He was strutting so fast down that hallway that he passed Maxwell Smart.

From what I read, the reason they didn't state it was John Drake, was to avoid having to pay royalties to the creator of Danger Man/Secret Agent. It would seem that it was indeed John Drake. I can't overstate how great this series was, certainly one of my favorites of all time.

McGoohan and McKern drove each other literally, insane filming this episode. Crews came to the studio to watch in fascinated horror, as they drove each other mad....both having to take time off from filming and get treatment. The show is....Amazing. Nothing been made like it since and never will be again...hell, what actor today...would Risk their Samity for a Role?

"Who is Number One?" "You are, Number Six." We never noticed the comma which made all the difference.

I always thought it was very effective to have crashes of thunder instead of dialog when he resigned.

Greatest serie, greatest Patrick McGoohan. Unforgettable

McGoohan's sport jacket/button down shirt at the beginning is timeless, he could out of 1967 today and fit right in.

Awesome series. Not only do they take their sweet time setting the scene with this intro, but they rely a lot on the implied rather than the implicit to convey meaning. Let the imagination of the viewer do some of the work. So very much unlike today’s television. Who today would manage to convey menace and terror through a big floaty ball, for instance?

This was a timeless show, correction still is! Patrick McGoohan was a charasmatic actor who I loved his combination of cerebral and action style. The Prisoner was his brain child. Superb show. I originally watched this show as a kid in the 70's on channel 16 (PBS still is awesome.).

Still ahead of its time...and always will be.

I've been to that car park in london.... couldn't believe it when I recognised the arrows on the ground... loved it

Well ahead of it's time ' The Prisoner ' more relevant now than it ever was.

The late great British actor Patrick Maghan wish he could have been alive to make his dream of a Prisoner movie

There’s a great interview with Patrick McGoohan where he said that after the final episode of The Prisoner - Fall Out - aired, he couldn’t show his face in England for a time, because the audience hated the surreal ending. He said they felt cheated. I have to admit, they had a point. Still, I’d call it one of the Top 10 TV series of all time.

Note that when the prisoner slaps his resignation letter on the desk chap sitting at the desk is Sir Lew Grade head of the production company that put up the money for the series.

In case anyone was wondering who #1 was, it was #6 all along (inside joke). When you see Patrick McGoohan enter #6's flat in London at the 1:45 mark, the actual address of the building where it was filmed is #1 Buckingham Place, London. You don't see the number until the last episode when Angelo Muscat, who played #1's butler, walks into the building with the automatic door opening and closing.

The most important lesson learned here is that if you are going to resign from being a spy, pack your bags first, resign and leave the country.

brilliant!i bought a t shirt from no.6 house after visiting "the village"in the 90s

The Lotus Seven sets the pace, "I am not a number", as a Lotus Seven owner in 1970 I can go along with that.

I love the series and the music. Great series.

The 'Way Out' is the way I walk into places

My God, this series is more relevant today than ever!

Thanks for the reminder, Loved the show, I had completely forgotten it...

I love how they feature the dispensation of the parking ticket.

Thanks soooo much for posting... I have replayed this theme 100's of times!

Theme by Ron Grainer. Who created the theme for some other programme about a Doctor who... well, never mind. I was terribly disappointed that the recent Flight Simulator 2020 does not have detailed ground scenery for Portmeirion, so no re-creation of those glorious helicopter shots. What - doesn't _everyone_ try to fly that flight right after getting the sim working?

Add a comma and reveal the Secret: "Who is Number One?" "You are, Number Six."

Thanks for posting this Doc.

The ultimate cautionary tale about selling one's soul to the state.

6:03 is my favourite part. "I, I, I!"

Off to Portmerion next weekend!

Brilliant series.

this above 8 minute montage is the Best summary of the series I have ever seen. Thank you producer

They can track your every move and communication. The only thing they don't have is an autonomous death bubble... but that's not far off I imagine.

Dude finally an opening title with great quality and it goes all the way! :D

For the first time I’ve just noticed he drove UNDER the barrier at the car park ! Also, the hearse was waiting as he came out of the car park. Then it was in front of him !

When i watched this as a kid as re runs in the 1970's i always thought he was No.1. I would have had a mirror behind a door as a final reveal.

You cannot beat 'the system' without losing your mind

Patrick McGoohan born in the USA on March 19 1928.

Timeless

you are number 1! my next door neighbour was the editor :) 7:16

Nice to see I wasn't just imagining how weird, in my decades old memories, this show was. I would love to see some of this show again. I can't see the name Leo McKern without hearing the word "Kaili" in my head.

