chicken soup? as a label.
      It has credits in the bank. that's the future. You will have no cash.
      If you do not conform, you will be ignored. ostracized. Like in one episode.. un mutual. he is un mutual.
      Do not Forsake me o' my darling... On this our wedding day? Jesus the bridegroom and his Bride.
      even Napoleon a grand Orient Freemason , the most famous freemason in history shows up.
      Its all freemason signalling. the Gigantic bubble. the Mark. O. oo - that bounces about. FIDO. a weather balloon. oo.

    • @frankshailes3205
      @frankshailes3205 Год назад +2

      There is no comma.

    • @commandingjudgedredd1841
      @commandingjudgedredd1841 10 месяцев назад

      "You are, Number 6." There you go.

    • @Fatazz
      @Fatazz 4 месяца назад

      Having just watched the show, I didn't come to that conclusion. But going in, knowing this is a common conclusion, there is one scene in, I believe, the first episode, where number 2 asks, "Is that an order...". I did find myself thinking what would have happened if he had said yes. It never happened again.

  • @catherineoconnell3213
    @catherineoconnell3213 Год назад +5

    we are all in the "village"
    get IN FORMATION
    stay in line.......
    you can never RESIGN
    you always RE-sign back into system.....
    many happy returns...
    we are trapped......
    just a number
    until your number's UP!
    B seeing U /07/2023
    13

  • @jdlotus8253
    @jdlotus8253 5 лет назад +7

    I haven't seen this since it was first broadcast. I was just a kid and what I understood from it was that once you join the security service, they never let you go.

  • @ExpressoMechanicTV
    @ExpressoMechanicTV 5 лет назад +9

    Interesting thoughts on this episode, of what must surely be, the most thought provoking TV series ever made.

  • @timcanuti5697
    @timcanuti5697 4 года назад +9

    The symbolism corresponds to the major arcana of the classic tarot, beginning with Judgement (everyone "called to glory") proceeding through The World (the Village) all the way down to card zero, The Fool, depicted by the unspeaking gypsy man and his dog.

  • @RightNowMan
    @RightNowMan 5 лет назад +8

    Well that was truly excellent. Cheers!

  • @pyjama9556
    @pyjama9556 2 года назад +5

    This episode in particular you realise how far the villages influence can reach!!
    Maybe he was targeted/suggested for village induction by his closest colleagues/superiors.
    The very people he thought he could trust.
    Such an incredible series and one that never stops being relevant.

  • @denisej1329
    @denisej1329 5 лет назад +4

    Wow. That's amazing. Gret architecture as well. Thanks ~ and be seeing you

  • @toml.1408
    @toml.1408 Год назад +2

    "Many happy returns" was an outstanding episode. 😮

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 3 года назад +4

    I’m binge watching the series now!

  • @Modwiz125
    @Modwiz125 5 лет назад +9

    That was excellent, Thomas. I really enjoyed the ride of your analysis and some of the architecture stimulated ancestral memories. Memories of our pagan genius.

  • @Solus793
    @Solus793 5 лет назад +5

    brilliant content Thomas
    edit: just re-watched the first episode from the bluray boxset, this show is a masterpiece, can't wait for more analysis!

  • @James-nl6fu
    @James-nl6fu 11 месяцев назад +4

    Originally, Mcgoohan intended to make just 6 or 7 episodes. In one parallel reality I believe the prisoner escapes and makes it back to London successfully. Being allowed to extend his artistic choices to many more episodes was I believe the trigger that let his "cold war" paranoia and ego run 🏃‍♀️ completely out of control resulting the controversial "Fall Out," final episode that so divides fans❤️I'd prefer that he successfully escapes.

  • @aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930
    @aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930 Год назад +2

    That gesture they sometimes do with their hand in a position that resembles the number six is very similar to a gesture used in freemasonry. I'm uncertain what if any relevance this has but just wanted to mention it. I'm speaking of that strange salute people in the show sometimes do when they say be seeing you.

    • @frankshailes3205
      @frankshailes3205 Год назад +1

      It is based on the "fish" gesture early Christians used to recognise each other, which Freemasonry may have taken on. Also shaped like a 6.

