THE PRISONER - EPISODE 1 THE ARRIVAL (1967) REACTION VIDEO! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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THE PRISONER - EPISODE 1 THE ARRIVAL (1967) REACTION VIDEO! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Polls, early access and full reactions on Patreon - / reelreviewswithjen
Watch me watch this classic 1960's TV show, The Prisoner, Season 1, Episode 1, The Arrival, in this first time watching reaction video! This episode of The Prisoner, tells the story of after quitting, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
This TV show was created by Patrick McGoohan. This episode was directed by Don Chaffey and written by George Markstein and David Tomblin. The Prisoner stars Patrick McGoohan
as Number Six, Virginia Maskell as The Woman, Paul Eddington as Cobb, George Baker
as The New Number Two, Angelo Muscat as The Butler, Barbara Yu Ling as Taxi Driver, Stephanie Randall as Maid, Fabia Drake as Welfare Worker and Jack Allen as Doctor.
Check out this first time watching horror reaction video for The Prisoner and see if I can make it as a sci-fi TV show rookie. Horror is a genre I've barely explored, mostly because I'm a huge wuss. Typically my TV Show viewings consist of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Worst Witch. This year I decided to expand my TV show knowledge and try and watch these horror TV Show fan favourites.
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@scottkenney4118 3 года назад

Greatest opening credit sequence of any TV show ever.

@Greenwood4727 3 года назад

it was more a Movie opening than a tv show

@rushmore4423 2 года назад

@@Greenwood4727 same guy who wrote the music for the prisoner wrote the music for doctor who

@spacedinosaur8733 2 года назад

I love the thunderclap when he pushes open the doors when quitting.

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

@@rushmore4423 Ron Grainer did the music! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Skidoo22 11 месяцев назад

And Steptoe and Son, of course @@rushmore4423

@nicholasbielik7156 3 года назад

Would love to see your reaction to the whole series, but buckle up for surrealistic weirdness if you do!

@ishtarian 11 месяцев назад

THAT -- is an understatement.....

@michaelmcfarland1716 3 года назад

The whole show is a trippy watch, but the last episode will blow the mind.

@SamuelBlack84 3 года назад

My favourite episode is the Girl Who Was Death

@dngillikin 3 года назад

You'll never see a certain Beatles song the same way again.

@xenocore01 3 года назад

The last episode just pissed me off. I was really hoping for something else after an entire season of build-up.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

@@xenocore01 Don't ruin it for her.

@alansmith1989 2 года назад

@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA Indeed- folk should think before posting what amounts to `spoilers` Jen has never seen this before. Please don't spoil it for her folks.

@timbuktu8069 3 года назад

"Be seeing you." clearly implies "You are NEVER leaving and we are watching you."

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Well that’s terrifying 😬😬

@1WISEWATCHER 3 месяца назад

What does the OK sign over an eye gesture mean? Is it a symbol for the Illuminati or something else? It is the Illuminating Eye, Primus Oculus, the first eye. See also, the eye of Horus, eye of Saturn, eye of Jupiter, all seeing eye, Pino occhio in Italian, the eye of God or Providence in America, Nosce Te Ipsum. Pro Aris Et Focis. I Am is the way. I Am is the light. I Am is the truth. Ego sum Lucis Ferre. Learn to think multidimensionally, as you are multi-dimensional and so is life. Umwelt is a very important term to understand. Some who do understand, and others who do not, have used this hidden knowledge to attack certain people who they seem to be demonic or evil, when it is the case with sorcery, as with any other power on earth, that it will be used by people of all the spectrum of emotion and moral expression. It is not the tools that define man, yet what he does with those tools, and the tools man has now, tools of the mind with which communities can be networked to support people with different abilities or the tools as we have seen play out in the media as two sides of a country are drawn by corporate puppet masters and pitted against each other til talk of war and destruction threaten peace that we have enjoyed for a hundred years in the US. Your neighbor is not your enemy, be they black, white, gay or straight, witch, wizards, etc, the only enemy is ignorance, and those that would place themselves above the rest. Do right, Fear no man.@@ReelReviewsWithJen

@StuartLloyd-gz3tm 9 месяцев назад

Patrick McGoohan was also in the film ‘Hell Drivers’ where he played a thuggish lorry driver. Quality actor

@joelbyrnes6946 3 года назад

That ball is iconic. I can't remember how old I was but at some point when I was a kid they were showing reruns of this show, and I never forgot it. The Prisoner was still being referenced over 30 years later in The Simpsons "Why did you think a big balloon would stop him?" "Shut up! That's why!"

@TheRAH14 3 года назад

McGoohan reprised Number 6 in that episode, the only time he did that and one of his last acting roles!

@schirpik Месяц назад

I saw it 68-69 When it first showing on American tv the ball (Rover?) gave 6 year old me nightmares.

@nicholasbielik7156 3 года назад

One of my favorite shows ever. I stumbled onto it while watching the SciFi channel in the early 90s, so I literally had no context or outside information about the show.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Yeah I hadn't heard about this show until it was recommended, very interesting concept.

