THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part two.

XboxXXX Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - According to Patrick McGoohan's widow, producers of the new series hoped that McGoohan would play a part in bringing the revival to the air. "They wanted Patrick to have some part in it, but he adamantly didn't want to be involved. He had already done it," she said in an interview shortly after McGoohan's death.

MrCrispian Says:

Dec 1, 2009 - no1 / myselfbe seeing you / be looking at you

AnElephantsChild Says:

Dec 20, 2009 - Fasinating !Thanks for putting it on here - never seen it before.I've come to the conclusion that if you need an explanation of the ending - you don't really NEED to know what it means.

jodyusa Says:

Jan 19, 2010 - The ending was sublime...perfection. What's baffling is that there are so many today imprecating the evil allegorized in "The Prisoner", as if apprenticing for Hell.

paisleybabee Says:

Mar 8, 2010 - I've never seen it!

TheMasterNo6 Says:

May 1, 2010 - The real No.1 was The State....No.6 see's his own face because HE was his own imprisoner...If he hadn't resigned, he wouldn't have been imprisoned in The Village....thats how I see it. But McGOOHANs allegorical stance on it is as true too.

NoZenIsZen Says:

May 31, 2010 - It's very simple. Number one is the reflection of our inner-life, which is mostly abused because much of it is unconscious. If you like to give away your freedom by trading it for external motives one is an prisoner. Number 6 sees trough the lies and stick with his attitudinal freedom which is in your own mind and can BE taken away,only if you choose to.

orangehorse Says:

Aug 24, 2010 - @betoian What is that Marcus Aurelius quote that you are referencing, and where is it from? I really like it.

theviker Says:

Aug 25, 2010 - @jodyusa series like LOST and Twin Peaks have so much to thank to the Prisoner, genius TV

theviker Says:

Aug 25, 2010 - after watching the complete season of LOST, its incredible how much was taken from the Prisoner. Incredible series

MrThompsonpj Says:

Oct 9, 2010 - The most wonderful piece of TV ever ... could never be remade either, no point ... Interesting that the No. 1 issue was always hinted in the opening talkover credit, where P asks 'Who is number 1', then we hear the voice of No. 2 replying, 'You are number 6' (if you slip a comma after 'are', you get, "You are, number 6") ... just a speculation .... Every time I watch any episode, I always get something new out of it, and I saw it the first time around. "The sky is the limit, be seeing you" Wow

elfyboy Says:

Nov 6, 2010 - @AnElephantsChild Best analysis I have ever heard, bar none! However, isn't it precisely those people who don't understand who NEED to know what it means for the sake of those who do know? ;)

AnElephantsChild Says:

Nov 6, 2010 - @MrThompsonpj OMG - You're right !I'd never thought of that before, one comma in the script explains everything. All the times I've seen The Prisoner & I've never noticed that before. You really can watch it forever & still find something new every time.

MrThompsonpj Says:

Nov 14, 2010 - Thanks Elephants Child ... the best secrets seem to hide in plain sight ...

PaleHearse Says:

Nov 25, 2010 - Brilliant.. just brilliant.~Be seeing you~

LindaUKRose Says:

Nov 27, 2010 - does anyone know where this was filmed? a wonderful man!

Pmg6portmeirion Says:

Nov 28, 2010 - @LindaUKRose I would think just outside L.A. where he lived.

NicoletteOlivier Says:

Apr 15, 2011 - So funny, I love this man.

NicoletteOlivier Says:

Apr 15, 2011 - Be seeing you...

gadzodilo Says:

Sep 20, 2011 - This is awesome. Patrick McGoohan is so amazing. He's totally, totally bullshitting his way through this interview because he just made a bunch of stuff up for the last episode and he knows it, all these years later. But that was what was so incredible about it. He doesn't have to explain anything --- if you got something out of that episode, great, and if you didn't, you were the fool who watched it.

ThePaulaLeigh Says:

Nov 8, 2011 - Awesome how he got it back then...and we still don't "get it" now... "When they are walking around not thinking...not feeling..." Loss of Free Will... Awesome show! Thanks for sharing this interview!

CliffTheMeerkat Says:

Nov 13, 2011 - It's ironic that the series ended up making a kind of prisoner out of Mcgoohan himself. It's obvious from his interviews that he was a hugely creative and original thinker, with the potential to have spent decades creating compelling, thought provoking drama. But instead, all anyone wanted to talk to him about, or saw him as, was The Prisoner.

CliffTheMeerkat Says:

Nov 13, 2011 - Incidentally, can I mention in passing The Man Who Was Thursday? I've no idea if Mr Mcgoohan was familiar with it or not, but for those who've read it, the parallels between No 1 and Sunday are surely obvious?

SherryVapors Says:

Jan 31, 2012 - Be seeing you ... you wonderful, brilliant man. RIP