  • @VideoGamersOasisPlayTheatre
    @VideoGamersOasisPlayTheatre 5 лет назад +6

    Great review of this memorable episode, from a truly unique, brilliant and avant-garde TV Series. I remember renting the entire series on VHS from the public library. Great commentary on Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and The Monomyth! Keep doing Mystic Movie/TV Show Reviews. I appreciate the work you do. Cheers!

  • @hubieheathertoes
    @hubieheathertoes 5 лет назад +3

    excellent analysis, thanks Thomasso

  • @denisej1329
    @denisej1329 5 лет назад +3

    Wow. That's amazing. Thanks - and be seeing you.
    This is one of the best channels here (the others being your namesake and Open Source Occult TV)

  • @Dutch1954
    @Dutch1954 2 года назад +1

    Outstanding examination and summation here. The Prisoner has lived with me since I saw it's original airing in the United States as a boy of 14 years old. It then took nearly 30 years till the development of widely available computing and the Internet to give me a steady stream of INFORMATION about this show and I have to say it has been quite a ride. I never ever considered all the clues, signs, and telltales that were there in the show all along. In Formation, indeed. Made my day, dude. Thank you, very well done.

  • @unassailable6138
    @unassailable6138 2 месяца назад

    If I'm not mistaken, I remember Patrick saying that the village was a physical location, and there was no occult meaning behind it it, it was what it was. However parallels can be made as all physical stories are used by authors since Homer and possibly before, to symbolize deep psychological truths. Thank you for the beautiful video.

  • @jeffbecker8716
    @jeffbecker8716 3 года назад +7

    OK, but where is the "Occult Analysis" in your title? There are many Illuminati and MK-Ultra references.

    • @sevenv2154
      @sevenv2154 19 дней назад

      The freemason emblem is also present in a couple of other episodes during the trial scenes

  • @timleopardxolo
    @timleopardxolo 4 года назад +3

    Great stuff. One of my favourite episodes of 'The Prisoner' ever.

  • @steve-r-collier
    @steve-r-collier 4 года назад +4

    Rule of 6 just been announced 2020

  • @crimesagainsthumanity2059
    @crimesagainsthumanity2059 5 лет назад +17

    They don't make shows like this anymore. A good story with lots of hidden meaning.
    These days Hollywood is total shit.

    • @dantyler6907
      @dantyler6907 4 года назад +1

      ...And as far as that goes, this was made in europe, as far away from hollywood as anyone can get.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 3 года назад

      @@dantyler6907 Wales isn’t Europe.

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 3 года назад +3

    Wasn’t ‘Mrs Butterworth’ in A B and C?

  • @kelloggkirsten
    @kelloggkirsten 5 лет назад +5

    For me, this is an analogy of returning to the land; "lost at sea" concept; walking amongst the dead; ya know, the 1666 Cestui Que Vie, that still applies today when one does not claim life, return to claim his estate from being administrated by the "Alice and Wonderland" courts (i.e. fiction/color of law), and chooses to act "legally dead" under the Law of the Merchant; on the sea, is where the pirates are fought ! There's no record of "his" name on the lease record because he never existed "in life" and a dead man can not have title to land!

  • @VideoChallengeUSA
    @VideoChallengeUSA 11 месяцев назад +3

    Interesting psychological theories, but I think the episode DID happen in the fictional universe of the show -- which makes it all the more frightening. Additionally, I feel that the black cat, etc., were all just red herrings thrust in by the Village superiors as an attempt to see how they might further put Number Six off-guard.

  • @michaelnorthcote3194
    @michaelnorthcote3194 2 года назад +2

    I enjoyed this video. Many Happy Returns is my favourite episode. I wss born in the late 80's and love the Prisoner.

  • @michaelcostello8145
    @michaelcostello8145 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you Thomas for that

  • @888rogermoore
    @888rogermoore 5 лет назад +3

    Bravo

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 4 месяца назад +1

    Love Mr Sheridan and love this show, his great to hear his analysis!