@rushmore4423 2 года назад

i found the show in the 60's, i lucked out and got to watch it first run on CBS We had no VCR's to catch shows we missed

@SamuelBlack84 Год назад

My family went to Port Merrion, where it was filmed when I was a kid. It's a beautiful place

@mark-nm4tc Год назад

The place where the show was made is Portmeirion in North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and has featured in a few TV shows although the Prisoner really put it on the map. If you're ever in Wales, certainly worth a visit.

@ReelReviewsWithJen Год назад

So cool! Yeah I’d love to visit one day! Thanks for watching 🎬

@davidyoung5114 3 месяца назад

THE PRISONER was considered to be the very first television 'mini-series', as it was designed to have a limited number of episodes (8 or 10 to start with, and then the producers convinced McGoohan to extend it to 17 episodes), with no plans to continue it.

@ralphjones9903 2 месяца назад

They actually had plans to do 34 or more but settled on just 17.

@awall1701 3 года назад

Loved The Prisoner, especially some of the quotes. 'Be Seeing You!'

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

yeah it's an interesting concept for sure, thanks for watching!

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.”

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

@@1nelsondj I have that on a T shirt! LOL! I have another with number 6 on it and UNMUTUAL written in big letters.

@wumpscutx1 3 года назад

Patrick McGoohan played Dr Paul Ruth in Scanners.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Really!? That's crazy! Thanks for watching!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Hi Jen please do a reaction video for the 1973 film Zardoz with Sean Connery & Charlotte Rampling. Like The Prisoner, Zardoz is very weird and surreal and it might be to your taste? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@1WISEWATCHER 3 месяца назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen He played the Alkatraz warden as well in Clint Eastwoode movie.

@Youcannotfalter 2 года назад

This show was Ahead of the game then and still is. One of the greatest tv series ever made.

@portland-182 3 года назад

'Dangerman' - known as 'Secret Agent' in the US was McGoohan's previous series. He was a massive star through 'Dangerman', and was the highest paid TV actor in the UK at the time.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Oh okay I had no idea! Clearly he has a great resume! Thanks for watching!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

Was John Drake (Danger Man) also Number-6? i.e. were they one and the same or two sides of the same coin?

@portland-182 2 года назад

@@andrewhillis9544 For copyright reasons they are not the same person. (but yes, yes they are)!

@jamesbrice6619 Год назад

@@andrewhillis9544 I say...YES!!!

@MikeGreenwood51 5 месяцев назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen As you had never heard of him. I just say he starred in a few Columbo episodes. I believe he may also have written the episodes he starred in.

@pheerstringer 3 года назад

The guard bubble is called "Rover"

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Ah okay good to know, thanks for watching!

@TheDetailsMatter 3 года назад

They had a problem with Rover, originally. It was supposed to be a futuristic robot creature, but try as they might, every version of it looked laughable instead of creepy and terrifying. Then one day, some atmospheric scientists operating nearby let a weather balloon get away from them. It drifted across The Village, and the director fell in love with it as the exact thing Rover should be. Mobile, mysterious, other-worldly. So they junked the robot concept and made Rover a sort of living water creature instead.

@pheerstringer 3 года назад

@@TheDetailsMatter I heard something about that. Neat making of.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

@@TheDetailsMatter A most excellent use of low budget; the mother of invention. I think I remember someone saying that they bought about 300 of them. Love the camera work used to get the most out of the balloons. The constant noise is unnerving, and the ROAR effective. Reduced to pure symbolism. That robot crap would have ruined the whole series!

@bobbuethe1477 5 месяцев назад

@@TheDetailsMatter Plus, the robot kept getting stuck in the beach sand.

@traceyreid4585 3 года назад

It was filmed in the Italian Village in Port Merrion in Wales. It's such a pretty place to visit

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

That’s so cool! Definitely adds a unique and realistic element to the show, thanks for watching!

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

I've never clicked on a reaction so fast as this one, I've been begging reactors for years to look at this cult classic. Prior to this McGoohan portrayed British M9 agent John Drake an investigator for NATO in the British series "Danger Man" (called "Secret Agent" in the U.S.). It ran from 1960-1962 and then 1964-1968. In the gap the 1st series became popular, as did "The Avengers" and the James Bond films. Drake "always fights fair. He rarely carries a gun. He never falls into bed with the girl." from the back of the DVD box set. The series was shot in black and white except for the 4th series which consisted of the last 2 episodes which were in color, together they were released as a film in theaters. McGoohan announced he was quitting the series to work on a new show "The Prisoner". The white ball is called a Rover. The series is like "Buffy" in that stories can be seen as allegories for society at the time. McGoohan was in 3 episodes of Columbo. He won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for the 1st one and directed the 2nd 2. The 2nd one 'Identity Crisis' has him as an actor in a film filled with allusions to "The Prisoner". "Many call this the 18th episode of that show with McGoohan wearing a similar jacket and using the greeting "Be seeing you," according to the authorized companion book "The Prisoner Handbook." He was also in the acclaimed film "Ice Station Zebra" in 1968 with Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine and ex-NFL player Jim Brown.

