In the age of Google and Facebook, it is very important to see The Prisoner. (Not the crap remake, but the original).

I adore Patrick M."Prisoner".A brilliant piece of work!I would have loved to meet up with the man and had discourse with him.He was truly ahead of his time. An extra ordinary man in many ways.I hope he has found peace in the ethers or wherever he may be ."The Prisoner ", is forever on point, especially today.

I saw this in the 80s when i was young, since then i grew to understand what was going on, pretty much :) it taught me much about society etc. a work of genius. I learned very young what the word 'allegory' meant - after i saw an interview with Pat and he said that's what it was. Brilliant.

Fall Out is perhaps the most accurate depiction of a drug experience ever composed by a man who never took LSD or smoked pot in his life. [McGoohan drank hard liquor and smoked tobacco, but that's it.] Acid's 'ego death' experience is replicated in 6's rejecting the part of himself that was Number 1. 6 shoots his own id into space, quite literally. It's my belief that 6 was driven mad at the end of the previous ep, and Fall Out is just his insane hallucination. Speedwritten burn-out genius.

This final episode without an ending in a way, allows you to re watch the entire series over and over again looking for theories and clues. An explanation ending would have answered it all and deprived the viewers their involvement in the series. There is no other TV experience like it the first time you see Fall Out. Mine was in 1990.

@bederrick There are clues scattered around the series that 6 is 1. As you say, even the opening spiel contains a huge clue: "Who is Number 1?" can be read as "You are, Number 6". Crafty, eh? Do Not Foresake Me Oh My Darling contains the line: "It will all be one in the end." 6's home in London is Number 1 Buckingham Place, and then there's 'Six of one, half a dozen of the other' in Arrival.

It is by far the greatest sci-fi ever on the small screen, I do feel like the final episode jumped the shark a little.

This really underscores McGoohan's later comments about #1 being a reference to "oneself". The fact that he took an abstract approach of presenting this concept to the viewing public is both beautiful and frustrating.

I thought the last episode was genius. It made the series into a metaphor about life and individuality too me. It ends with the gate closing with no human help, showing how he's still not free even though he thinks he escapes.

you can never be free from your own mind

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The President's speech shouldn't have been cut, it adds an answer somewhat to the entire series, McGoohan's character symbolizing the revolution

@ProjectFlashlight612 It's not that abstract. Patrick McGoohan said on television in the 1980's that he had ulcers from fighting the system. (The prison world wants you to subjugate you and censor yourself, usurping your own spirit for its own ends as, in the end, Winston Smith loves Big Brother or as Number Six is Number One.) When the door opens automatically and the butler enters The Prisoner's home at the end, it means the whole world is governed or directed by the prison's wardens.

I loved it! It made more than half the sh*t on TV

Fifty-plus years hence from my viewing of the Stateside premiere this episode remains positively baffling...and yet it still incentivizes the uninitiated to view the entire series and long-time fans to return to it. This two-part explanation provides perhaps the clearest reason: "Concerteering" productions helmed by someone with "BIG ideas" who worked with talented professionals who so very desperately needed be told how he wanted things run. It's not the easiest environment for creative types to work in. Be amazed at the results!

That was mainly new to me, and well-received. Cheers!

No.6 is a clone of No.1. That’s why they could never mess with him and why they were so desperate to find out why he was so different from the original.

I love that on the mantle appears to be a bust of Napoleon during Kenneth Griffith's interview! I'm certain that's pure coincidence! I know he was supposed to be a different character, but had they filmed the copter scene when he escapes (he clearly does since they show the copters taking off) , it woulds have been a nice nod to have had Justine Lord be his pilot!

thank you we allways remember you 2013 january 13

at 6:30 when he is talking about big name directors, Kubrick is who he is talking about everything not shot on sight at The Village(Portmeirion), was shot on a sound stage next to filming of 2001.

Once Upon a Time was broadcast on 25th January 1968, Fall Out was broadcast on 1st February 1968 - how is that a gap of almost a year?

When he goes to his bosses door at the beginning credits it says "way out". Lots of meaning. Was resigning a way out. Nope. Still a prisoner no matter where he was. Then theres the other meaning. What was about to happen to the character was "way out!"