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 3 года назад +3

    Thomas why is there a star map in the control center? Are these people from another galaxy?

    • @paultimson6674
      @paultimson6674 Год назад

      you are number six, a man, a prisoner. the number of a man 666, who is number one, he answers this at the end, i'm number one? I AM GOD. He has LOST - God first, everything else second, satanic. His inquisitor is Satan. His face changes, he is polite, nice, polite, and will kill you if you say Christ is number one. The prisoner is released, Satan leaves the village, now in the Global village. This is explained in episode 2, chimes at midnight. Now all the world is one global village, using credits, cash is abolished, using generic foods, using uber cabs, using information with huge blank areas, fake news. No in depth analysis, just the same banal facts repeated.
      Who's side are you on? we want information? it's not Russia? China? or Britain, Not France? not one nation in charge? its all nations. so who's side are you on? is meaningless.. unless it's about God. why did you resign? GIVE UP ON LIFE, why did you stop caring about your work, your life?
      So at the end they all sing - The leg bone is connected to the hip bone? Now hear the word of the LORD. this is a song that reworks EZEKIEL. about a dead nation called ISRAEL that will put itself back together. the bones reform, flesh is added and life breathed back. WHY THIS SONG?
      1967 - the six day war. Israel is in the news. All of this is masonic signalling. Chequered floors. and Mystical references to Freemasons. Masked balls. They all know each other. Its satan that runs China, that runs the USA, that runs Britain. We have an illusion that they are separate. we go to wars. and end up pals with Germany and Japan? we fight like fools and a month later its all been settled? friends again?
      who is number one - God is number one, Satan is number two. He is here to question you. to test every prisoner on earth. To see if you FOLD.
      the PRISONER LOST. he say himself as NUMBER ONE. an individual. He is not part of God's Family.
      the door hums, it opens and he is back in his real prison, life.
      I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN.
      when Christ said to Caiaphas I AM.. Caiphas tore at his official garments. Blasphemer. No Jew wants to say - I AM , as its reserved for God. It places YOU at the centre of the world. You are declaring you are sovereign.
      its prideful. I am the master of my fate - invictus.
      This tv show is all about Freemason values. a declaration of intent. Of what the future is bringing. Generic foods in the cabinets, which were actually duplicates of economy lines in British supermarkets? Morrison's own brands? which I found hilarious. Yellow and white tins, with chicken soup? as a label.
      It has credits in the bank. that's the future. You will have no cash.
      If you do not conform, you will be ignored. ostracized. Like in one episode.. un mutual. he is un mutual.
      Do not Forsake me o' my darling... On this our wedding day? Jesus the bridegroom and his Bride.
      even Napoleon a grand Orient Freemason , the most famous freemason in history shows up.
      Its all freemason signalling. the Gigantic bubble. the Mark. O. oo - that bounces about. FIDO. a weather balloon. oo

  • @paulsinclair2583
    @paulsinclair2583 4 года назад +3

    I believe this was initially based on the story of the mad major.

  • @5cloudwalker
    @5cloudwalker 4 месяца назад +1

    Had number 6 trashed and burned the village would he be allowed to???

  • @robbinpapalucas4620
    @robbinpapalucas4620 5 лет назад +6

    I watched the prisoner when a teen ager still watch it. Patrick M. A genius.

  • @christinepreston48
    @christinepreston48 Год назад +1

    And re the lingering doubt where the village was? I learned in Cheltenham in 1977 that it was in Portmeirion, in Wales.

    • @Benjiesbeenbetter.
      @Benjiesbeenbetter. Год назад

      Wouldn't that have made an interesting twist?
      No 6: Here are photos I took of tge village.
      Boss: Ooh, Portmeirion! Lovely, I took the wife and kids there last year. Did you try the ice cream? Rather good as I recall.
      No 6: I was held prisoner there for six weeks.
      Boss: You lucky so and so. I tell you, after the week I've had, I wouldn't mind being held prisoner there fore a few days.