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

1 point I want to make, there is debate over the running order of 2 episodes: the DVD set vol. 4 has 'A, B and C' before 'The General' but it doesn't make sense since a main character is introduced to #6 in the latter one. I swap them out.

@Silver-rx1mh 3 года назад

God I adored this series. I was glued to it when it first aired and many years later I had a holiday at Portmeirion where we stayed at the shaley next to Number 6's place. lol McGoohan is superb in this, in fact all the guest number 2's are as well, particularly the legendary Leo McKern.

@Greenwood4727 2 года назад

I remember him from rumpole of the Bailey

@kschneyer 2 года назад

I also have visited Portmeirion. It's not on the seashore, so there is a mixture of locations. :)

@pintpot 2 месяца назад

@@kschneyer It is on the seashore! I guess you went to Italy?

@kschneyer 2 месяца назад

@@pintpot No, North Wales. I just checked a map and, of course, you’re right. But I have absolutely no memory of the sea from that (very brief) visit. To be fair, it was 41 years ago, so I’m sure some parts of my recollection are spotty. (And I don’t even have pictures, because I left my camera on the train on the way to Portmeirion, and found it (!) on the train on the way back.)

@pheerstringer 3 года назад

This is my favorite TV series ever... I am so happy you are doing this. First time I have ever heard of a reaction to it.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Yeah it’s an interesting tv show concept for sure!

@michaelmcfarland1716 3 года назад

Also, Iron Maiden has a song called "The Prisoner" based on the series.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Oh okay good to know! Thanks for watching!

@OneEyedJack1970 3 года назад

Back in the Village is based on this show too.

@jamesdodds9407 2 года назад

The 80s 60s revival ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JzUCCl9YaBQ.html

@davidyoung5114 3 месяца назад

The Canadian band Rush recorded a song called LOCK & KEY, and the video pays homage to THE PRISONER. You should check it out!

@DeltasArbiter 3 года назад

I am not a number I am a FREE MAN

@SamuelBlack84 3 года назад

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

@jeremyintvland 3 года назад

Oh I love the show I’m a massive fan. And I’ve actually been to the village it’s in Wales it’s a place called Port Marion and it looks exactly as it did when they filmed the show. It’s a must go destination for any prisoner fan. It’s absolutely beautiful! And they have gift shops there with all prisoner memorabilia and stuff. Many of which i’ve added to my collection.😉

@TTM9691 3 года назад

Wow!!!! That's so cool!!!!

@somthingbrutal 3 года назад

Portmeirion ;) wanted to visit there since i saw the prisoner for the first time when it was reshown in the 80's

@ajivins1 3 года назад

@@somthingbrutal It's not far from Llandudno, you need the postcode though as it's hard to find.

@ajclements4627 3 года назад

That’s really cool, that’s one more reason to visit Wales.

@Greenwood4727 3 года назад

@@ajivins1 of course it would be hard to find its a village of spies ;)

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Thanks for a great reaction video, Jen! The Prisoner only lasted for one season, so I really hope you get to watch all of the episodes, because the finale is mind-blowing.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video! It’s an interesting concept for sure.

@ainsleyperry5192 3 года назад

Jen, Patrick McGoohan's T.V. show "Danger Man" was a huge T.V. hit in England and the U.S. When the series had finished, he approached the T.V. companies about a new show he wanted to produce. The show was one of the first U.K. t.v. shows to be filmed in colour. McGoohan only wanted to film the series over 6 episodes.But the t.v. companies wanted more so in the end 15 episodes were filmed. These day's 6 episodes would make an ideal Netflix series. After 58 years the "Prisoner" is still a t.v. show that never seems to go out of fashion. It alway's seem's to being rediscovered. Cheers, Chris Perry.

@Caileanish 3 года назад

What an interesting show to react to. Would love to see more....

@oxhine 3 года назад

Patrick McGoohan was a huge British TV star and "The Prisoner" is his signature role. You may also know him from "Scanners" and as the English King in "Braveheart". This show was a cult hit for obsessive genre viewers and filled the sort of niche that "Lost" did in recent years. I've never seen it but it's always been on a to-watch list, so go ahead with the rest of the series. The finale is supposed to be a mind-blower!

@user-il5oq5df6l Месяц назад

Let's not forget Patrick's portrayal of the title character in "Secret Agent"(a.k.a. "Danger Man")!

@anthonymunn8633 3 года назад

A little bit of trivia:the phrase "Be seeing you!" Was used by the villain Alfred Bester on the show Babylon 5 as a tribute to this show.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Ah okay good to know! I haven’t seen that show but I’ll add it to the watchlist!

@winterscribbler6745 3 года назад

So exciting to see someone reacting to this. It's referenced in so many other things I feel like it's one of those shows lots of people are aware of without knowing it

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! Yeah I didn't know this movie existed until it was recommend.

@noisecrime 3 года назад

Fantastic - The Prisoner is such an awesome show,, would love to see you react to the rest of the series. While it only has one season I don’t recall it ever meant to have more than one and things are pretty much resolved by the end. Be seeing you.

