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- This is the most chilling playback performance of The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" EVER; as it was featured in the final episode of the cult TV series "The Prisoner".
Incidentally, it was one of the few examples at that time of a popular song being licensed on a TV drama.
Honestly, when the music starts playing, it's one of the greatest moments of television I've ever seen.
Undeniably true.
Used by special permission of The Beatles who were huge Patrick McGoohan fans....nobody else ever got authorization to use Beatles music
One of the best moments in the history of television
To me, this music with this scene was creepier than any kind of original scoring anyone could have come up with. Amazing.
Epic, surreal, awesome.
When the music starts it's amazing.
Mcgoohan was a genius.
This is one of my absolute favorite tv moments I've ever seen. The look on 6's face is worth it.
The Prisoner and the Beatles - two timmeless classics together
The Beatles were big fans of Patrick McGoohan and gave permission to use their music in The Prisoner. In those days, nobody else ever received such permission
Bond mixed with Kafka, Orwell and avant-garde, simply the best show ever :-)
indeed
Also add a little touch of terry gilliam
Love that there is an Al Jolson placard in the jukebox.
The 1, is always the sacrifice.
McGoohan was doubtless determined to blow the remainder of his budget on this final episode -- note that the number of "performing extras" he hired -- i.e., those who actually have to do something on set and take complex direction, not just serve as background filler -- set him back a tidy sum for the day. He didn't want to hand any cash back to the BBC, so he didn't mind a pricey one-shot licensing deal with The Beatles' distributor. And the cast's wrap party must have been epic.
The BBC had nothing to do with this series. And if they had, the cheapskate BBC would have ruined it for sure
Please notice that in two of the jukeboxes you can see covers of two Beatles albums: SOMETHING NEW and THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM, both American issues from Capitol Records. Given that this was a British series, I always found that fact to be quite interesting.
I think the parent company of the network that aired The Prisoner also had significant stake in the Beatles publishing
I'm in my twenties, i wish there were shows like the prisoner around these days. i still remember when i first discovered it and the feeling when watching the first few episodes... just can't describe it.
Yak me too
The entire episode is in fact the culmination of the search for a higher conciousness. A man has three centres, Instinctive, Emotional and Intellectual.
Put them together accordoing to Ouspensky's methodology. No exagerated claim. No advertising.
SocietyOfTheSpectacl Nah, it's just 6 going completely mad and being confronted by his own ego to finally break him. But instead it liberates him and destroys the prison of his own mind....only for him to fall into it again at the end.
ProjectFlashlight612 true up to your last conclusion.
He is liberated at the end.
+SocietyOfTheSpectacl No, McGoohan specified that he had the door of the house at the end open by itself, signifying that he wasn't really free still.
Jorbz150 makes no sense.
Jorbz150 Indeed, one can never truly be free from oneself.
Number 6: If one struggles and does not relent, not even a bit, not any at all, they may find...it's all in the mind, Luv!
If someone asked me to sum up the 60's I would show them this video.
Probably some of the best trolling that the history of television has ever seen! :D
To think, this was originally shown on prime time television in slots that are now occupied by endless 'Talent' and 'Reality' shows. Watch & weep!
Have to watch this again from the beginning.
the last two episodes are so good
Even the last chapter of this series was on February 4, 1968 (four months before the premiere of the film, Yellow Submarine (June 17 of that same year).
For me, it was a surprise that this song, not only on TV, but before its premiere in the Beatles movie.
Thank you so much, brother!
They are all good
Glad to see this here!classically creepy!
This is the genesis of Prestige TV.
the song also plays when they are killing their way out of there
Thinking of going to Portmerion next year for the Prisoner Bash. Anyone been? Any good?
Monumental
I love the work McGoohan did for this whole series. It's also the only lasting cultural artefact I know of from that same era that pointed to the hollowness of the song "All You Need Is Love". That never rang true, and its authors certainly never lived up to that thought. No, a lot more than love is needed.
Awesome video.
I think the wax figure is a man called "John Drake" from the T.v show "Danger man" that Patrick Mcgoohan played in, I think it is saying that Number 6 is John drake.
I think that's why the mannequin was painted in gray tones. Danger Man/Secret Agent Man was a Black and White show.