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 5 месяцев назад +1

    Except in the real world, you can resign. I did. But at the same time, MI5 has D Notices and the Official Secrets Act, and you know how far yo can go. Some say you shouldn't start. It's not as if they're that switched on, I've met them for both good and bad a number of times: I knew full well it was necessary to go off piste once, and so recruited someone a little bit heftier than them, so when they did start their bit, I simply introduced them to the bod, and all was well.

  • @Coldnewton
    @Coldnewton 5 лет назад +2

    You have a remarkably enquiring mind.

  • @koris994
    @koris994 Год назад +2

    Fucking trippy

  • @crusty21
    @crusty21 4 месяца назад +1

    Very interesting analysis using allegory for this episode. I think one can peel away more layers and take away more meaning using this method. One which I think McGoohan himself intended . Each of us is indeed number 6 a " Prisoner" in a world experienced thru the 5 senses plus 1. That 1 extra higher sense is allegory. Where the other lower 5 keep you in the village experiencing the " literal " reality, asking who is number 1 leads you to "see" the bigger picture. Also notice, the warders of the village always try to keep you from number 1 and in the 5 ( the dumbing down ) and stay in the litteral interpretation of things. This is especially true of fundamentalist religion doing this with the bible. It would be very interesting re-watching the series with this perspective as I'm sure people will get way more from it.

    • @carolebarker2195
      @carolebarker2195 2 месяца назад

      So, being number 6, he is in a higher consciousness than the lesser numbers? This could be explained allegorically in the way they keep showing "Rover" the white balloon, surfacing from below the water. Breaking the waves into a higher realisation, so to speak.

    • @crusty21
      @crusty21 2 месяца назад +1

      @@carolebarker2195 Interesting observation there. Rover also comes from below to "smother" those that get out of line....out of "in-formation". Out of the programing that comes from below, in the water of the womb. Kind of like an agent Smith....Soo many syncronicities.

  • @micealocadain
    @micealocadain 3 года назад +2

    I was always confused by that series, I watched many episodes hoping to gain some insight. Thanks Thomas for putting that to rest.🙏🏻

  • @l0g1cb0mb
    @l0g1cb0mb Год назад +1

    Works for the end sequence showing #6 behind bars at the end every episode, if I remember correctly all but one was it, not sure if that's aa real memory. As as kid I loved Spy movies and shows, and the remark this was 007 for the psyche and Bond was for the physical - I paraphrase, was spot on! Very nice break down - as a kid I couldn't see any reason to want to leave the Village, and wanted Rover as a pet (never wanted it after me though). But as an adult each relived episode I experience as new meaning through adult eyes that I somewhat understood as a kid, but feel I get more as an adult and would rock with if I were a Professional Spy, that telling, would be telling, and #6 was too good for that, even though he let that tail follow him home and nab him in the first place, but I ain't playa hatin' - Stay alert, stay alive is all I'm sayin'!
    And too this day I too say "Be seeing you!" haven't used the gesture since folks started getting stupid about seeing symbols and thinking you mean stupid things like WP and such, and I'm Black, but it is what it is. I figure Rover's hauling them off to his lair for disposal, and if it's all mental, you get where that's goin' I reckon.
    But I ain't one to gossip... .

    • @Venejan
      @Venejan Год назад +1

      Same here! At age 13 I wanted to live in the Village too, and I thought No. 6 had really lucked out. I saw it as a utopia with all those beautiful buildings and friendly people, and actually visiting Portmeirion as a teenager was an almost mystical experience!!

  • @alexandretorres5087
    @alexandretorres5087 2 года назад

    This was the first episode I saw of the series. Amazing.

  • @geoffreywooledge6118
    @geoffreywooledge6118 2 года назад +1

    18 days at sea. 6 is the number of man according to revelation

  • @miltonknowlestheinsanewitc4996
    @miltonknowlestheinsanewitc4996 5 лет назад +4

    Places like that Village exist as experiments but you do not get away from them a live no matter how far you run

  • @Johnbryan0
    @Johnbryan0 3 года назад +1

    Brilliant

  • @dontletthemstealyourejoyan9559
    @dontletthemstealyourejoyan9559 5 лет назад +3

    The fuckung village isn't normal to start

  • @Solus793
    @Solus793 5 лет назад

    don't keep us waiting too long for the next installment on The Prisoner please Thomas

  • @denisesaric3082
    @denisesaric3082 5 лет назад +5

    Be seeing you...