@BigGator5 3 года назад

The Prisoner, wow! Diving into the deep end of advent-guard of experimental TV, I see. Are you watching the fan favorite order? Trivia: It has been speculated that Number Six is in fact John Drake from Patrick McGoohan's earlier series, Danger Man (1960) and Secret Agent (1964). Several references to the earlier series appear, many bit players are common between them, and some believe he is referred to by name in one episode (though others interpret the dialogue differently). However you don't have to watch those shows. Although McGoohan vehemently denied that Number Six is Drake, he seems to have been out-voted, as co-writer George Markstein said yes, and officially sanctioned novels based on the series refer to Number Six as John Drake.

@dlaszacs 3 года назад

That was confirmed in a Prisoner documentary on Amazon. That's what Patrick McGoohan wanted.

@BigGator5 3 года назад

Douglas Laszacs ...Again, not at first. I'm guessing Patrick McGoohan saw the wisdom of the connection and changed his mind. I also want to again point out that this show can be watched on its own and knowing the connection spoils nothing. I would not have mentioned it if it did.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

He denied it so as not to be sued. Of course it's Drake. Leo McKern CLEARLY calls him "Drake" when they're fencing.

@junglejim3564 2 года назад

Alex Cox in his book I Am Not A Number makes the case that Number Six is not a retired spy, but a retired rocket scientist.

@ghughesarch 2 года назад

@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA No he doesn't. The script very clearly has the line "report to my study in the morning break". It is not "Drake".

@raphaelperry8159 3 года назад

The village is very much it's own character. Hopefully we'll be seeing you in the other episodes as well as this one.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Yeah I definitely got that vibe from the first episode, thanks for watching!

@ScreamingScallop 3 года назад

Some of the symbology: *The Bicycle:* Represents the spy network. Specifically a penny-farthing, it's antiquated and mostly forgotten, but some folks still keep/maintain them/it. Won't function unless all parts are in working order/compliant. *Rover (the Bubble):* In the human bloodstream, patrolling white blood cells track and eliminate foreign bodies that may pose a danger. Rover's the same concept made huge. The phenomenal theme is by Ron Grainer. He scored _The Omega Man_ and many more films and shows, but rarely got the recognition he deserved.

@davidperlowski1477 2 года назад

The really creepy thing is, that we stayed a weekend in Penrhyndeudraeth, and wandered the countryside. The Welsh are the most frighteningly accommodating people on Earth! As soon as you get within five feet of them, they flip from Welsh to English, without even making eye contact or acknowledging your presence. It's SPOOKY! That shop scene is REAL!!!

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Actually, Jen, you have seen Patrick McGoohan in something else. He was Doctor Paul Ruth in David Cronenberg's Scanners, and he was also King Edward III in Braveheart.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

He looks so different in Scanners! I would have never recognized him! And I haven’t seen Braveheart 😬

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

@@DV80s That Columbo, where he played the baddie CIA agent, THAT was a great, typical McGoohan performance. "That's my wife's favourite piece of music." "I KNOOOOW!"

@clarencewalker3925 2 года назад

He was, indeed. He was also an amateur boxer.

@michaelmclachlan1650 Год назад

Correction, in Braveheart he played Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks (height 6 ft 2in/1.88 metres) and Hammer of the Scots.

@SuStel 3 года назад

Yes! Someone is finally doing a first-time watch of The Prisoner! Do the whole series!

@billbabcock1833 3 года назад

I was 14 when this was on TV. My only recollections of the show were the big balloon and the brightly colored clothes. I did re-watch the episodes maybe 20 years ago. For late 60s it was ahead of it's time.

@taoist32 3 года назад

Almost one of the first tv shows with mobile phones.

@Trev359 3 года назад

Brilliant series, very surreal. I hope you do react to the rest. Be prepared for a very surreal experience that is well worth it. The village where it's filmed is in Wales. I believe it was modelled on a typical Italian village.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Yeah even from the first episode this show has so many layers and moving pieces. The Village looks beautiful! I wasn't expecting the Italian influence in Wales, thanks for watching!

@GuffeyYT 3 года назад

Thank you so much, Ms. Jen! I'm really looking forward to this. :)

@tomklenskjr.2491 3 года назад

Nice video, Jen!! It was so exciting, getting to see your reaction to this .. would certainly love, to see your analysis on future episodes as well .. “Be Seeing You!!” 👌

@geniusjohn8280 2 месяца назад

I didnt think time was frozen, I thought the people were standing still so it would be recognized that they were not trying to escape and have a ball come after them.

@curseoflono1982 3 года назад

I hope you end up watching the whole show. The topics this series covers was 50+ years ahead of its time when we start thinking about psychologist data points that drive behaviors, loss of privacy, and misinformation.

@ronjeffrey8641 3 года назад

If you like this I would recommend another one season wonder from across the pond called "The Champions"... not quite this bizarre but definitely ahead of it's time. And yes you are correct the bicycle is called a penny farthing.

@anthonyleecollins9319 2 года назад

A penny farthing bicycle shows up for a moment in The Truman Show -- I'm sure not by accident.

@bobbuethe1477 5 месяцев назад

I loved "The Champions!" Bond with super powers.

