You Are Number 6!

But why do people born in the 1960s always get so into badly made TV serieses? That is so camp - and what is with those big balloons? Why doesnt he just tell them all to bugger off? If it's in Wales, why doesnt he flag down a tourist and ask for a lift???
And why cant they remember each other's names? There's only about 50 of them there. Names would be even more confusing. What happens when they have babies? Do they become 6.1?
Your generation are really weird.
(I liked the car he drives when I saw a opening credit - its a Lotus I think.)

yes there is..

Be seeing you

I thought they made tea cups.

Didnt you make teh connection between you and teh peculiar things?
DO they make tea cups? I think they do.

Just you be grateful they aren't remaking Adam Adamant Lives!

And there's bugger all wrong with camp: some of the best times I've had were in a tent.

Okay, grandad, now WHO the f**k is adam adamanant????
I go on goggle.

Just been on. My God! There pages of stuff on this. Fortunetly my dad was in Carnaby street in those years so I doubt he watched children's programmes. He watched something called Magic Roundabout which is a fable-based circus drama. And Jakannory(?) which is a oral story read for children at their tea time.
I was never allowed to watched TV when I was growing up. (Really). I still think it causes blisters on people's brains.

I cannot believe Ephraim you would indulge in such junk - you actually sound like an intellectual (like Desmond and even Pep). I can understand your fascination with sl, but a time traveller frozen in 19whatsit sound horribly childish.

The real village is called Portmeirion in Wales, the SL version is called Port Merion (note different spelling.

In The Village, role chooses you.

Personally I am avoiding this. For starts, the new character apparently does not appear in a Lotus 7 that he built himself (they came assembled or as a kit).

Mostly because they are, from what I have seen, keeping a few iconic bits and then "cleaning it up" for an American audience. There is only one Number Two, and the end apparently is unambiguous. The original was an interesting philosophical discussion wrapped up in a cheap set and give life by some rather good acting. It looks cheesy by modern standards because well, to be honest, TV wasn't as important back then, and budgets were much lower than current programs. The viewer was expected to bring a combination of imagination and suspension of disbelief to the program that died along with subtlety. God I miss subtlety. And ennui. And a valise...no one carries a valise any more...such a good word...but I digress...

Personally, I covet the Mark Cross Overnight Case that Grace Kelly employed in "Rear Window". But to each his own small luggage.

Good point about McGoohan getting away with both ambiguity and cheesiness due to the lesser importance of television (in marketing budgets, of course. And what, in this world, could be more important than marketing?)

I fear this new version will not have the consolations of good acting, as the lead is a weak reed. And we already know the ending, so, no pleasures to be had from surprise.

Not a good use of one's time, probably.

As the dwarf heard when starting to use his ax above Isengard:

"I am not a lumber, I am a tree man!"

Oddly the RL Port Merion is a kind of a build - a replica of a small Italian seaside town built on Cardigan Bay in chilly, damp N. Wales. Been there a few times - it has several small areas where you can enjoy your ice cream away from the drizzle *grin*

And yes - there IS a china pattern associated with Port Meirion......

And, let's not forget The Saint (Roger Moore) and the Avengers *grin*

Which is another good point...The Prisioner built off of McGoohan's role as John Drake in Danger Man. He had already established himself as a secret agent, which made the role of Number Six more complex. I was just looking at the IMDB entries for McGoohan and the lead in the new series, and realized that they have the man form that horrid excuse of a film version of The Count of Monte Cristo as Number Six. However, both actors appeared on Murder She Wrote.

It's the Rover Bubble for you!

I use a satchel or a briefcase when I am needing to look firm and businesslike. Leather gives me a whole new persona.

I understand that Number Two is a wizard now.....and the Village is filled with Hobbits.....

Originally Posted by DanielRavenNest Noe
As the dwarf heard when starting to use his ax above Isengard:

"I am not a lumber, I am a tree man!"



As the illegitimate child of Gollum and Yoda said:

My Preciousss, ... wants it we do.

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I used to beat up kids that were into stuff like this. I'd pinch their cheeks till they cried.

I was a child back then but I have a seriously long memory. One or two snippets still hang in from the cot and I have definite memories from my first year, including one particularly rainy day I spent trying to remember the preceding week, which I suppose was the day my brain's hard drive kicked in. I know I was very small because I couldn't talk and I could barely walk.

For what it's worth Adam Adamant Lives! wasn't a children's programme - it was a satire on the swinging sixties in the same vein as the original the Avengers series. Not that I understood that back then. I only recall a block of ice and the sporty little Mini (car not skirt) he kept on a revolving platform in his garage.

Sexton Blake was a children's programme. Jackanory was too but it was wet and I never watched it. The Magic Roundabout was excellent and it still has quite a cult following these days.


Punk was my coming-of-age thing and I guess it still is. Anything goes if you have the spirit to make something of it.

Gerald Harper was TEH KEWL! Considering he was whipped into the 60s after just seeing off Jack The Ripper. A reverse "Life On Mars".

Pep (Juliet Harmer was what kept me watching though.)

Wow! I lived in Harlech for a time, but my doctor was in Penrhyndeudraeth (promontory of the 2 beaches). When I visited the doctor, I went by rail (my other half didn't believe in having a car) and given the infrequency of trains on the Cambrian Coast Railway, a ten-minute appointment turned into a four-hour stay in Penrhyn. Or maybe it just felt like four hours.

Now that netbooks are small enough to fit in one they may make a comeback.

I never got into the Prisoner, and just caught a bit of this last night. Asked my son "is that the Prisoner, that looks like a remake!" and he was all "remake?". *sigh*

Guy I knew in Berkeley was all infatuated on the theory that inserting a Significant Comma would make it all make sense:

Who is Number One?

You are, Number Six.

One of the episodes had precisely *that* as its theme.

Pep (It didn't make sense. )

Woman! Without her, man is an animal.

Woman, without her man, is an animal.

Pep (Now tell me punctuation is unimportant. )