I'm rewatching the show again and I NEVER skip the credits. The tune never gets old.

@LetsRoleplay

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you find it? I've never had the chance to watch this show. It's not on any of the big streaming services here in Canada - at least not that I am aware of.

@benrlego

2 жыл бұрын

@@LetsRoleplay It’s on Amazon Prime in the States, not sure if it is in Canada. Otherwise you may be left to hunt down the show on VHS, DVD, or Blu-Ray which is unfortunately costly. Not too many places streaming this show which is a shame given it’s one of television’s masterpieces.

@LetsRoleplay

2 жыл бұрын

@@benrlego Thanks very much!

@wjack4728

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, a great intro, theme song, and exit are a must, and The Prisoner had that beautifully, and a great show to match it.

One of the all time coolest episode theme music compositions ever! The horns give it such presence. Have to love the over use of the phrase "Be Seeing You" , as if they had a choice, they were all prisoners there.

The most prophetic TV series ever produced! Blew me out of the water when I first saw it in 1967. A complete revolution in TV programming that is the basis for so many other movies and TV series. McGoohan was a genius.

Also one of the best theme tunes ever scored!

@sillyone52062

8 жыл бұрын

Makes me drive ten MPH faster if I play it while on the road! I was always in awe when the penny farthing started being assembled.

@Turrican60

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, Phillip, it's one of the greatest theme tunes without a shadow of doubt....but probably also the most iconic ever created, too.

@markfullilove9983

6 жыл бұрын

PHILLIP WADE The 60s had great theme songs that hooked you in.

@FHIPrincePeter

5 жыл бұрын

@@Turrican60 I preferred the Persuaders one myself, but the Prisoner Series was substantially better.

@Turrican60

5 жыл бұрын

@@FHIPrincePeter Funnily enough, I love The Persuaders theme, too. It's a fantastic, atmospheric, dreamy piece of music. Cheesy to say, I know, but they don't make music like they used to ;-)

This is at least for me the greatest series ever. Profound, surreal lovechild of Kafka and Orwell with top actors and music.

@longwlenguyen4214

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry mate, we're all in this together. Brazil my heart in amber moon

@rickfrombohemia9550

3 жыл бұрын

@@longwlenguyen4214 Yeah, Brazil is probably my most favourite movie. I guess I just like dystopias, lol.

@danielcheatham3400

5 ай бұрын

I've been to the Village. much smaller than it looks

Singularly brilliant, One of the best programs of ALL TIME!

One of the greatest tv themes ever.

Producers of the new Bond films wanted Patrick McGoohan to play James Bond before Sean Connery, but he turned it down due to Bond's excessive killing and promiscuity. It is also reported that it was Patrick McGoohan who recommended Connery for the role of Bond. The rest, is history.

@mikeanagnostou4399

2 жыл бұрын

All true! McGoohan was very principled and creative and didn’t want to play a cartoonish character. James Bond actually was a newspaper comic strip in Britain at the time.

From the days when the UK had a world-class TV-film industry.

@gregoryhagen8801

Ай бұрын

They had "style" for sure. 🇬🇧

60s theme songs kick a$$. I couldn’t get it out of my head all day.

The theme music to a superb series that followed another superb series (Danger Man). God bless all associated with this work. Thanks to Lord Lew Grade, Patrick McGoohan, Edwin Astley, Ron Grainer, Bernard Williams, Jack Shampan and everyone involved. What a treasure trove these individuals have left us all. The Prisoner and Danger Man, both iconic legendary 60's series, reek of pure quality and are exemplary of the very best that dramatic arts can offer. Absolutely stupendous in every respect. I love these songs today as I did when I first heard them way back then. The series they announced were the height of dramatic quality. They render modern dramatic series as utter contemptible rubbish in comparison.

@Telephonebill51

Жыл бұрын

I watched that in the States as Secret Agent. Johnny Rivers made a fortune on the theme music. Leo McKern (Number 2) was the High priest dude trying to paint Ringo red in "Help" two years earlier. Good stuff back then.

The high-wheeled bicycle is considered to be "an ironic symbol of progress" in this show; it was a prop usually seen in the control room of The Village, and is closely associated with No. 6's captors. Like the outward manifestations of The Village itself, the bike appears normal, harmless, reassuring, even quaint -- but it DISTRACTS ONE from recognizing the existence of the creepy, intrusive, antiseptic, morally ambiguous, highly-technocratic, and potentially violent mechanisms of social control that lie just beyond ones' sight, ready to swoop if need be. There is suggested a sharp dichotomy between our "genuine", slow-paced past based on human relationships, rugged individualism, and aesthetics, and a soulless modern era emphasizing division, distrust, and conformity at the same time. This dichotomy, which was only then emerging in Britain and the West as it had earlier in the USSR, was among McGoohan's main themes in producing the show.