  • @jenniferflores3360
    @jenniferflores3360 5 лет назад +2

    This was so interesting and I never even seen the series. How do you do it Thomas?

  • @dantyler6907
    @dantyler6907 4 года назад +1

    Because the woman character speaks in unintelligal hooey, it can be well argued that NO dialogue starts in this episode until after 24 minutes elapse.

  • @crimesagainsthumanity2059
    @crimesagainsthumanity2059 5 лет назад +4

    Europeans still make really good shows. I very rarely watch shows anymore and when I do they are always made by European studios.
    Europe has kept the Muse spirit that American cinema has mostly lost.

    • @beyondroom3133
      @beyondroom3133  5 лет назад +3

      @@GoIdenApple I'm Irish and I am also European - but not and EUpeeon.

  • @barefootanimist
    @barefootanimist 5 лет назад +3

    I found this a few years back, and while it's certainly dated, it's a lot of "deep" TV, especially given that the '60s and '70s gave rise to a lot of weird series...

  • @CarlosAlberto-ii1li
    @CarlosAlberto-ii1li 5 месяцев назад

    Her late husband has passed away.......................well.

  • @christinepreston48
    @christinepreston48 Год назад +1

    Why isn't there a new 'The Prisoner' series? Can't anyone find an actor so good as Patrick McGoohan? And he was the script writer too. They got to do a new one at Portmeirion too, otherwise it will / would be no good!

    • @CarlosAlberto-ii1li
      @CarlosAlberto-ii1li 5 месяцев назад +2

      As a human being no one could touch him, he was brilliant.

  • @christinepreston48
    @christinepreston48 Год назад

    Well, everybody thinks the show started in 1967 but I started watching it in July 1964 in Brussels on BRT - a chnnel which also showed the original series of Star Trek.

    • @frankshailes3205
      @frankshailes3205 Год назад +1

      Filming began in August 1966. Perhaps you are thinking of its precursor, Danger Man?

    • @christinepreston48
      @christinepreston48 Год назад +1

      @@frankshailes3205 i KNOW it is strange. I am not making a mistake re the date because I was sent back from Katanga, Congo in April 1964 by air. I stayed with friends. Then my parents returned by sea because my father had internal bleeding and in July 1964 we stayed in an apartment in Brussels where there was a colour TV. I got the series 'The Prisoner' from BRT and there was the big baloon showed in the story, and I remembered the name of the episode as 'The prisoner'. I was particularly keen on it as well as the Star Trek series shown on the same channel, but in colour, whereas The Prisoner was in black and white. The series that is said to have been filmed in 1966 is in colour and I am sure it was not 'Danger Man'. I have never seen 'Danger Man' and hope to soon when I got a new TV so i can use a video player as my TV is incompatible being too old. The series or episode [I only saw that one episode or may be 2 and remember my parents asking me to join them when going shopping and I said 'No' as I wanted to watch it] was not on the French RTB channel. The Flemish speaking people liked movies in English. My mother tongue is French but I could understand English. I wonder whether they filmed a first 'episode' of The Prisoner in 1959 or before those of 1966, and by 'episode' I mean a show of one hour - [hope it's correct].. I do remember it being in black and white, yet the TV had colour because Star Trek was in colour. If they filmed Danger man in Portmeirion, perhaps they did an episode, or may be more, of The Prisoner? In this story no.6 runs on the beach and is caught up by the balloon. I noted it was a very strange concept... but the story goes that they had planned something else than this balloon and it had a defect, then they thought of this idea... I wonder when exactly. I can't have gone into a time warp or something... and watched The Prisoner in 1964, and I was for one year in Belgium in a boarding school, then returned to Katanga for 2 months, then my mother and I moved to Brussels where we didn't have a TV. She bought a flat at Avenue de l'Exposition, Jette, in 1967 and the TV was black and white, and I didn't watch any program, just the news, then I moved out and didn't have a TV, then arrived in London in 1968, and still didn't have a TV! I saw The Prisoner in 1964!

