Arrival

I've always recognize Patrick McGoohan as a great British actor, even he quite often playing bad guys, in this new series ( at least for me) that I've never hear before, I've bought by Box-set for the main character, my first impression has a bit disappoint in this opening episode, when he as British secret agent is fed up with something and offers his dismissal, afterwards he was kidnapped to an unknown place called simply by the Village, where supposedly is impossible to escape, he was taken to be interviewed about their exactly reasons to let him drop out of the secret service, however the number six as they re-named him, didn't want give any information and trying run away from there, many them failed attempts, there he meets a former secret agent at hospital in the same condition , later he found dead, suddenly appears a widow's agent that has an unerring scheme to leave there, acceptable introducing series, what's coming up next, thus we can say more!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD/ Rating: 7.25

First episode of the classic British series that stars Patrick McGoohan as a mysterious British secret agent who, as the opening credits show, angrily resigns from service for undisclosed reasons, but it because of those reasons that he finds himself knocked out by a gas, then taken to a remote and regimented place called the village, where he is told by number two(who can change without notice...) no one has names, but numbers, and he is assigned the number six, which he utterly rejects, and vows to escape from this "prison", but that will prove to be most difficult indeed... Solid way to begin the series establishes "Six" quite well indeed, with fine acting and atmosphere throughout, creating true viewer interest in what this is all about.

For many years I was looking forward to see this great action series filled with fantasy and all these difficult different things I don't know your pussy cat ya no not a pussy gets yeah so anyway and then I'll see that I buy for my sweetheart and then all of a sudden it turns out to be such a stupid first Siri at first episode of the series and then of course you wonder if it's so silly and most silly over. Is everything the islands the behavior that the costumes the music or the lack of it and then especially those dangerous right balloons that are going up and down all the time and then during the people who try to escape and all these crazy things it's really not good and because of this you don't really want to see the rest of the series but then again the series is famous of being such a good series so definitely you will see it but you will it still a little bit it's like South Park the game is really not that good or not that great but the series is marvellous and the same thing with these are supposed to first episode really is not that good now but it wasn't those days of course when people didn't know so much about the Illuminati and the money hungry wolves of Hollywood but then again this is all how it goes and how it is by the way this is not Hollywood this is the UK but then again the media is all one big same thing look at The DaVinci code it says it right away and what can we say what can we do it's the way it is of course you need to be seen movies a bit more often to be able to come to this conclusion and if you come to the conclusion that you can only come to the same conclusion that life sucks it's not good and if you come to the conclusion that you get either incredibly paranoid or you live by yourself if you live by yourself you can see and choose the movies by yourself the ones you want to see and same thing with serious like this beautiful The prisoner which is actually beautiful series only the first episode wasn't so great but the ID is okay only the ID has been complicated and Storm by many and maybe this was the first time you don't know it but we shall see it in the future in sha Allah Allahu Akbar as Muslims we didn't like the first episode that we would like the rest inshallah

Love how the title sequence with that terrific Ron Grainer theme welling up behind it encapsulates in three minutes the who!e premise for what was to follow.

A top-level secret agent (possibly John Drake- a case of art imitating life imitating art?) angrily resigns his position but is then kidnapped and placed in an apparently sleepy but ultra-modern village in an unknown location where he is expected to acclimate himself to the mundane unchanging way of life and also to give up information as to why he resigned. This brings him into contact with the ever changing Number 2, the village controller tasked with breaking the new Number 6 as the new arrival is termed and what follows is a succession of episodes where the individual puts himself against the system, not only asserting his own free-will but resisting the constant intrusion into his own privacy.

This classic scene-setter introduces Patrick McGoohan as the blazered, scowling, fiercely resistant Number 6 determined to beat every new Number 2 and eventually escape the Village. He tries every conventional method in this first chapter to get away only to be thwarted every time especially when he learns of the existence of "Rover" an absorbent roaring sci-fi bubble which acts as a sort of guard dog for the premises.

McGoohan is magnificent in the lead role in one of those rare TV shows which comes along and is completely unlike anything which has gone before. It baffled much of the public when first broadcast but makes more sense in today's more enlightened times.

Give it a chance and it will imprison your interest for all 17 episodes.

They do not make them like this anymore. You would never get a series with such a long opening title sequence for a start.

I watched The Prisoner in the early 1980s. I was determined that I would understand it all. Some hope, even its main creative force, star and producer Patrick McGoohan could not figure it all by the end. McGoohan did give an interview on television cryptically stating it was all in No 6's mind. A prisoner of the mind is the best it gets as far as an explanation goes.

McGoohan made his name on British television as John Drake in Dangerman. Here, we see McGoohan play an unnamed operative who quits British Intelligence. It is fair to assume he is Drake.

After he arrives home, he is gassed and he wakes up in the Village. It is like a self contained Butlins holiday camp. The Prisoner is assigned a number, the Number 6. He is controlled by Number 2, who explains the rules of the Village. Number 6 is a valuable commodity with the things he knows. Number 2 wants to know why he quit.

Number 6 just wants to escape and live a normal life. He is not a number but a free man. It is not possible, the Village is controlled. The inhabitants cannot be trusted and there are barriers in place to prevent any escape, especially the giant balloon, a rover that could disable you.

This is a mysterious, unnerving, even a psychedelic thriller. It is a one of a kind type of series. It was shot in an Italian style village in Portmeirion, North Wales.

Innovative, expensive to make and so well realised. There have been degree modules examining this series.

The opening episode just bolts out of the blocks. Number 6 is a pawn, friends who he knew are playing him. Even Number 2 changes midway because Number 6 is so determined to escape.

A classic opening to a television great.