@petermcintyreA1

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Haworth A first class 'A level' description, indeed.

@icmeler2000

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. The bike looks like the old penny-farthing to me - popular in the 1870's.

@blahdeblah6207

5 жыл бұрын

Jeez that's the sharpest, most insightful thing I've read in a while. A real gem, this.

@suecaz27

5 жыл бұрын

The ending is the symbolism of the mission of St Patrick. That is whom The Prisoner is.

@TheBrummie60

4 жыл бұрын

...and look where we are today. The Prisoner was a warning; the nightmare scenario has become a terrifying reality. We even invite Alexa into our homes!

Oh.. how this brings back memories! Loved the suspense of this GREAT TV show when I was just a "baby-girl" back in the 60s-70s

And this is why you should be packed and have all your ducks lined up to go underground BEFORE you resign from the shady secret organization.

I'm not a number, I'm a free man.

@kristianyrjola

5 жыл бұрын

I know one, who IS FREEMAN!!!

@ericsinger2692

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

@patrickkirwan3353

4 жыл бұрын

If you have a birth certificate your not a free man, you are a bonded slave!

Patrick McGoohan was multi-talented, with an exceedingly creative mind, great wit and superb taste. Of all of his work in the medium of television, this series is his lasting testament - from conception to writing, and casting to production (with Ron Grainer's music, together with Jack Shampan's art direction in the closing credits, the perfect - and iconic - fit). An excellent job of editing, not to mention the quality of the transfer; thanks so much for posting this.

"By hook or by crook... we will!"

love love the music, i crew up watching the original series as a kid in south east london . o what memories....ty

I was 10 when this came out. My favorite show then & remains my favorite. A remarkable creation, very prescient. Last night I watched an episode of Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) called "Colony 3" which seems to be the precursor for The Village. The episode is about a spy village the Communists run in Russia, which is a perfect replica of an English village, to teach their spies how to be "English". They have permanent residents, defecting Communists from the UK but once you're there, you can never leave. Very much like The Village. And a GREAT episode!

This theme does what it's supposed to do - draw you in to want to watch the show. And the show pays off.

London in the Sixties it looks all righte, very nice

If this chap tried a stunt like that today he would probably end up zipped up in a sports bag in the bath...

@atomicskull6405

5 жыл бұрын

It would have happened back then too look up Frank Olson.

@BlueTroll

3 жыл бұрын

There is no value in that. 1. They need to know something he knows 2. They are testing if there system and methods of choosing agents, or keeping them in line works. It's not just that he has information, or may be a traitor, they are testing to see if there is a problem that goes just beyond him. Depending on your knowledge of the show, the cold war and Orwellian society, it's fairly possible that the village is a joint operation between both sides, and a traitor, or worse, someone who has proof that "war is peace", they need to contain. But again, killing is not the best option because they can use him to see if there is a systematic problem rather than just him as an individual.

Love this television series and the theme music

The best TV show. 😍

What struck me was how little traffic there was on the streets of London! Also strange to think that Patrick McGoohan's car is now 50 years old ('C' reg = 1965) - I'm getting old too! :(

@roberthenderson8961

8 жыл бұрын

Never to old for great drama . Might I suggest " Thorne " .

@alanwaites8627

4 жыл бұрын

In London, traffic scenes are always on Sunday mornings

@astragreen

4 жыл бұрын

In case you don't know it's a tv program that's why they restricted the traffic

I like how his (1600 cc four cylinder) Lotus 7 suddenly develops a V12 exhaust note at the 24 second mark.

Amazing I really enjoyed it. Brings back memories of the original one I used to watch every week.

A show far ahead of it's time.

I love the sound of the hissing gas at 1:28. It's even more sinister if you listen to the music, but not watch the video.

There must have been more than one Village scattered throughout the world, because The Village was at times shown to be an island community, but in the last episode The Village appeared to be somewhere in London.

On the rare occasions when my parents let me stay up late to see this in the 1960's I would have nightmares afterwards about 'Rover' - 5 decades later this oversized psychopathic beach ball just makes me chortle. Still, a great series though, and way ahead of its time.

@soylentteal

5 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine a race of giants at a rock concert, bouncing Rover around the arena.

@vintagebrew1057

4 жыл бұрын

That bloody ball still haunts my dreams!

