Forthcoming Prisoner Remake: Shocking Plot Twist Revealed

Jesse Walker | March 4, 2009

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|3.4.09 @ 3:04PM|#

I knew it!

|3.4.09 @ 3:08PM|#

Do you still think you can escape, Jesse?

|3.4.09 @ 3:08PM|#

I suppose Rockefeller is The Butler...

Jeff P|3.4.09 @ 3:11PM|#

Waitaminute! The Betty Ford Clinic looks like Portmeirion! It's an allegory for the individual's struggle against mandatory 12 Step Programs! Only with giant killer balloons!

|3.4.09 @ 3:13PM|#

So was Haig the real #6?

Confused|3.4.09 @ 3:14PM|#

I don't get it?

|3.4.09 @ 3:19PM|#

Who is #1?

Jesse Walker|3.4.09 @ 3:21PM|#

Confused: The Prisoner was a TV series, beloved by many libertarians, about a former secret agent being held in a mysterious island prison called The Village. The Village was run by an unseen figure called Number One and operated on a day to day basis by Number Two. A new person would take over the Number Two role in (almost) every episode, announcing him- or herself at the beginning of the show: "I am the new Number Two!"

|3.4.09 @ 3:24PM|#

Warren,

Patrick McGoohan.

Old Bull Lee|3.4.09 @ 3:29PM|#

But what does he want?

Kyle Jordan|3.4.09 @ 3:36PM|#

Never seen the show. I do have Number of the Beast though.

Have to check out The Prisoner.

|3.4.09 @ 3:40PM|#

Pro Lib,

Patrick McGoohan was #6

|3.4.09 @ 3:41PM|#

Old Bull Lee,
He wants information. In For Mation

|3.4.09 @ 3:43PM|#

Warren,

No, Number 6 was John Drake.

robc|3.4.09 @ 3:43PM|#

He was delicious.

|3.4.09 @ 3:49PM|#

"What do you want?"
"Information....or peanuts."
"You'll never get it!"


(My fav part of the Prisoner is the nearly 3-minute long intro sequence that almost never changes episode to episode. That, and the attempt to establish lava lamps as an ominous motif.)

Old Bull Lee|3.4.09 @ 3:54PM|#

By hook or by crook, we will!

As complex as the show is, you can watch almost any episode (maybe not Fall Out) as a standalone. That awesome intro gives you everything you need to know.

|3.4.09 @ 3:55PM|#

I finally watched some Secret Agent episodes. Pretty enjoyable. McGoohan is one of those guys you wish had done more.

|3.4.09 @ 4:24PM|#

That theme music was killer too.

Jeff P|3.4.09 @ 4:41PM|#

Number 7 was the Old Man's mule on Grizzly Adams.

|3.4.09 @ 4:48PM|#

Grizzly Adams was a remake of The Prisoner. Nakoma and Mad Jack alternated being Number 2. Adams, of course, was Number 6.

PR|3.4.09 @ 4:51PM|#

I wish they had made another Longshanks movie.

|3.4.09 @ 4:59PM|#

Edward I: The Early Years. Heck, they could've just done one with him without all the fictional stuff from Braveheart.

Don|3.4.09 @ 5:53PM|#

I wish the prisons that I have been in were so sophisticately run. Oh well, 6 of one and a half a dozen of the other. Don Meinshausen is out

|3.4.09 @ 6:19PM|#

I was left with the lingering question: What's so scary about a big circus balloon? And why do people let it digest them instead of just batting it away?

Jesse Walker|3.4.09 @ 6:25PM|#

Good to hear that you're out, Don.

jgr|3.4.09 @ 6:31PM|#

"My fav part of the Prisoner is the nearly 3-minute long intro sequence that almost never changes episode to episode."

Actually, it changed every episode in which it appeared. Each "New Number 2" did the voice over, often with emphasis on different parts. Same words, different voice.

Interestingly, the Blue Man Group's tour (as on the DVD) features audio clips from the Prisoner.

jgr|3.4.09 @ 6:32PM|#

"We want . . .information . . .information!"

"It'll cost you 50 cents!"

Franklin Harris|3.4.09 @ 7:35PM|#

Pop goes the weasel.

Hugh Akston|3.4.09 @ 9:45PM|#

I don't get it?

The TIME coverstory is referring to a time-honored system for discreetly informing others of your need to use the restroom, and in what capacity.

D.A. Ridgely|3.4.09 @ 11:04PM|#

Number 7 was the Old Man's mule on Grizzly Adams.

Incorrect. No.7 was Jack Daniel's.

|3.5.09 @ 11:57AM|#

I always figure She Who Must Be Obeyed for Number 1, since Horace Rumpole was the best Number 2.

Kevin

|3.5.09 @ 3:22PM|#

If Gerry Ford was the new #2 they Nixon was #1. Which makes sense now that I think about it....

Nemo|3.5.09 @ 7:40PM|#

I'm glad to see that Jesse Walker just graduated from clown college.