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> OT: Did you grow up watching the show "The Prisoner"?, because I'm not a snob :)
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post Aug 20 2009, 11:29 PM
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OK, so I get asked all the time about my username "number6." ("All the time" being 3 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )

It's a reference to the above-named TV series. The main character was No.6.

A few friends have thought that I was bragging about owning a /6. Being that this is a 914 forum, I should've anticipated that, but the connection with 914-6 never crossed my mind. Well, plus, at the time my account was created, I hadn't bought the new car.

Do you all remember the show? Good stuff, huh?!

I feel No. 2 over my shoulders...

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post Aug 20 2009, 11:34 PM
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QUOTE(number6 @ Aug 20 2009, 10:29 PM) *

OK, so I get asked all the time about my user name "number6." ("All the time" being 3 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

It's a reference to the above-named TV series. The main character was No.6.

A few friends have thought that I was bragging about owning a /6. Being that this is a 914 forum, I should've anticipated that, but the connection with 914-6 never crossed my mind. Well, plus, at the time my account was created, I hadn't bought the new car.

Do you all remember the the show? Good stuff, huh?!

I feel No. 2 over my shoulders...

-number6

Wait a minute #6.. shouldn't you be on the Lotus forum? Cool show with an untra cool Partick McGuan(sp). Almost bougt a Super 7 but rememberd the "prince of Darkness" Lucas.
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post Aug 20 2009, 11:35 PM
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AMC is doing a remake
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/
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post Aug 20 2009, 11:48 PM
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QUOTE(Zundfolge @ Aug 20 2009, 10:35 PM) *

AMC is doing a remake
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/


You just made my night!

"Who is Number 1?"
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post Aug 20 2009, 11:51 PM
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QUOTE(Strudelwagon @ Aug 20 2009, 10:34 PM) *

Wait a minute #6.. shouldn't you be on the Lotus forum? Cool show with an untra cool Partick McGuan(sp). Almost bougt a Super 7 but rememberd the "prince of Darkness" Lucas.
SW


This number 6 never really liked the look of that Lotus. I know, coming from someone who thinks 914s are good looking... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

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post Aug 21 2009, 01:22 AM
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Watch out for Rover! Sylvie and I have wanted to build a Lotus 7 ever since buying the Prisoner Series on DVD (highly recommended). Best ever! Ending is kRaZy, but it works somehow.
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post Aug 21 2009, 01:44 AM
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QUOTE(RoadGlue @ Aug 21 2009, 12:22 AM) *

Watch out for Rover! Sylvie and I have wanted to build a Lotus 7 ever since buying the Prisoner Series on DVD (highly recommended). Best ever! Ending is kRaZy, but it works somehow.


Rover - of course! The soundtrack was perfect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY


I was watching it in syndication (1968 was a little before my time) and they stopped before broadcasting the final episodes! So, to everyone, please, no ending spoilers! Thank you. Can't wait to get my DVD set.
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post Aug 21 2009, 01:49 AM
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QUOTE(number6 @ Aug 20 2009, 11:44 PM) *

before broadcasting the final episodes! So, to everyone, please, no ending spoilers!


Don't worry - I don't think there's a single person here that could summarize, in writing, how the series ended. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Aug 21 2009, 06:00 AM
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QUOTE(number6 @ Aug 21 2009, 01:48 AM) *

"Who is Number 1?"


"You are Number Six!"

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post Aug 21 2009, 06:08 AM
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Vague memories of the show.

But I saw a Volvo 1800 convertible just the other day. Wasn't that "The Saint?" Right now the actor's name escapes me, but at the end of the intro, the screen reads, "Roger Moore in.." as he pulls up in the car and the front license plate appears under the "in"... KAR 1200.
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post Aug 21 2009, 06:22 AM
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Yes, Roger Moore played The Saint, great series. I have the Prisoner on DVD. I had vaguely remembered it from watching it on TV in the late 60s. It's a bit corny by today's standards, still a classic. Patrick McGoohan, number 6 and creator of the show, passed away this past January.


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Vague memories of the show.

But I saw a Volvo 1800 convertible just the other day. Wasn't that "The Saint?" Right now the actor's name escapes me, but at the end of the intro, the screen reads, "Roger Moore in.." as he pulls up in the car and the front license plate appears under the "in"... KAR 1200.
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post Aug 21 2009, 06:34 AM
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QUOTE(abbott295 @ Aug 21 2009, 08:08 AM) *

But I saw a Volvo 1800 convertible just the other day. Wasn't that "The Saint?"


"The Saint" indeed drove a Volvo 1800 coupe. The car was at the Carlisle Import / Kit / Replicar show a couple of years ago. Sir Roger wasn't there as he probably had something else going on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

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post Aug 21 2009, 07:11 AM
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QUOTE(zymurgist @ Aug 21 2009, 08:00 AM) *

QUOTE(number6 @ Aug 21 2009, 01:48 AM) *

"Who is Number 1?"


"You are Number Six!"

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The actual phrasing was:
"You are...........................Number six"
Based on the ending of the show there has been a lot of discussion on that long pause.
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post Aug 21 2009, 01:11 PM
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What do you want

Information

You won't get it

By hook or by crook we will..
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post Aug 21 2009, 01:31 PM
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QUOTE(veltror @ Aug 21 2009, 12:11 PM) *

What do you want

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You won't get it

By hook or by crook we will..


You just summed up why the show left such an impression on me.
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post Aug 21 2009, 01:35 PM
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Loved the show. Truly brilliant. Ending was...well...different...

Count me in the category that was disappointed in the ending.

In college we arranged a showing of one episode each week. Room was packed every time.

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post Aug 21 2009, 03:05 PM
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That's funny because I just (re)watched the first episode yesterday ... I own all the series on VHS. I like it very much. When I was young I found this white ball very scary.
I also found out how the filming and the editing is so modern. Lots of short shots with weird angles. And the music is just awesome.
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post Aug 21 2009, 04:20 PM
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QUOTE(number6 @ Aug 20 2009, 10:29 PM) *

Do you all remember the show?
That would be telling...
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Didn't see the show as a kid when it first aired, but back in the 90's our local (SF Bay Area) public TV station aired the series. Really loved it, although I was bitterly disappointed at the incomprehensible ending.

BTW, some trivia for you:
Do you remember that surveillance "eye" thing on the show? It was hanging in the control room, some sort of all-seeing device which monitored the prisoners/ characters. Also seen at the 2:44 mark of this intro. I'm not sure of its specific origin but, there are (or, were, as of 1997 when I visited) a pair of them in the central train station in Vienna: About halfway up a pair of escalators, they are hanging opposite the two escalators facing each other. The eye is a tv screen, and it changes appearance periodically in some sort of response to the other one. Some sort of public art - not sure if they were created before the Prisoner, or perhaps as a result of it. (And alas my internet search skills have failed to come up with more..)

anyway there's your trivia fact of the day -

cheers,
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post Aug 21 2009, 10:37 PM
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Was Number 6 really Number 1?

Ever since I first saw the show, I wanted a Lotus 7. Many, many years ago I actually would fit in one!

Now we can start on Emma Peel's Elan!
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post Aug 21 2009, 11:49 PM
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How about the Iron Maiden song, The Prisoner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkBd3FD1GRY...PL&index=22
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