This has to be the best intro ever to a TV series.
@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296
Ай бұрын
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!"
@cologne2792
10 ай бұрын
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.
@markossmith8786
6 ай бұрын
@@altern8tive ...the plot thickens
@JeffreyTappan-bb8rr
2 ай бұрын
Parking pass
@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb
2 ай бұрын
i’m standing outside his flat on Buckingham place watching this on my phone
@VickersDoorter
Ай бұрын
@@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb Freak ;-)
@Cragsidebaz
Ай бұрын
Yeh, but he parked on a yellow line 😂
@Comfortzone99
Ай бұрын
The door with 'way out' on sets up the whole series.
@apl175
2 күн бұрын
It's an often used phrase in the UK to indicate the exit.
@peterwallwork4778
Жыл бұрын
Still looks good enough to be shown on tv theses days probably better than most of the rubbish that’s on now and to think this was in the 60s .
@markossmith8786
6 ай бұрын
Not that many people would ‘get’ it
@user-ev4rp3qb6x
2 ай бұрын
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 ………
@kevinduffy80
Ай бұрын
Many a true word.....
@paultrought267
22 күн бұрын
You could always say those words. But western society made sure it was a mockery of a statement.
@user-ev4rp3qb6x
22 күн бұрын
@@paultrought267 For sure , but I’m not a number and I am a free man ………
@bertiewooster3326
2 ай бұрын
Lovely clean uncluttered London..............
@risiblecomestible3319
Ай бұрын
with roads you could actually consider driving on
@foxyjazzbopper
18 күн бұрын
Be seeing you… excellent series and one of the best opening sequences ever
@mrtheo7680
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic intro
@paulfalconer3446
2 ай бұрын
One of my favourite programs of all time
@lesleyhubble2976
Жыл бұрын
He only wanted that holiday and pay rise they owed him 😂
@stephenspence1192
Жыл бұрын
I am afraid he was on a zero hours contract.
@carolebarker2195
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenspence1192 He would never have put up with that!
@christopherquinn5899
Жыл бұрын
He got the holiday, but not the pay rise.
@user-lx9tl3lc5f
7 ай бұрын
Yes, it was a matter of conscience.
@joannelawrence6913
2 жыл бұрын
RIP Mr McGoohan.
@KevinMurphy-kk6yz
2 ай бұрын
“Be seeing you…”
@growlerthe2nd712
Ай бұрын
@@KevinMurphy-kk6yz👌👁️🇬🇧
@michaelwhalen2442
11 күн бұрын
Edward the First, Longshanks...
@jamesshielssoberlife.3701
Жыл бұрын
Be seeing you!
@leighsaunderson9203
Жыл бұрын
"err,, only in colour sir..." "Much more expensive.."
@tattyshoesshigure5731
Жыл бұрын
Love this great intro! For many years I worked at ITN & frequently did OB’s from Abingdon Green opposite Parliament. Our video / audio connection box was fixed to the railings just above the ramp McGoohan drives down before delivering his resignation, & this sequence would always play out in my head as I connected the camera & comms while gazing down at the ramp… possibly one reason I occasionally connected the outgoing to the incoming!
@STEVEC66
5 ай бұрын
Seems Abingdon Green Car park is due to close now.
@tattyshoesshigure5731
5 ай бұрын
@@STEVEC66 that’s interesting to hear. They had a lot of trouble with water ingress several years back which was a mammoth task to repair. Basically the whole green had to be dug up & waterproof membranes + bitumen laid down before the green was re-turfed & re-paved.
@Rivenworld
Жыл бұрын
Great to see this again, slightly overspeed compared to the original sound track though.
@glpilpi6209
Жыл бұрын
I had it in one of my playlists for many years . There aren't any opening titles but I couldn't play it anymore because You Tube said it wasn't able to be viewed in the UK !!. This may account for the faster speed , it gets past the copyright algorithm .
@stevedonoghue1868
Ай бұрын
Ah - the days when you could actually drive in London! The Prisoner - strange but somehow very compelling!
@Chef1965
Жыл бұрын
Port Merion is the Mecca for this series The Prisoner Based in North Wales Amazing place
@carolebarker2195
Жыл бұрын
Yes it is! Been there a few times.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
Жыл бұрын
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis got fed up over the whole thing.
@carolebarker2195
Жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I can believe it!
@fodiladjila2853
11 ай бұрын
Il est beau, un génie ❤🙏
@user-xd7jl1ku7c
20 күн бұрын
Great show legend great actor Patrick rip he was great in ice station zebra and brave heart
@jon6346
Ай бұрын
OMG they sent Rees Mogg after him
@PaulB-justme
2 ай бұрын
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! 😄
@DirtyDingusMcGee
2 ай бұрын
London looked beautiful back then compared to today.
@user-fp7rc6sp5t
5 ай бұрын
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! 🤔😜
@user-ev4rp3qb6x
2 ай бұрын
Still ahead of the times after nearly 57 years.
@r1273m
11 ай бұрын
I remember this series from the 1960's. I do wonder what ever happened to the two cars, the Lotus Seven and the Austin Princess Hearse. The registration, KAR 120 C is currently on a Caterham seven from 2001, no record of the Austin though.
@locutus155
3 ай бұрын
If I recall, the original Lotus 7 with the registration KAR 120C was sold off after the making of the title sequence. It then had to be re bought to complete sequences in the Episode "Fallout".
@hamoostaffat
2 ай бұрын
There were 3 used, the first one with the KAR plate still belongs to Caterham, the other 2 that just wore the plate for some shots I can't find, I read years ago one had been crashed on a track after being sold to a private buyer but I can't confirm it anywhere
@jackchapman6900
6 ай бұрын
Filing system at 1:28 is, in fairness, better than that on my Chromebook.