The answer to the whole series was in the first couple of minutes of the opening sequence....."Who is Number One ?"......"You are Number 6 !" - That was his answer - "YOU are, number 6" easy when you've watched the whole thing !

Love that car!

In 1967 this got us all thinking. In 2019 no-one would bother. Reality TV & limited attention spans would ensure no one would watch beyond the opening credits - too much thinking involved.

Rover scared the hell out of me as a kid.

Gosh that was quick work by MI5 to have the Rolls at the exit as No. 6 drove out of his resignation at head office. Further No.6 drove ahead of the Rolls but later was behind. A great imaginative opening gambit to what was to become a chess challenge to keep up with the concept of human commodities in the making.......

McGoohan stated in a 1985 interview that Number 6 is not the same character as John Drake, adding that he had originally wanted another actor to portray the character. However, script editor George Markstein, who co-created the series with McGoohan, always claimed that Number 6 is John Drake. According to Markstein, he conceived The Prisoner as a sequel of Danger Man when McGoohan resigned from the role........ Personally, having watched both, and always been a huge McGoohan fan, I believe that making such a 'performance' over 'his' resignation, the 'Bond / secret agent style' kit-car, plus setting up 'The Village' to ascertain his reasons for quitting and his loyalty, I go with the 'Number 6 IS John Drake' theory....fits too well to be anything else !!

The way the music is used in rhythm with the images works better in the rest of the episodes. The rhythm doesn't match up as well in the first. It's not particularly noticeable until you've seen all the others and come back to the beginning - then something seems off-key.

I love the Brits. They have style...

Yes Leo Mckern had a breakdown doing this episode.

0:51--Patrick McGoohan looks downright scary in that shot!

You had to see this surreal tv when it first came out. You had to see western civilization before it became surreal and everything was a mic and a camera.

Now we live in a state worse than the prisoner. Be seeing you .

this series is 50 years old and many people remember watching in black and white televisions then and due to modern technology we can watch all over again and see how television was like back then i remember my first video back in 1982 and this shown and recorded it as there a selection of various programmes from various years been shown on ITV AT THAT TIME

LOL at the time we were all desperately trying to work out who Number one was yet ever episode they told us "who is number one " answer ( honestly ) "you are number 6"

"The Prisoner" first appeared in the United States on CBS in 1968 as a summer replacement for, of all things, Jackie Gleason. The show became quite popular, and CBS rebroadcast the entire series in the summer of 1969.

This is some amazing quality! Especially when I compare it to other uploads on KZfaq. Was this ripped from a DVD or something? Thanks again for the upload! Really enjoying it.

The following is a bit lengthy, but if you are a big time fan of the The Prisoner, and also like to read comics, look through the following: In the mid 80's, DC Comics released a "prestige format" (see: cardstock covers with more pages) 4 issue story that through a somewhat similar series of events, takes a female spy who suddenly resigns, then immediately goes to the Harbour, and boards a sailboat she owned so she could follow her dream, which was to sail all around the world. Some things occur, and eventually she wakes up on the beach right next to what's left of The Village. As she explores the town, sees a lot of damage & decay, some natural, some obviously done by physical force. Eventually, she encounters an older thin man with a beard, and is soon revealed that he is Number 6, and after the events of the final TV episode, went mad and just kind of lived on alone aimlessly wandering here & there. It's implied that The State tried so hard to bend him (to their will) that he simply broke. A bit later, she encounters the Number 2 played by Leo McKern, also older and begrizzled. He too had gone completely insane after being unable to get the truth out of Number 6. A bit later, Numbers 2 & 6 come face to face while she is present, and immediately start attacking each other. After the fight, she talks to Number 2, who basically says that after being repeatedly unable to get the info out of Number 6, he suddenly realized he no longer had any purpose, nor place in society. Every time the two numbers encounter each other, they start brawling, but now being old men, aren't really doing each other any harm. Number 2 relates to the woman that it's like that every single time they both encounter each other. I hope that's enough to pique your interest. I found a scene in first issue somewhat amusing- while the female ex-spy is exploring The Village, she encounters that short column that a bust of Caesar on it, only now, it has been partially damaged, enough so that a surveillance camera is visible inside the bust. The complete 4 part comic series which only saw aa limited single print run, can be somewhat difficult to find. The best place is probably Ebay, or major US comic book stores, such as Mid-City in New York, Mile High in Denver, who both have large online buying sites, and also atomicavenue dot com. If you can get a hold of it, it really is quite interesting. Throughout the issues, a number of things from the TV series that remained unanswered are explained and given a reason to here & there in the comics. Hope this helps!