Is there a recording of Angelo Muscat's voice?
big prisoner fan..no other show had moments in it that fucked my mind up like this..like when he walks into the room and they are all clapping..the one guy was moving his hands in a very bizarre manner....it smacked my mind funny .....very strange..but i still like it...
Geniale, geniale, geniale!
Hasta ahí venía todo muy bien. Pero el final del capítulo es desconcertante y sabe a improvisación.
WELL COME
Oh, yes. Generally about the use of the song check the Wired article 'The Prisoner: An All-Star Appreciation'. Of course, you raise a different point, the recently common foolishness of demanding over DVD releases separate licensing to the one used originally for TV broadcasting. It could be argued that the song is integrated in the audiovisual work (it's not, for example, used in the opening credits, as it happened with the Sinatra song in Married with Children, which was replaced).
all jukeboxes shown still available on ebay!
Wurlitzer. Seeburg
The name "Discotheque" on the Seeburg U100D is interesting. I thought Disco was a 70's thing.
So #6 was actually #1 all the time?
That would be telling.
In "Many Happy Returns" the street number of his house in London is 1. So yes, they were subtly telling us that.
Yes, he was, but to be more precise, we all are.
fascinating
What the hell with the room with the hangers and Mcgoohan's mannequin ?? It never shows up again after
C est ses vêtements d'homme libre, il redevient un individu.
It cost the production team £48 to get the rights to this.
The Beatles were big fans of The Prisoner and allowed their song to be used....extremely rare
Who says, "we thought you would be happier as yourself?" What does that mean? Who is the wax figure?
They acknowledge he is no longer #6.
Those spooky,hooded,gemini ghost costumes are great. Very Darth Sidious like. Wonder why they've never marketed them for Halloween?
would buy
Dans l épisode "double personnalité" le code prononcé par le 6 est "gémeaux"
By that, do you mean that you think everyone was so desperate to be an individual they were chanting "I", or do you mean that the crowd FAILED to understand what individuality meant, so they started chanting "I" in unison
or something else? think it's interesting you think the series can be viewed through that lens
They were berating No. 6 for his instinctively individualistic perspective on how to govern. Their perception is that good governance is an inherently collective activity.
This is cult!
I love the implication that this is diegetic
Anybody notice they had a copy of an Al Jolson soundtrack album on one of those jukeboxes (imagine the days when people would listen to an entire ALBUM?) where he is in blackface. Surely that isn't just a coincidence given the whole black/white faced characters later. As for the Beatles song, I wonder how much they had to pay for the rights to include that. While it wasn't the group's most recent hit when the show aired (they had released other singles in the meantime) it probably WAS their current hit when the episode was conceived and filmed.
I never noticed that the observer puts on the mask and becomes "identification" before.
@strangemoosh I know the feeling.
Chilling?! What nonsense. It is an affirmation of life. 6 sitting next to the Butler always brings a tear to my eye. It is also amazing how it reflects the culture. I test you- name a popular song from NOW that will be still revered in 50 years time...
It was such a fortuitous choice to use the Beatles. It doesn't date the scene at all. Almost any other band of the era would have done.
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@@ianrhodes6928 Yeah that's not true
The Butler is not his friend. The Butler not only serves, but observes and to an extent controls, the person to whom he is assigned. Note near the end of the episode, as No. 6 interacts with the policeman on a London streetcorner, The Butler observes him from afar, waiting almost like a loyal dog for his next instructions/for No. 6 to take action. He enters No.6's house, but as soon as No. 6 is disposed of (as he will be), The Butler will -- seamlessly and without a visible sense of loss -- begin serving No. 6's replacement. The Butler thus represents the permanent bureaucracy -- what we might today called the Deep State.
PJW sent me
Trump arriving to the Capitol to nominate himself Speaker of the House.
Wow, he's apparantly actually going to do it now.
Since this is English I’ll say visually the Squid Games were influenced by these 1960 ‘quid’ games…
Wah-wah
@strangemoosh. You might try Joss Whedon's short-lived TV series "Dollhouse", even though the concept was diluted especially through the first six episodes by the meddling of FOX TV executives.
PSYOP!
have you found yourSELF yet ?
il y a une place libre dans ce tribunal,celle qui représente "sécurity" ,est elle offerte au numéro 6?
C est vrai, j ai pas remarqué, bizarre 😏