@OLDCHEMIST1
4 ай бұрын
Wonderful stuff! Remember this from when I was a child!
@80srenaissance67
4 ай бұрын
Britain...what the hell happened ??
@hamoostaffat
2 ай бұрын
The prisoners stopped fighting back
@ClivePotts-ns5hd
2 ай бұрын
I agree...
@VickersDoorter
Ай бұрын
Windrush, Dr Beeching, Idi Amin kicking out the Asians and town planners destroying perfectly good town centres.
@growlerthe2nd712
Ай бұрын
Brexit 😂
@80srenaissance67
Ай бұрын
@@growlerthe2nd712 but we weren't part of Europe when the Prisoner was made ? 🤷
@ianbousfield1962
3 ай бұрын
Timeless and brilliant 👌
@highwindsclarke2685
27 күн бұрын
The man behind the desk is George Markstein.
@steveperryman8102
2 күн бұрын
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
@howardbeatman2820
2 ай бұрын
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.
@reginabrotzki5478
11 ай бұрын
Unvergessen ❤
@staypress
5 ай бұрын
seemed to be more footage on this than when the serious started.
@sonnyirish3678
4 ай бұрын
How right they were in 1967.
@rickrivethead
Жыл бұрын
They did a renewed version of this in the 2000s. Absolutely no where near as good as the original!, what was the point??!!
@grahambell4298
8 ай бұрын
Sounds like your typical modern remake.
@winsomehax
2 ай бұрын
01:31 - I aspire to get out of a car as cool and smoothly as that. Bucket list stuff.
@kevinduffy80
Ай бұрын
No traffic in central London. Heaven
@tonymeck-lj8rv
29 күн бұрын
i thought that video meant prisoner cell block h aussie australian television tv series
@theoconstantinou2839
Жыл бұрын
I’m Not a Pronoun I’m a free man. 😉👌 Be seeing you
@christopherquinn5899
Жыл бұрын
I wish I had thought of that.
@TacomaRodeo4
2 ай бұрын
I always wondered how a secret agent could be so oblivious to a hearse that is nefariously shadowing his movements.
@Ytsssss364
11 ай бұрын
really important now. I think Patrick McGoohan was on the spectrum - or might have been Bipolar. A mad genius. Despite the misgivings cited re: Lew Grade, have to say it was amazing he took a chance like that on McGoohan - up to a point - cannot believe the drink-driving charge meant McGoohan had to bicycle to the studio for a time, etc. He seemed devoted, protective of his wife and daughters. Love the stories of him slumming it in L.A. during the 70's while Ms. McGoohan cleaned up as a realtor! Would a staunch Catholic belief really predicate say kissing women on screen? Mel Gibson is not a devout Catholic? It's wrong to speculate and I'm really not trying to stir the pot - it really doesn't matter - McGoohan was a creative force who had a singular vision who blended intelligent art with "meaning" and having "a message" with "subtext." Like Kubrick who had to ultimately pull "A Clockwork Orange" from the British market for a time due to the ensuing uproar, I don't think McGoohan fully anticipated the strong reaction after the final episode "Fall Out" that would basically force him and the family into exile to "on the other side of the pond" as they would say. I wish say Rafferty were more readily available for viewing. I have no illusion that McGoohan didn't expect a backlash of some sort to Fall Out - kudos to him for sticking to his guns, and not selling out. He'd rather bear the brunt of the Fall Out - than be stamped, numbered, indexed... as a "Sell out" It was the crazy late 60's, after all. Magic. Lightning in a Bottle. Not possible otherwise.
@VickersDoorter
Ай бұрын
Good old 15 frames per second.
@philipbonner6486
2 ай бұрын
Be seeing you.
@JohnRadford-iy7db
18 күн бұрын
The uk is the village
@peterhagan8454
8 ай бұрын
i do that every day, what country, what place and what year is it yaaaaahggg
@andreedowns4561
11 ай бұрын
FOR GOOD .....WHY ...
@peterhagan8454
8 ай бұрын
you know why cruise reinvented mission impossible, you can not better the prisoner series
@user-uv8cn1gk7n
Ай бұрын
小山田さん、良かったピッタリ
@basedchungus
9 ай бұрын
0:44
@planetofthegael
Жыл бұрын
Good County Leitrim man Patrick McGoohan. Son of Eire.
@Psmith-ek5hq
Жыл бұрын
Born in New York City.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
Жыл бұрын
Considered for James Bond, but he didn’t approve of the character. So he created his own.
@antonioallen1763
3 ай бұрын
This is an INTENSE scene. Iconic. Once in the "secret agency" there is NO WAY OUT.
@VijaySuryaAditya
2 ай бұрын
Show!
@peterhagan8454
8 ай бұрын
your in wales love
@tonyrobinson362
11 ай бұрын
Who is No1? You are No6!
@raffaeledigiusto2081
3 ай бұрын
💙
@andycuthbert2763
Ай бұрын
Back when the UK was great-not like the 2024 disaster😡
@kevinsargeant9171
11 ай бұрын
BCNU ......
@ZER0--
2 ай бұрын
Whose number one. Not, who's number one.
@peterhagan8454
8 ай бұрын
specifically not too near rhyll but adiquitly far away from
@goldgeologist5320
2 ай бұрын
What type of car was he driving?
@Creighton-Jones
2 ай бұрын
Lotus Seven
@bertram-raven
Жыл бұрын
"60s" not "60's"
@nineteen8486
Жыл бұрын
Plank
@AnthonyBrown12324
2 ай бұрын
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 .
@steveperryman8102
2 күн бұрын
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
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