@JohnAShort 3 года назад

The Prisoner is one of my favourite TV shows. It's deeper meanings.... What characters and things in the show represent are more important that the surface. Later episodes will blow your mind. Welcome to the Village - Be seeing you!

@ronbock8291 3 года назад

You’ve leapt to the front of my favourite reactors. McGoohan was a genius, this show was a ‘continuation’ of his previous show Secret Agent. The Prisoner was wayyyyy ahead of its time. I feel like we still haven’t caught up to it, but we’re getting there. The last episode is the greatest episode of television of all time.

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

This show was pretty influential, there's a guy on Twitter who's handle is Secret Agent Number Six and his picture is that of McGoohan in the jacket.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Wow that's commitment!

@kevinburton3948 3 года назад

This is a pleasant unexpected surprise! The Prisoner was one of my favourite shows as a child in the 70s (which I watched in reruns). I was too young to understand it- until I was in my 20s and bought all the episodes on vhs (!!!) in the 1990s (I still have them on a bookshelf). It's very surreal at times and riddled with metaphors. The floating bubble is known as "Rover" and is the "prison guard" of The Village where our hero is imprisoned. Patrick McGoohan's later work would be playing King Edward in Braveheart- (and also Dr Ruth in Scanners) but The Prisoner is my favourite of his work. Be sure to watch the "alternative cut" of "The Chimes of Big Ben"- it has an alternate end credits sequence that gives a hint of the significance of the Penny Farthing Cycle symbol. Can't wait to see your reaction to all of them- the final episode is absolutely brilliant considering this was a 1960s mini series.

@wkanost 3 года назад

The Prisoner was a terrific mini series. Some of the episodes are icons in television history. Especially “The Schizoid Man” which is my favorite.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Nice that’s awesome! Yeah it’s definitely an interesting concept, lots of layers to this show for sure. Thanks for watching!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

I'm a 21st Century Schizoid Man ! ! ! Always will be and I am not giving up now! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@jerryhorn4697 11 месяцев назад

You said you did not recognize Patrick McGoohan. In addition to this and the British series "Danger Man" (titled "Secret Agent" in the U.S.A.), McGoohan also appeared in motion pictures: "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", "Ice Station Zebra", "Silver Streak", "Escape From Alcatraz", "Scanners", "Braveheart".

@barrettkeathley6985 3 года назад

I started to watch this on PBS years ago & loved it. Unfortunately life happened & I missed the last half of the series. When I saw that you were going to watch it I was all in. Found it on tubi & it was as good as I remembered it. Your reaction got me even more excited about finally discovering what all the lunacy is about😊👍

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

Oh, it's on Tubi? Sweet. I'll give it a look.

@Foolmoon1973 3 года назад

The car is a Lotus 7. From Wikipedia. * "The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars (initially called Lotus Engineering) between 1957 and 1972. It was designed by Lotus founder Colin Chapman and has been considered the embodiment of the Lotus philosophy of performance through low weight and simplicity. The original model was highly successful with more than 2,500 cars sold, due to its attraction as a road legal car that could be used for clubman racing. After Lotus ended production of the Seven, Caterham bought the rights and today Caterham makes both kits and fully assembled cars based on the original design known as the Caterham 7."*

@jamesdodds9407 3 года назад

If you want another recommendation The Avengers tv series from 60s with Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee as Mrs Peel and John Steed.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I'll add it to the list! Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!

@starrynight1657 2 года назад

Some of The Avengers can be as surreal as The Prisoner.

@tltatt 3 года назад

One of my favorite TV shows in the 60s was the British spy series The Avengers. The USA only got the last 3 seasons (4-6) and it was only years later that seasons 2-3 were seen in the US. The Mrs. Emma Peel seasons (4-5) are the most memorable and I would love to see reactions to them. Season 5 was the first season in color.

@stevetheduck1425 2 года назад

'Village'-like locations occur in a number of Avengers and Danger Man episodes.

@shavedbeatnik 3 года назад

I would love to see your reaction to the whole series.

@DMichaelAtLarge 3 года назад

The actor is Patrick McGoohan, who also played King Edward Longshanks in "Braveheart."

@DeltasArbiter 3 года назад

He also directed many episodes of Columbo for some reason

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I haven't seen Braveheart 😬😬

@DeltasArbiter 3 года назад

You should see it, it’s well done and McGoohan is a great villain in it, definitely a change from his Prisoner character

@michaelvalenzuela2528 3 года назад

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@DMichaelAtLarge 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen See it at once! Right this minute!

@jonanderson559 3 года назад

This is a great series, it's high weirdness. The styling is something that I don't think I've seen in anything else. If you carry on with the rest you'll enjoy it, but you'll be very very confused.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Yeah I'm very intrigued by the show, might have to limit my questions per episode haha Thanks for watching!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen W-O-W Jen I am a-m-a-z-e-d at all these films you have reacted to on your channel and more a-m-a-z-i-n-g you have found the time to do it ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@AubreySciFi 3 года назад

I love this series. Hopefully you react to all of it. It's a weird ride, but lots of fun. Patrick McGoohan had starred in a spy series before this one "Danger Man" aka "Secret Agent", so this seems like a logical progression from that, and some have suggested Number 6 is the same character from Danger Man. Also at one point when I was watching these episodes on PBS as a kid one channel ran them back to back with a Danger Man episode, so I think they saw the obvious connections too. I'm pretty sure Patrick always intended The Prisoner to be a one season show.