@samjohnson5044

Жыл бұрын

Rover represents the enforcement division of the police state?

Well done, Mr. Mcgoohan. BCNU.

A TV show that created a font! The British are so polite, even when they want.....information, information.

@matadorman78

6 жыл бұрын

sillyone52062 they did not create the font. It was already in use. Its German. I use it on my taxi cabs.

@linus1707

6 жыл бұрын

Ae Falzon I don,t know who created it but the typeface is Albertus medium. I'm a graphic designer and I love it.

@petermcintyreA1

6 жыл бұрын

It might be a variant of Albertus, as was suggested. The City of London crematorium, use a very similar style, and actually claim that it's theirs! I know this because I worked on their signs and had the font (typeface, in old money) supplied to us by their art/print department......

@dang2443

3 жыл бұрын

More like slightly altered an existing font

The Canadian label Disques Cinémusique recently released large excerpts from two soundtracks composed and conducted by Ron Grainer in the early sixties : Nothing But the Best and The Moon-Spinners. Available as download and stream on most digital stores online.

Brilliant series.

Whenever life becomes too stressful, demanding, pressurised or even out of control, simply remember Patrick's wisest of words: 'My life is my own'.

@fodiladjila2853

Жыл бұрын

❤🙏

Theme by Ron Grainer. He also composed the theme for Doctor Who.

@TheBrummie60

4 жыл бұрын

...and Steptoe & Son.

@TheBrummie60

4 жыл бұрын

... even Tales of the Unexpected.

I read somewhere that the John Drake character, which was No. 6, later became a character in " Ice Station Zebra " . And, he went from a teetotaler, to a social drinker, to a raving drunk.

This series was confusing as all get out. But I absolutely loved it!

Brilliant, program!

"We want...information...information...information..." "You won't get it!" "By hook or by crook, we.... okay, seriously, tell us how you were able to make lightning flash inside of a building!! You can't expect us to allow you to break the laws of time and space without picquing our interest!!"

Loved that show watched it on a local pbs station in gerogia long ago

one of those cars had passed me recently, and I quickly called out, ' hey, are you the new number 6' He didn't get it, which didn't surprise me: he looked quite old though....

@waynechanner4339

6 жыл бұрын

LOL!!! Indeed

@chrismcdade8283

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, he didn't respond since he was the new number Two. :)

@freedomvigilant1234

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrismcdade8283 Perhaps he was Number 1...

@petermcintyreA1

5 жыл бұрын

@@freedomvigilant1234 no: I was! 😋

@chrismcdade8283

5 жыл бұрын

@@freedomvigilant1234 Alas, Number One is a computer or A.I. entity. The robots have risen. :) All kidding aside, it is one of my favorite theme songs and arguably one of the best TV shows of all time.

"They've given you a numba and taken away your name"

@nhmooytis7058

3 жыл бұрын

That’s Secret Agent Man not The Prisoner.

@michaelschramm1064

3 жыл бұрын

@@nhmooytis7058 He probably knows that...and is implying what many viewers always felt-that Number 6 is John Drake.

@nhmooytis7058

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelschramm1064 yes.

I T C The Prisoner And The Champions. Television growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

ty for this

Excellent!❤

Love the theme

Wonderful.

Absolutely the best theme song 🎵

We are all just a NUMBER!

genius

It's funny, I just heard a clip of Walk Don't Run by the Ventures, and it's definitely got a similar feel on the guitar!

Left everyone wondering what was going on. Be seeing you

Me lo ricordo nel 1975. Tv bianco e nero. La bolla che usciva dal mare...che paura!!!

Who is Number One? You are . . . , Number Six .

@michaelhegyan7464

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Tappan, that would be telling...

@sillyone52062

7 жыл бұрын

I am not a number, I am a free man!

@zangiefromanov2563

7 жыл бұрын

You are number six.... Hidden in plain sight. All that "I didn't know until I wrote the last episode" bs. Lol. Great actor and excellent series. And that's coming from a young man born in the 80's.

@stupidsmart-phone6911

4 жыл бұрын

Ironically his house number is 1. Very obvious and intentionally shown in 'Many Happy Returns'.

if you got sky they are repeating this on true entertainment channel 183 at 9 pm weekdays. along with the avengers with honor blackman and the persuaders.. great fun !!

Music by Ron Grainer, perhaps best known in America as the composer of the wonderful soundtrack for "The Omega Man."

@daybeau7819

3 жыл бұрын

What about "Secret Agent Man"?

