At 3:59 we are shown a letter-to-the-editor or something, asking about the bicycle logo, and a short and useless reply from the studio. But look at who wrote the letter in the first place...
Patrick McGoohan explained in an interview what the series was all about man trying to escape from himself, but no matter how much he runs away, that person cannot escape. In the final episode he comes face to face with himself as No.1, and at the end of the episode the sequence of events with him going to resign begin all over again.
Ah, I LOVE Rocky and Bullwinkle! Here's some trivia... Boris' last name was "Badinoff." That was a pun on "Boris Godunov," the opera by Mussorgsky about the Tsar with that name. Rocky's last name was "Manninoff," a pun on the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
So the thunder as Leo McKern is entering the building was accidental? Here I thought the whole time it was sort of a set up statement of Him entering his old place of work to get to the bottom of everything or something like that! It was just a sound editing mistake nobody fixed..Ha!
Good authors often remark that the characters in their novels take on independent lives of their own, and musicians sometimes say their music composes itself. How does this work? I don't know...there are theories. But life if strange. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
It was revealed if you look closely. Number 6 IS number 1. Or he will be if they can find out why he left. Its subtle but its there.Same with the bicycle. Wheels within wheels. The little wheel is the big wheel or I should say the little wheel drives the big wheel.
This repeats the last few minutes of part two of the continuity episode, which is unnecessary. Otherwise, all of these documentaries are fantastic. Thanks for posting them.
Yes. And I can't say, for sure, if it was intentional, coincidence (though I don't really believe in coincidences), or a bubbling up from the collective unconscious. But it is what it is. And of course it lacked the intonation: that would have been too obvious---that would have been "telling." There IS a bit of an emphasis on "You," however.
I'm not so sure McGoohan (who excelled ONLY at math and boxing before dropping out of college) a big man, would allow himself to be be beaten up by "angry viewers." In a much more recent documentary (though this short piece is excellent) McGoohan's daughter says only Pat McGoohan was perhaps thinking that he should be careful in the streets after Fall Out was broadcast. The other story I have heard about fallout from folks on the set; writers, cameramen, etc., is that McGoohan had lost interest and came up with a crummy episode and thought it was weak. I actually enjoy Fall Out for most part - but can see why many do not.
That is something that never occurred to me. I remember seeing the re-runs as I was not quite born when it was first shown. I liked the show, but did not really understand too much. And, as far as I can remember, we never really find out why he resigned (or did we and I missed it ?)
Other than the question of who is #1 ? | I Questioned the idea of was he really set Free ? I pondered the thought in the final few minutes of the last episode. That perhaps he was being brought back to a larger world prison place. That chould easily have been any where on the planet earth ?
In my opinion number 6 had a breakdown in the previous episode and everything was a dream. What happened to 6 he stayed and lived in a village with nobody there still protecting his secrets. A novel should have been written on this or with a different aftermath. Now we just speculate.
Haha, always wondered about that final thunderclap, how cool to have it explained in full...
At 3:59 we are shown a letter-to-the-editor or something, asking about the bicycle logo, and a short and useless reply from the studio. But look at who wrote the letter in the first place...
HAHA WHAT
Patrick McGoohan explained in an interview what the series was all about man trying to escape from himself, but no matter how much he runs away, that person cannot escape. In the final episode he comes face to face with himself as No.1, and at the end of the episode the sequence of events with him going to resign begin all over again.
Ah, I LOVE Rocky and Bullwinkle! Here's some trivia... Boris' last name was "Badinoff." That was a pun on "Boris Godunov," the opera by Mussorgsky about the Tsar with that name. Rocky's last name was "Manninoff," a pun on the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
So the thunder as Leo McKern is entering the building was accidental? Here I thought the whole time it was sort of a set up statement of Him entering his old place of work to get to the bottom of everything or something like that!
It was just a sound editing mistake nobody fixed..Ha!
Good authors often remark that the characters in their novels take on independent lives of their own, and musicians sometimes say their music composes itself. How does this work? I don't know...there are theories. But life if strange. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
It was revealed if you look closely. Number 6 IS number 1. Or he will be if they can find out why he left. Its subtle but its there.Same with the bicycle. Wheels within wheels. The little wheel is the big wheel or I should say the little wheel drives the big wheel.
This repeats the last few minutes of part two of the continuity episode, which is unnecessary. Otherwise, all of these documentaries are fantastic. Thanks for posting them.
Yes. And I can't say, for sure, if it was intentional, coincidence (though I don't really believe in coincidences), or a bubbling up from the collective unconscious. But it is what it is. And of course it lacked the intonation: that would have been too obvious---that would have been "telling." There IS a bit of an emphasis on "You," however.
@dsitjamie doubt it somehow old son...remember this was shown on ITV back in 1967.....quite a few years before the Amiga came out
thats brilliant
I'm not so sure McGoohan (who excelled ONLY at math and boxing before dropping out of college) a big man, would allow himself to be be beaten up by "angry viewers."
In a much more recent documentary (though this short piece is excellent) McGoohan's daughter says only Pat McGoohan was perhaps thinking that he should be careful in the streets after Fall Out was broadcast.
The other story I have heard about fallout from folks on the set; writers, cameramen, etc., is that McGoohan had lost interest and came up with a crummy episode and thought it was weak.
I actually enjoy Fall Out for most part - but can see why many do not.
Isn't one of the clues is his home address where he is kidnapped from. No.1 Buckingham Place? So he has No.1 on his door.
At the beginning of each episode we were told who Number One was:
"Who is Number One?" "You are Number Six!"
Add a comma: "You are, Number Six!"
Clyde Wary DID NOT THINK OF THAT HOW ABOUT SECRET AGENT IN THAT SONG WE ARE GIVING YOU A NUMBER AND TAKING AWAY YOUR NAME
That is something that never occurred to me. I remember seeing the re-runs as I was not quite born when it was first shown. I liked the show, but did not really understand too much. And, as far as I can remember, we never really find out why he resigned (or did we and I missed it ?)
Other than the question of who is #1 ? | I Questioned the idea of was he really set Free ? I pondered the thought in the final few minutes of the last episode. That perhaps he was being brought back to a larger world prison place. That chould easily have been any where on the planet earth ?
Wasn't that foreshadowed in an earlier
Episode? Leo McKern & The Prisoner talk about sides?
@dsitjamie It definitely is an Amiga! Amiga 1000 I think
It's a 2000.
In my opinion number 6 had a breakdown in the previous episode and everything was a dream. What happened to 6 he stayed and lived in a village with nobody there still protecting his secrets. A novel should have been written on this or with a different aftermath. Now we just speculate.
narrr i belive your mistaken on that old son....