[78-L] Patrick McGoohan^

[soundthink at aol.com]

There was only one series. McGoohan had originally planned for it to last 7 episodes, but Grade insisted McGoohan prepare 26, so they could get a full season of sponsorships. They eventually compromised and McGoohan came up with 10 additional episodes for a total of 17. "Pop Goes the Weasel" was a nursery rhyme that was used in several of the episodes, but for a reason. "Pop" was to represent the annihilation of the world! 

Quite quite...


Cary Ginell


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: [78-L] Patrick McGoohan^



soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> I've been waiting for an excuse to bring up McGoohan's name. "The Prisoner" is 
my all-time favorite TV show. Watched it with my dad back in '68. It was the 
summer replacement for "The Jackie Gleason Show" and it only took me 2 minutes 
to get over my disappointment that I wasn't going to see Ralph and Norton 
slugging it out all summer and got hooked on "The Prisoner." It was Ron 
Grainer's theme music that got me first, and then the thought-provoking, 
agonizing storylines. 
> 
> Cary Ginell
------------------
Apparently there were two series of "The Prisoner" and ITV eventually 
pulled it, presumably because the plots were getting threadbare--too 
much reciting of nursery rhymes to my recollection. The "Melody Maker" 
of the time reports this.

      Julian Vein

_______________________________________________
78-L mailing list
78-L at klickitat.78online.com
http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l