@phillipsuttles1926 3 года назад

there was only one series. it was named danger man in the U.K. and secret agent in the U.S.

@robertbasine8842 3 года назад

Before starring in The Prisoner, Patrick Mcgoohan starred as a secret agent in the long running series Danger Man ... so a new role as a retiring spy was a natural fit. More recently, you might recognize him as King Long Shanks in Braveheart.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I haven't seen Braveheart 😬 I haven't seen Danger Man either 😬😬

@TTM9691 3 года назад

Wow! I'm shocked to see someone do this! Awesome!!!! Oh my gosh, I'm in the middle of watching it now, so happy you're enjoying the style and the "coolness" of it all! Each week, there's a new No. 2, that's the weekly guest star, the person who has to work on him. Other than that, embrace the mysteriousness of it all, and enjoy the ride! (and style). I remember seeing this on TV when I was a really little (my parents were watching it), I thought it was the weirdest thing I ever saw. It's soooooo '67! Every year in the 60s had it's own character, especially in the second half, and this show is so 1967, which is so fun, it was such a colorful, psychedelic year, the year everything changed for good! :D (Pleeeease, do one of the great movies of 1967, and of all time, "Bonnie And Clyde"! It's practically the dividing line between "old" movies and the style we're still in to this day). You ask about other series? If you're doing British, I definitely would love to see someone do the classic miniseries "I, Claudius" (1975), or "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII" (six wives, six episodes, fascinating). Both of those are incredible!! "I, Claudius" is world famous and beloved, if you do that, people will freak out. That's 12 episodes. For the USA, I'd love for someone to react to the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" (season 5, episode 3, I believe)! I really enjoyed this! If you do more, I'll rewatch a long with you! I know you don't have to "binge" watch them, you can do them a little at a time. I put them on when I'm in the mood for something weird and fun and colorful. Thanks again, Jen!!!

@Hogtownboy1 3 года назад

See the whole series. It was done at a time when we baby boomers were rebelling against the of the parents generation. It embodies all of that and the male outfits are the summer outfits of public (private ) schools

@oilerblueline 2 года назад

Yes, by all means, do the remainder of the series. Always fun to see someone's first exposure to this wonderfully complex series. Personal aside: My wife and I honeymooned in The Village.

@michaelthorsen1478 2 года назад

A little history on Rover (orange alert). At first, the Village's chief enforcer was meant to be a futuristic white robot, but every thing they tried looked like something you would have seen on Doctor Who. Overlarge, clumsy, festooned with blinking lights, slow moving. Try as they might they just couldn't make the stupid-looking thing *_terrifying_* enough. One day, a team of meteorologists hard at work up the beach launching weather balloons let one get away from them, the wind took it right through Portmerion where The Prisoner was filming, and as it bounced and rolled through a shot, the director fell in love with it. It was eerily similar to what had been described in the script, surreal but menacing. All it would take to turn it into Rover would be a few sound effects added in post. They sent someone to offer to buy it from the scientists immediately.

@bobbuethe1477 5 месяцев назад

Plus, its treads got stuck in the beach sand.

@donsample1002 2 года назад

Patrick McGoohan had previously starred in a spy drama called _Danger Man_ in which he played British secret agent John Drake. It is a long time fan theory that No 6 is Drake, but everyone involved in _The Prisoner_ denies it...despite numerous parallels between Drake and No 6. It might be because if they ever admitted it, they'd have to pay the creators of _Danger Man_ royalties.

@coreyhendricks9490 3 года назад

Sure Jen, Go For It

@brunobrauer6301 3 года назад

It was a cool show, I was still a kid and I enjoyed it very much.

@anthonymunn8633 3 года назад

Definitely do the whole season!

@steved1135 3 года назад

wow. Never ever expected to see someone doing this show. Fabulous. Growing up, this show began my fascination with offbeat/atypical TV, film and books. Amazing.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! Yeah it's definielty an interesting show!

@musicgarryj 3 года назад

Absolutely love your reaction! PLEASE do the whole series....you'll have a very interesting journey! Especially looking forward to seeing what you make of the final episode: it caused massive controversy when it was first shown. There was a very inferior US remake of this show in 2000, don't bother with that! As usual, British originals always totally outshine lame American copies! lol Subscribed. :) Btw...if you like groundbreaking/thought provoking British stuff, you really should react to the 1968 movie "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick. The special effects were decades ahead of their time!

@DarthRushy 2 года назад

I'd love to see episode 2 of this! The series is fantastic

@warpig4942 3 года назад

My "bad movie" favorites list. 1. Death Race 2000 (1975) 2. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) 3. Surf Nazi's Must Die (1987) 4. Barbarella (1968) 5. Sharknado (2013)

@darrellpowell6042 3 года назад

Probably the most complicated and fun TV show ever!