The manufactured reality of the Village was also the premise for the simulated reality of the first Matrix film. That is why Guy Doleman (as Number Two) is seen on a television screen near the end of the film when Neo is attempting to escape Agent Smith.

Watching his driving in the opening scene, my attention was drawn by his right turn, made just as we in the US make the left turn! And he drives on the "wrong" side of the street by US standards. So much is British in this opening. And the phrase WAY OUT which they use instead of Exit. My friend and I visiting London in 1974 were amused by the phrase "Way Out" for Exit because in the US it meant absurd, or extreme, as in "That's way out!"

Extraño esta serie,muy buena,impresionante, lastima que ahora, no sé hagan tan magníficas

It was shown the United States too because I watched it as a boy. I'll always remember him being chased by that giant sphere.

I’d love to write and direct a movie adaptation of this.

Greatest show ever...

Actually, the first transmission was in Canada, the UK was few days behind.

A mystically sorrowful tale set to hauntingly simple and sad music that paints the very scenes on the screen of your own minds eye. To this very day, you wonder yet believe it to be true....

Patrick McGoohan, Sean Connery, Stanley Baker, Richard Burton, what a class of actors to come out of England after the war.

La serie es brillante, pero al final nunca supimos: 1. Para quien trabajaba. 2. Porquè renunciò. 3. Porquè y cuando fue creada "la villa". 4. Quien era quien en ese lugar. 5. A que gobierno respondìa Nº 2. 6. Donde quedaba realmente la villa. 7. Què pasò con los demàs prisioneros. Para mì hubiese sido mejor revelar que Nº 1 era en realidad una mega computadora. El final decepciona y mucho.

From the Golden Age of TV Themes

I am My Fan Still

Once you've seen this, there is no need to watch anything else ever again.

I took a double decker bus tour of London several years ago and the tour guide didn't know #6's house in London. I told him and I heard him use it on the next tour he guided..he wasn't very well read on his own culture!

A gloriously eccentric, nonsensical series - bit like Twin Peaks. My mate at school was in the Six Of One Appreciation Society.

Leo McKern: "Carl Bugenhagen" from The Omen (1976)

There is no ...”way out”...

Totally cool

As the Great One would say, "how sweet it is!"

I've never seen this show, but from what I understand the Prisoner never escaped in the final episode which really sucks what they need to do is give him that final chance to escape and make it a movie when if they gave to get a new actor to play number 6 I wanna see the Prisoner escape his prisoner and call it The Prisoner Escapes maybe we'll finally know what Number 6's real name is.

Without weapon, any Guy has the power to kill Its Enemy.

Have both 1 & 2 original soundtracks from this Icon series (from 976-CREOLEMAN).

Ya'll may enjoy Barbara Feldon(Agent 99, Get Smart - TV Series) debut in Man From Uncle - TV Series :"The Never Never Affair" >. And, did you know that Debbie Harry(Musician - "Blondie") was the original pic to sing For Your Eyes Only (Sung beautifully by Sheena Easton kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLZkq7ubvJ-bm6M.html )?

A series as old as me.

Wouldn't Magoohan had made a great 007? He's closer to Fleming's description than Sean Connery too.

Fall out is the last episode and it's crazy.

I v'e never seen the Prisoner, but for. what I heard the Prisoner never escaped his prison that really sucks why didn't they have him escape on the final episode riddle me that.

The Last Episode was Wild.

What the hell ever happened to "Rover"? Did it just sink into the sea? Perhaps the greatest visual McGuffin ever in a TV series! My own personal take-away is that the agent became a psychological prisoner in his own mind.....maybe all this happened in his own mind due to paranoia? But the show is fun because of all the implied themes. Like looking at a painting....what do YOU see?

For a spy he wasn't very good. If he was planning on disappearing he should have had his bags packed before he handed in his resignation.

Fantastic Lotus Seven.

The only problem I have with this is that surely he would have noticed he was being tailed.

we were double crossed.

I wonder if that cars registration is still out there somewhere

The reason why I bought myself a Lotus Super Seven, 8 years later.

Has anyone considered that the village is, in fact a prototype for the purposed 15 minute cities in the works ?? Complete with cameras every where and license plate readers !!! Guess they'll have those rovers patrolling the streets soon !!

Still a better love story than Twilight

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Is that John Drake's picture being stamped, filed and indexed?

A man is imprisoned for resigning from the thunder delivery business.

Was this show made for people on LSD in the 60's? I can't connect the dots....