  • @Ageratos-Henosis
    @Ageratos-Henosis 3 года назад +1

    This is a great analysis👍😎 Has anyone seen the movie Seconds? I think it is review material. A rich group extend their youth.

  • @steady2wheels
    @steady2wheels 2 года назад

    so who is number 1? if 6 is 1, is 1 representative of self actualisation, the centre of the labyrinth?

    • @paultimson6674
      @paultimson6674 Год назад

      you are number six, a man, a prisoner. the number of a man 666, who is number one, he answers this at the end, i'm number one? I AM GOD. He has LOST - God first, everything else second, satanic. His inquisitor is Satan. His face changes, he is polite, nice, polite, and will kill you if you say Christ is number one. The prisoner is released, Satan leaves the village, now in the Global village. This is explained in episode 2, chimes at midnight. Now all the world is one global village, using credits, cash is abolished, using generic foods, using uber cabs, using information with huge blank areas, fake news. No in depth analysis, just the same banal facts repeated.
      Who's side are you on? we want information? it's not Russia? China? or Britain, Not France? not one nation in charge? its all nations. so who's side are you on? is meaningless.. unless it's about God. why did you resign? GIVE UP ON LIFE, why did you stop caring about your work, your life?
      So at the end they all sing - The leg bone is connected to the hip bone? Now hear the word of the LORD. this is a song that reworks EZEKIEL. about a dead nation called ISRAEL that will put itself back together. the bones reform, flesh is added and life breathed back. WHY THIS SONG?
      1967 - the six day war. Israel is in the news. All of this is masonic signalling. Chequered floors. and Mystical references to Freemasons. Masked balls. They all know each other. Its satan that runs China, that runs the USA, that runs Britain. We have an illusion that they are separate. we go to wars. and end up pals with Germany and Japan? we fight like fools and a month later its all been settled? friends again?
      who is number one - God is number one, Satan is number two. He is here to question you. to test every prisoner on earth. To see if you FOLD.
      the PRISONER LOST. he say himself as NUMBER ONE. an individual. He is not part of God's Family.
      the door hums, it opens and he is back in his real prison, life.
      I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN.
      when Christ said to Caiaphas I AM.. Caiphas tore at his official garments. Blasphemer. No Jew wants to say - I AM , as its reserved for God. It places YOU at the centre of the world. You are declaring you are sovereign.
      its prideful. I am the master of my fate - invictus.
      This tv show is all about Freemason values. a declaration of intent. Of what the future is bringing. Generic foods in the cabinets, which were actually duplicates of economy lines in British supermarkets? Morrison's own brands? which I found hilarious. Yellow and white tins, with chicken soup? as a label.
      It has credits in the bank. that's the future. You will have no cash.
      If you do not conform, you will be ignored. ostracized. Like in one episode.. un mutual. he is un mutual.
      Do not Forsake me o' my darling... On this our wedding day? Jesus the bridegroom and his Bride.
      even Napoleon a grand Orient Freemason , the most famous freemason in history shows up.
      Its all freemason signalling. the Gigantic bubble. the Mark. O. oo - that bounces about. FIDO. a weather balloon. oo

  • @sitluxetluxfuit4481
    @sitluxetluxfuit4481 5 лет назад +4

    Why didn't you start ep 1. The intro also is extremely worthy of analysis . I guess it's to early to commant. I loved the prisoner can't wait to see what you come with Thomas.

  • @tonylauria8496
    @tonylauria8496 3 месяца назад

    The entire premise is given to us at the very beginning of episode one in the opening dialog but we all missed it.
    The Prisoner: "Who is number one?"
    Number two: "You are, number six."
    Go listen to it again.
    This is the most brilliant TV show of all time, never to be surpassed.

    • @DarkSideofSynth
      @DarkSideofSynth 2 месяца назад

      There is comma, never has been, never will be.

  • @philmitchell3337
    @philmitchell3337 2 месяца назад

    Code 200.