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

It has a lot of layers for sure, thanks for watching!

@darrellpowell6042 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen I subscribed as well. Very good hosting the review. I live in England, take care.

@tremorsfan 3 года назад

I remember being on vacation in Wales and we visited that village. It's called Portmeirion. I think that grocery store still sells souvenirs from the show.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Nice that's awesome! Hopefully it brought some tourism to the town, thanks for watching!

@anthonyleecollins9319 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen The location wasn't mentioned in the credits until the final episode. Until than, if I recall correctly, it just said: "Filmed on location in the Village." And, of course, that was decades before there was Google. :-)

@emurphy42 2 года назад

“I don’t think he’s gonna make it to the beach.” Well, he makes it to *a* beach… I’ve had that march music (Radetzky March) as my ringtone for many years now.

@maxmarkus6202 2 года назад

Thank you so much for reacting to this magnificent show. The ball is Rover. Please do the whole show! It is beyond compare.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 года назад

Ah okay good to know, Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@maxmarkus6202 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen very much. The final episode is worth the wait. At the time people hated it so much that McGooghan was physically attacked in public.

@totomomo18 3 года назад

Wow it is great you are doing retro shows like Buck Rogers and The Prisoner. You can also do The Time Tunnel another classic tv show that to my amazement only had one season. The lead actor played the bad guy in Brave Heart and he also played in the horror movie Scanners

@jerryhorn4697 11 месяцев назад

11:25 - 11:35. The expression on Jen's face is absolutely hilarious and priceless! 😂😂😂

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

"Goodnight children everywhere!" 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@juliataylor2623 2 года назад

My dad watched this with me and had guessed the ending of the series, which was a profound one for me as a 10 year old but not for my dad who had guessed it

@tookitogo Год назад

I first watched The Prisoner back in 2000 or 2001 when a college professor lent me the DVD box set. Netflix now has a 2017 documentary about it, by someone who had snagged a rare interview with McGoohan back in 1983. It’s called “In My Mind” and I highly recommend it!

@James-nl6fu 9 месяцев назад

The car is a lotus 7, only available at the time as a "component kit-car" the purchaser must build for themselves. He explains this in the episode, "Many Happy Returns." The location is the uniquely charming Portmerion, North Wales. Patrick Mcgoohan had just resigned from his very successful role of 'Danger Man.' Intriguing review, good luck 👍

@gfoyle69 3 года назад

This series is totally unique. I hope you react to all it.

@CaptainNemo1701 2 года назад

The village is Portmerion in North Wales on an estuary. It's exceptionally beautiful to visit and wasn't revealed as the show's location until the final story. Of course it's famous for being the 'village' in the Prisoner, but was also seen in McGoohan's previous show, Danger Man with a story set in Italy but productions of the day had no budget to be able to actually film there!. So Portmerion stood in for an Italian village. I think it was also used in a Dr Who story. It's a regular little rabbit warren of pathways and lovely views over the estuary.

@davidlally592 8 месяцев назад

Indeed: Dr Who ep- The Masque Of Magradora (1976: Tom Baker era)...BCNU...

@kevinjn2300 3 года назад

Great to see someone reacting to The Prisoner! Me and a couple of mates went to Portmerion (where it's shot) when we were youngun's. Hope you check out the rest.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Nice that's awesome! Yeah I'm very intrigued by this show, lots of layers which I like. Thanks for watching!

@peterampee-kleisius 3 года назад

The car is a Lotus. The lead actor is Patrick McGoohan and he was co producing Columbo, and i think he was the murderer in Columbo a record amount of 4 times in different roles.

@reesebn38 3 года назад

From what I remember this show was planned as one season. Patrick McGoohan was a great actor. He was in "Scanners". Jen a great show that was only 1 season is "Space Above And Beyond"(1995). A very cool Sci-Fi show created by the 2 best writer's from The X-Files. It was ahead of its time! The show creates a very cool universe. The female lead is one of the most badass characters in Sci-Fi lore. There is an episode where there is no dialog called "Who's Monitoring the Birds". Just brilliant!

@tofersiefken 3 года назад

I actually own the DVD box set of this series. I was introduced to it as I was studying Broadcast and Film Production at the University of Iowa. A real cold-war era nod to James Bond style spy stories. Visually it looked more like a mildly psychedelic (BBC) version of Dr. Who.

@misterprickly 3 года назад

Rover started out as a placeholder for a much different form of security, but it did well in test viewings. "I am not a number" was a response to the UK adopting the social security card. This was the original "Trust no one" show. To this day, people are still confused by the end of the show... But I get it!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

Please could you explain the last episode of The Prisoner because I didn't get it! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@misterprickly 2 года назад

@@andrewhillis9544 The island is his mind and everyone in it is either an alias he's portrayed or an aspect of himself... Even the women are based on female agents he's worked with. After the big reveal, all that remains are the four main parts of the hero. The non-conformist, the company man, the servant and himself. The first to leave is the non-conformist, who goes wherever his feet takes him. The second is the company man, who goes back to the office. The only one to remain is the servant, who serves... Himself! "who is *number one?*" "*You are* (comma) Number Six." The answer was in plain sight.

