https://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling Archive television thoughts Wed, 22 May 2024 21:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-47633 Wed, 22 May 2024 21:15:38 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-47633 The ugly old-fashioned building is the GEC Marconi headquarters, I’ve been there myself in the early 1990s (we had to be escorted by a member of staff for security as it was doing top secret government research stuff – so pretty well-suited to be P’s headquarters!). We rode the Paternoster lift with the actor from this episode who had done the same some 25 years earlier, James Bree!

]]> https://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-34447 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:05:10 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-34447 He wouldn’t have “shagged around half the Village”. He was a one-woman man. Like McGoohan hmself. It’s his morality.

]]> https://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-27480 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:31:09 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/the-prisoner-do-not-forsake-me-oh-my-darling#comment-27480 Its a brilliant episode in my view, mainly because of the incredible performance by Nigel Stock. The alternative storyline pitched for the McGoohan lite episode had No.6 stepping into a magician’s cabinet and vanishing! I’m glad they went with this one instead. Alex Cox is a big fan.

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