[78-L] Patrick McGoohan^

[David Lennick]

Never saw it! I missed quite a lot of 60s television, being just too busy and 
then being a snob about it (didn't even own a set in '67 and '68).

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> 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! 
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> Quite quite...
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> Cary Ginell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 3:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Patrick McGoohan^
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> 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
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> 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
>