Well, I'm 60 years old and I was fan of the show since I was about 15. The intense machine gun fire fight with no blood,no gun powder smoke, & no shell casing appears ludicrous by today's standards according to millennials.

Hysteria took over the series and turned it upside down.

I didn't like the 2009 AMC / ITV remake of the Prisoner. Though the twist of the wife sleeping and dreaming was interesting. The original late 60s series was superior. Though it was a little bit before my time I did enjoy the reruns in the 80s when PBS stations in the US or perhaps one of our cable stations played reruns. I instantly became fascinated by the series. Patrick McGoohan was fantastic.

Very interesting!!!

Most of the time I hold McGoohan for a genius. Just some episodes of the Prisoner make me think he needed psychiatric help.

It appears that some of the guests have missed the boat ! Collateral Damage was inevitable, and I am sure Pat realized that when he wrote, directed, and acted in the series .The man was beautiful ,mentally and physically.

Of course the ending is a 'what could be' ,you have to figure it out for yourself. "My life is my own".

This is... a DREAMY party! Be seeing you. No. 122

This makes me think of the American Bohemian Grove when the world’s elite movers and shakers meet to monitor and control the world’s economies.

THe Twin Peaks finale almost rivals it

be seeing you

If it had been anyone other than Patrick M.....I'd say he was either on drugs or going through some sort of mental issues at the time of the later episodes and especially the final one......like those weird dream sequences on the original "Avengers:" TV series. 🥴

Does anyone know what the title of this entire behind the scenes feature this clip comes from is? If you do I would appreciate it if you could please let me know.

Is there anywhere one can buy the Steven Ricks /The Prisoner Investigated/ / /The Prisoner In-Depth/ programs first-hand on DVD these days?

FYI, its on Amazon as I just saw this episode yesterday

The end I remember he woke up to a abandoned town and left back to society. Almost like the birthday episode, when they let him think he escaped.

I want one of those jukeboxes.

Number ONE is the DWARF.....

The Prisoner is one of THE BEST TV series ever made. You'll find th@ most people - esp. here - would say the exact OPPOSITE about whatever (I take it ur talking about a video game?) U like.

When I watched several episodes, it reminded me of the Dr. Who episodes.

@macroyer1 Teaching hundreds if not millions of people deep and complex things about themselves, about the human nature, is a risky job :D A lot of them didn't understood what was behind the "number 1", they kept asking him who was the Great Evil one, they couldn't accept that most dangerous thing was themselves... that's why he moved away for a few months, to let these people forget about it and go back to their everyday lifes...

I didn't get it when I watched it as a teenager in about 1978, when it was repeated, but now I see...the occult symbolism, the hand sign, the penny farthing representing the all seeing eye...and the ending... Lucifer/Satan, living in us, rebelling against God, we think we're free, but we're imprisoned....

The main actor was 64 years old at the time. I think he did excellent work.

Why are people so confused about it? Not that cryptic.

I think McGoohan must have been doing a lot of acid around that time.

As a video editor I feel so terribly sorry for her. I certainly wouldn't have liked to work for Pat. Not the "nicest" boss you can have.

I always wondered why Number 2 got a shave and haircut in this episode.

Who are these people?

What is this from?

@ProjectFlashlight612 sorry i accidentally thumbed down :( but great point!

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Well that told me fuck all really. Is there a part 2 of this?

fallout

lol at nearly killed himself KILLED HIMSELF

so basically mcgoohan was insane

That awkward moment when you don't know how to end a TV series so just write any old shit for the last episode.

The last episode Fall Out must have been written under the influence of LSD or some similar shit as you could not think that one one up without the help of a heavy mind bending drug

It was a huge mistake making the last episode abstract. Most people interpreted all of the previous episodes literally. Making the last episode abstract basically nullified the entire series. All the time and emotional investment people put into the show was negated with it. It's like ending a TV series by saying, "it was all a dream". You can't do that without upsetting a lot of people.

First, wh@ does oil have 2 do w/ ths - a television series?!?! 2Nd, ur ... 'statement,' about 'insecure people...' Huh?!?! If u haven't already, u need a head doctor (most people - like u - who obviously have some bit of organic problems usually believe it's THEY THEMSELVES who r 'fine,' & the 'others' - who tell them otherwise - r the ones w/ a 'problem.'

wow i was expecting the fallout nv or fallout 3 game.........but i get this crap!