  • @johnroberts7170
    @johnroberts7170 4 года назад +2

    You are so wrong. This episode was devastating in showing how THE VILLAGE could let you escape and bring you back at will.
    MANY HAPPY RETURNS, indeed.

  • @scottishrestorian1999
    @scottishrestorian1999 5 лет назад

    A thought in 58 to be born in 60,and 6 by 66 well now epi 7..i rang the germans bell...a time when Jan is Ian...le truth certs @17..Ce Ur La Te aR...No woman no Cry.

  • @philmitchell3337
    @philmitchell3337 2 месяца назад

    Code 2467. Only adult gurly girls. Thats control.

  • @bvarsho1
    @bvarsho1 5 месяцев назад

    Who is No. 1?
    You are, No. 6.

  • @Yousa3eed
    @Yousa3eed 4 года назад +1

    Ops it looks like me

  • @ateveenstra5361
    @ateveenstra5361 5 лет назад +2

    The village looks like Portmeirion

  • @Element-oe8hn
    @Element-oe8hn Год назад

    Butterworth and Smith rather than Butterwort and Schmidt. In the interview to which you refer, Patrick McGoohan stated that No.1 was the alter ego of No.6. This makes far more sense than the misquote that he said "the Self", since the Self in Jungian psychology includes all aspects of consciousness and the unconscious, giving the false answer that No.1 was No.1 and No.6, which would have been meaningless, had he said it.

    • @paultimson6674
      @paultimson6674 Год назад +1

      Five is Grace, six is man, seven is Perfection, God, 8 is a new beginning. Number six is a man, a prisoner on earth with Satan. Number two. Satan is there to test the man. To make him choose a side. whose side are you on? he asks who number one is? the answer is GOD. is Christ. But he does not know this? He imagines HE IS NUMBER ONE. His ego rejects God and he places himself there. He rips off a black and white mask? and sees a monkey - evolution. a lie, he rips off that mask, sees himself as a lunatic. He chases himself, he battles himself. He is now a INDIVIDUAL and all his inquisitors salute him? This is exactly what they wanted. Someone to be above God. an individual. another anti christ. He is NUMBER ONE. He now escapes to the outside world. with Number two who is released? Satan is free too. He goes to his house and the door automatically opens. be seeing you? he salutes with the 666 okay signal. up at his eye? freemason signal.
      the all seeing eye.
      the village is not run by any one nation. who's side are you on? the world or God's side. He is a spy who has lost his way. He is debating why he kills? why he is working for his own side? the morals of what he did as Danger Man? why did you resign? why give up?
      He is looking elsewhere when they step in to TEST HIM. He wants out of the rat race.
      the chequered floors. the masked balls. who is in charge and who is a prisoner? who can you TRUST? He points out the prisoners are meek? while the warders are arrogant. He is arrogant. So the other prisoners instinctively know he is not one of them. And this is borne out by the last episode. He says he is number one. Not God. He has lost in the last episode. Not won. He is still a prisoner.

  • @CynicalBastard
    @CynicalBastard 5 лет назад

    Very Platonic of them.

  • @gladbutterfly
    @gladbutterfly 5 лет назад +1

    Too much review of the events of the episode, not enough analysis. Very thin stew.

    • @gladbutterfly
      @gladbutterfly 5 лет назад

      bj wood Sure, but satisfying analysis would examine the story in more detail. I have no problem with what analysis was made, just that it was not thoroughgoing. A long trip through a familiar plot without any interpretation along the way is boring.

    • @gladbutterfly
      @gladbutterfly 5 лет назад

      bj wood Perhaps, but I have no problem with the video being longer if it’s got more substance. It would need more planning to make the analysis work into the plot summary. It’s doable.

    • @gladbutterfly
      @gladbutterfly 5 лет назад

      bj wood Sure, but that never stops commentators;)

  • @barbaras2669
    @barbaras2669 3 месяца назад

    This is stupid. There's no occult analysis. He simply is telling you what you can see for yourself. This might be useful if you can't see otherwise it's a waste of time.