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

@@misterprickly That's B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T Explanation And The Only One That I have heard That Makes Any Logical/Rational Sense ! ! ! Well Done For Working It All Out ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@mijmijrm 3 года назад

i wonder if the big white blob here is a distant cousin to the smoke monster on the Lost (2000s tv series) island. the late 60s were a good period for UK tv weirdness .. eg .. it's worth checking out the Emma Peel era of The Avengers. Intro to The Avengers tv series (1966) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-10QW3Az1FTw.html

@user-il5oq5df6l Месяц назад

"The Prisoner " and "Secret Agent" were both produced by ITC Entertainment, a British-based TV and film production and distribution company that was a subsidiary of the Associated Television Corporation Limited(ATV). Both companies were headed by legendary impresario Lord Grade.

@lisathuban8969 2 года назад

I was a small child when this came out in the 1960's. That ball scared the crap out of me!

@PaulWinkle 3 года назад

Wow interesting choice. Yes this series is very special, unknown to most people and very far ahead of its time. Patrick McGoohan however is a very known evil character in series. 3 times in Columbo as far as I remember and he was the evil guy in movies like "Silver Streak" with Gene Wilder or Escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood. (both worth a look)

@Dej24601 Год назад

The “Village” is Portmeirion in the north of Wales. They had used it as a location in several episodes of his previous series Dangerman/Secret Agent. Fans of The Prisoner still have get-togethers at Portmeirion. The creator of the place was trying to make quasi-Italian architecture.

@somthingbrutal 3 года назад

its definitely worth watching, there was a remake of this made in 2009. Patrick McGoohan was in scanners as Dr Ruth

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I didn't realize there was a remake, was it was only for one season as well? Thanks for watching!

@andrewhillis9544 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Watch Patrick McGoohan as enigmatic & mysterious spy David Jones in Ice Station Zebra! You will not be disappointed and very good subject matter for you to react to! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@daveofyorkshire301 Год назад

The Prisoner is actually a sequel to Danger Man, also staring Patrick McGoohan...

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 3 года назад

My favourite TV show ever. Pure Pop Art. I actually own several Prisoner T-shirts. One of the few things I geek on. You look like you would dig the whole series. After, and ONLY after, you can start looking up interpretations.

@jeremyintvland 3 года назад

They want to know why he resigned as well as other information. But the cool thing about the show is you don’t know if the village is British or run by some communist state. Also you don’t know who in the village is also a prisoner and who is a guard. As if you were at times you can feel very disoriented by just how crazy it all is. But I really do hope you continue to watch the series I believe there’s only 16 episodes and the final episode is the kookiest episode of anything you’ll ever see. Thanks so much. Amazing job as always! I think I might join your Patreon, apart from supporting you to also watch the full episodes of these and some of those cheesy movies you just got out of your DVD haul. Lol

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Fun Fact: Series star Patrick McGoohan previously starred in a ITV television show called Danger Man(Secret Agent in the US), and many fans have speculated as to whether his character in The Prisoner is the same as his character, John Drake, in Secret Agent, but McGoohan has since stated that they are, in fact, two totally different characters.

@dngillikin 3 года назад

Like the Avengers before it, Danger Man was not a BBC show. It was a product of one of the commercial ITV regions.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

@@dngillikin Ah, sorry. Thanks for clarifying.

@dngillikin 3 года назад

@@44excalibur No problem. Lots of people make the automatic assumption that any famous cult British show equals the BBC. From the mid-sixties to about the mid-seventies Sir (later Lord) Lew Grade's ITC used to aggressively market export commercial British programs to the US and a few were picked up by American networks for airing on prime time. Others had syndication deals.

@tookitogo Год назад

The Prisoner’s creator envisioned it as a 7-part miniseries, the network wanted something like 27, and they compromised on 17 episodes. And yes, the real world village of Portmeirion was a “character”, in that it planted the seed for the concept.

@jeffwerth2707 3 года назад

With "Firefly" winding down, "The Prisoner" is a good short (17 eps) series to review. The white balloon things seem to be security - they are called "Rover". E10 "Hammer into Anvil" is my favorite. Its the '60s so expect wackiness. Love the super colorful costumes - being British it gave be Beatles "Yellow Submarine" vibes. You have met #2 (they change that person often). The question is "Who is #1". Enjoy

@tungstenkid2271 Год назад

In 'Arrival' when No.2 said "I expect you're wondering what you're doing here?", McGoohan delivered the classic line "It had crossed my mind"..:)

@Emburbujada 3 года назад

I am not a number! I'm so glad you reacted to this. It's one of my favourite shows =) I hope you find the time to react to the whole series. There's a lot to analyze and a lot to enjoy. Do take into account it's the sixties, so expect some absurdity and some psychedelia XD Did you notice Ethan's "Be seeing you" in Buffy? ;)

@MrBigPicture835 3 года назад

This show is a (sequel?) to another TV show starring Patrick where he played a Secret Agent. It is also one of the most expensive (per episode with adjusted dollars).

@SamuelBlack84 3 года назад

That's minus payload, of course