Lovely clean uncluttered London..............

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 ………

This has to be the best intro ever to a TV series.

Ah - the days when you could actually drive in London! The Prisoner - strange but somehow very compelling!

The door with 'way out' on sets up the whole series.

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!"

Be seeing you… excellent series and one of the best opening sequences ever

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.

Fantastic intro

RIP Mr McGoohan.

He only wanted that holiday and pay rise they owed him 😂

One of my favourite programs of all time

Be seeing you!

Port Merion is the Mecca for this series The Prisoner Based in North Wales Amazing place

Great to see this again, slightly overspeed compared to the original sound track though.

Il est beau, un génie ❤🙏

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!

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 .

London looked beautiful back then compared to today.

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! 😄

Filing system at 1:28 is, in fairness, better than that on my Chromebook.

Wonderful stuff! Remember this from when I was a child!

Great show legend great actor Patrick rip he was great in ice station zebra and brave heart

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.

This is an INTENSE scene. Iconic. Once in the "secret agency" there is NO WAY OUT.

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! 🤔😜

Britain...what the hell happened ??

Timeless and brilliant 👌

OMG they sent Rees Mogg after him

No traffic in central London. Heaven

seemed to be more footage on this than when the serious started.

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.

The man behind the desk is George Markstein.

Unvergessen ❤

How right they were in 1967.

They did a renewed version of this in the 2000s. Absolutely no where near as good as the original!, what was the point??!!

01:31 - I aspire to get out of a car as cool and smoothly as that. Bucket list stuff.

0:44

Good old 15 frames per second.

Be seeing you.

FOR GOOD .....WHY ...

I always wondered how a secret agent could be so oblivious to a hearse that is nefariously shadowing his movements.

you know why cruise reinvented mission impossible, you can not better the prisoner series

小山田さん、良かったピッタリ

BCNU ......

Good County Leitrim man Patrick McGoohan. Son of Eire.

The uk is the village

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.

i thought that video meant prisoner cell block h aussie australian television tv series

Who is No1? You are No6!

I’m Not a Pronoun I’m a free man. 😉👌 Be seeing you

i do that every day, what country, what place and what year is it yaaaaahggg

Show!

💙

your in wales love

Whose number one. Not, who's number one.

Back when the UK was great-not like the 2024 disaster😡

specifically not too near rhyll but adiquitly far away from

"60s" not "60's"

What type of car was he driving?

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 .