@soylentteal

3 жыл бұрын

@@daybeau7819 That was composed for McGoohan's series "Danger Man," but not by Grainer.

@gregoryhagen8801

10 ай бұрын

@@daybeau7819 that was Johnny Rivers.

Number 2: "I am the new Number 2." Number 6: "Who is Number 1?" Number 2: "You,.. are Number 6." Number 2 dodged that question like a modern politician.

This TV show is insanely good. Insanely! How? Doesn't matter. It is.

Great drumming

please send jeremy kyle and all his guests too the village one way!!

Although I don't want to spoil fan's feelings for Number 6, for many years I always wondered who Number 1 was. In a recent boxset, watching the last episode it hit me. The only other person to have an almost every part showing was the Butler. He sees everything, heard everything but never spoke. Even in the end the butler is back in Number 6's home. Who better to keep an eye on him. Number 1 was the butler. Comments in support or against are welcome

@cjanon305

4 жыл бұрын

I thought number 1 was number 6 in a gorilla mask?

@TheRenegadist

3 жыл бұрын

A year later and it's definitely an interesting theory, first one I've seen.

inoubliable !

Sometimes all the parts of the bicycle would disappear at the end, except for the wheels.

F****g superb!!

We are all just numbers?

The Thunderstorm opening should have had the ITC Presents

@Turrican60

6 жыл бұрын

No, it shouldn't - it's perfect as it is.

@0:58 Looks like the Mission Impossible team were there using the same equipment to create a false background as they did in Ghost Protocol.

A blind person would immediately know it was a British spy series.

Nice Lotus 7

We want information! You wont get it....I'm not a number I'm a free man....ahhahahaahahh!!

“ ROVER “ “ YES “ “ And “ “ The “ “ Conga “ “ Drums “ “ Jamming “

I am not a NUMBER!

What would you give for that Lotus 7

prilliant brogram...

Be seeing you . . .

Bee seeing you

Timbaland and Magoo "We At It Again" brought me here

Where all SECRET AGENT MEN go to live out the rest of their lives........ the finally was WEIRD

The music from the BBC series “World at War” 1974, you guys would like to..

1.11 - 1.41 The Duke of Edinburgh taking care of business as usual.

The trombones are dominant I both themes.

21 seconds, skinflint, didn't bother to pay for indicators...

anyone know where I can get this ringtone for my phone?

Who are you? The new number 2 Who is number 1 ? You are number 6. I am not a number I am a free man.... hahahaha

who is number one...that would be telling..

Does the last picture mean that the rover is in resurrection and get away to live his own life?

my version has better quality but another ending.thx 4 this 1!

want the car soooooo bad

Fun fact: this song was written by the same guy who wrote the Dr. Who theme.

I thought the opening ended with a brief shot of him waking up in the village.

@mrgobrien

6 жыл бұрын

yes it did - and then running down the beach arguing with the voice of Number 2 etc

@nevittwoods1730

5 жыл бұрын

why bother they were crazy anyhow

@joansmith6092

5 жыл бұрын

@@mrgobrien There was a new No.2 every week when the previous No. 2 failed their mission.

@mrgobrien

5 жыл бұрын

@@joansmith6092 some episodes had more than one Number 2 - weird - and Leo McKern was Number 2 in two episodes - Number 2 did not always fail but was seen leaving when definitely defeated - the main reason for all the switches was finding actors who didn't have existing theatre contracts in an era when most did.

nyoom

If you like the prisoner, join the prisoner discord! discord.gg/KzrcUSg

he had a colourful imagination and friends in the gay comunity

The car he drives is a Morgan - cost £30,000 - hand built to order. I am saving for one,

@douglasgreen437

6 жыл бұрын

It's a Lotus Super 7

@tiggywinkle1000

6 жыл бұрын

Yes; I got that wrong, thanks for the check. Still like the handbuilt British Morgans, though.

@wendellowings4975

9 ай бұрын

In 2023 or 1968

Why did you think a big balloon would stop people ?

@mrgobrien

6 жыл бұрын

Rover it was called - somehow it worked.

The greatest TV series ever. Pat McGoohan was the most talented man in film\TV for many years. Both he and Stanley Baker turned down Bond but neithers career suffered for it

BCNU

John Drake aka number 6?!!

@jbeattie1244

6 жыл бұрын

He has had many of name but u would be surprised what his real name was

@jbeattie1244

6 жыл бұрын

DragonlordWarlock what is ur number villager ?

@jbeattie1244

6 жыл бұрын

DragonlordWarlock we will be seeing u shortly 👀