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 ………
@kevinduffy80Ай бұрын
Many a true word.....
@paultrought2677 күн бұрын
You could always say those words. But western society made sure it was a mockery of a statement.
@user-ev4rp3qb6x7 күн бұрын
@@paultrought267 For sure , but I’m not a number and I am a free man ………
@TheFortuneo9 ай бұрын
This has to be the best intro ever to a TV series.
@stevedonoghue1868Ай бұрын
Ah - the days when you could actually drive in London! The Prisoner - strange but somehow very compelling!
@Comfortzone99Ай бұрын
The door with 'way out' on sets up the whole series.
@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296Ай 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!"
@foxyjazzbopper3 күн бұрын
Be seeing you… excellent series and one of the best opening sequences ever
@cologne27929 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.
@markossmith87865 ай бұрын
@@altern8tive ...the plot thickens
@JeffreyTappan-bb8rrАй бұрын
Parking pass
@GbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhbАй бұрын
i’m standing outside his flat on Buckingham place watching this on my phone
@VickersDoorterАй бұрын
@@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb Freak ;-)
@CragsidebazАй бұрын
Yeh, but he parked on a yellow line 😂
@mrtheo7680 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic intro
@joannelawrence69132 жыл бұрын
RIP Mr McGoohan.
@KevinMurphy-kk6yzАй бұрын
“Be seeing you…”
@growlerthe2nd71225 күн бұрын
@@KevinMurphy-kk6yz👌👁️🇬🇧
@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-lx9tl3lc5f7 ай бұрын
Yes, it was a matter of conscience.
@paulfalconer34462 ай бұрын
One of my favourite programs of all time
@jamesshielssoberlife.3701 Жыл бұрын
Be seeing you!
@leighsaunderson9203 Жыл бұрын
"err,, only in colour sir..." "Much more expensive.."
@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.
@lawrencedoliveiro910411 ай бұрын
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis got fed up over the whole thing.
@carolebarker219511 ай бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I can believe it!
@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 .
@fodiladjila285310 ай бұрын
Il est beau, un génie ❤🙏
@tattyshoesshigure573111 ай 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!
@STEVEC664 ай бұрын
Seems Abingdon Green Car park is due to close now.
@tattyshoesshigure57314 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.
@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 .
@markossmith87865 ай бұрын
Not that many people would ‘get’ it
@DirtyDingusMcGeeАй бұрын
London looked beautiful back then compared to today.
@PaulB-justmeАй 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! 😄
@jackchapman69006 ай бұрын
Filing system at 1:28 is, in fairness, better than that on my Chromebook.
@OLDCHEMIST13 ай бұрын
Wonderful stuff! Remember this from when I was a child!
@user-xd7jl1ku7c5 күн бұрын
Great show legend great actor Patrick rip he was great in ice station zebra and brave heart
@r1273m10 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.
@locutus1553 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".
@hamoostaffatАй 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
@antonioallen17632 ай бұрын
This is an INTENSE scene. Iconic. Once in the "secret agency" there is NO WAY OUT.
@user-fp7rc6sp5t5 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-ev4rp3qb6xАй бұрын
Still ahead of the times after nearly 57 years.
@80srenaissance673 ай бұрын
Britain...what the hell happened ??
@hamoostaffatАй бұрын
The prisoners stopped fighting back
@ClivePotts-ns5hdАй бұрын
I agree...
@VickersDoorterАй бұрын
Windrush, Dr Beeching, Idi Amin kicking out the Asians and town planners destroying perfectly good town centres.
@growlerthe2nd712Ай бұрын
Brexit 😂
@80srenaissance67Ай бұрын
@@growlerthe2nd712 but we weren't part of Europe when the Prisoner was made ? 🤷
@ianbousfield19622 ай бұрын
Timeless and brilliant 👌
@jon6346Ай бұрын
OMG they sent Rees Mogg after him
@kevinduffy80Ай бұрын
No traffic in central London. Heaven
@staypress5 ай бұрын
seemed to be more footage on this than when the serious started.
@howardbeatman2820Ай 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.
@highwindsclarke268512 күн бұрын
The man behind the desk is George Markstein.
@reginabrotzki547811 ай бұрын
Unvergessen ❤
@sonnyirish36784 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??!!
@grahambell42987 ай бұрын
Sounds like your typical modern remake.
@winsomehax2 ай бұрын
01:31 - I aspire to get out of a car as cool and smoothly as that. Bucket list stuff.
@basedchungus9 ай бұрын
0:44
@VickersDoorterАй бұрын
Good old 15 frames per second.
@philipbonner64862 ай бұрын
Be seeing you.
@andreedowns456110 ай бұрын
FOR GOOD .....WHY ...
@TacomaRodeo4Ай бұрын
I always wondered how a secret agent could be so oblivious to a hearse that is nefariously shadowing his movements.
@peterhagan84548 ай бұрын
you know why cruise reinvented mission impossible, you can not better the prisoner series
@user-uv8cn1gk7n27 күн бұрын
小山田さん、良かったピッタリ
@kevinsargeant917110 ай бұрын
BCNU ......
@planetofthegael Жыл бұрын
Good County Leitrim man Patrick McGoohan. Son of Eire.
@Psmith-ek5hq Жыл бұрын
Born in New York City.
@lawrencedoliveiro910411 ай бұрын
Considered for James Bond, but he didn’t approve of the character. So he created his own.
@JohnRadford-iy7db3 күн бұрын
The uk is the village
@Ytsssss36410 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.
@tonymeck-lj8rv14 күн бұрын
i thought that video meant prisoner cell block h aussie australian television tv series
@tonyrobinson36210 ай бұрын
Who is No1? You are No6!
@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.
@peterhagan84548 ай бұрын
i do that every day, what country, what place and what year is it yaaaaahggg
@VijaySuryaAditya2 ай бұрын
Show!
@raffaeledigiusto20813 ай бұрын
💙
@peterhagan84548 ай бұрын
your in wales love
@ZER0--Ай бұрын
Whose number one. Not, who's number one.
@andycuthbert2763Ай бұрын
Back when the UK was great-not like the 2024 disaster😡
@peterhagan84548 ай бұрын
specifically not too near rhyll but adiquitly far away from
@bertram-raven Жыл бұрын
"60s" not "60's"
@nineteen848611 ай бұрын
Plank
@goldgeologist5320Ай бұрын
What type of car was he driving?
@Creighton-JonesАй бұрын
Lotus Seven
@AnthonyBrown12324Ай 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 .