Reply to: The Prisoner

[DaveB]

Yep.

It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.

Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.

McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.

The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE

WHS +1

[Tingles]

Stayed at Portmeirion Hotel (in one of the Village rooms) over the New Year for a few days...

I remember waking up early on New Years Day and walking around 'the Village' - no one else about, misty, very eerie indeed.

Remarkable place, remarkable series, remarkable actor.

Well worth a visit

[The Lone Gunman]

The original was crap.
It has only achieved cult status because it is so surreal.
It is so surreal because it was cancelled before any of the episodes which would explain it were made.
If it had been left to run its course we would not be discussing it now.

[Clippy]

Yep.

It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.

Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.

McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.

The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE

Noted with thanks.

Might just wait for the Blu Ray version.

[bogeyman]

...
So, by the sound of it, it would be worth me watching the original series.

Yep.

It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.

Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.

McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.

The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE

[Tingles]

I'd like to see a remake of the Anderson UFO series.

I remember, Peter Gordino as captain of the submarine - very surreal....

[Clippy]

Oh dear....

Did they have to wait for Pat M to die before the made / released it?

Nope, apparently he was fully 'on board' as far as the remake was concerned.

In fact, the old man in the trailer, who appears at 0:40, was apparently meant to be Patrick McGoohan but he wasn't able to do it for some reason.

I seem to recall they did a one off remake of it back in the 80s with Jools Holland as the prisoner & Stephen Fry as the creepy guy,was pretty good but never repeated AFAIK

Called The Laughing Prisoner and available on YouTube.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Whenever the yanks remake a British classic they invariably cock it up.

The Prisoner wasn't a yank FFS!

Look what they did to The Italian Job.

Why can't they keep their greasy Hollywood paws off our classics?

(oh, maybe because they've run out of original ideas)

So, by the sound of it, it would be worth me watching the original series.

[MrMark]

I'd like to see a remake of the Anderson UFO series.

[The_Equalizer]

It's just like the original with all the good bits removed.

[Pogle]

Oh gawd!
And I see someone has made a film of the classic "Picture of Dorien Gray" 'cept in the advert they pronounce it Doreen Gray! And for that reason alone Pogle will NOT being going to see it, despite rather liking the book.

[moorfield]

Did they have to wait for Pat M to die before the made / released it?

He had a clause in his contract, it was cheaper for them to wait for him to die. Really.

[Doggy Styles]

Gordon Brown should be Number One.

No, Gordon Brown is a number two. A big, damp smelly one.

[dinker]

Gordon Brown should be Number One.

[DaveB]

Not that I saw it but I would imagine that the remake of the Pink Panther would be a case in point. I normally quite like Steve Martin but nobody is fit to fill Peter Seller's role in those films IMO.

Pretty much spot on. It was awful.

[wurzel]

Whenever the yanks remake a British classic they invariably cock it up.

Not that I saw it but I would imagine that the remake of the Pink Panther would be a case in point. I normally quite like Steve Martin but nobody is fit to fill Peter Seller's role in those films IMO.