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It's on Living tonight at 9. Well worth a watch, although the end of the last series did go a little odd.

Mandrake wrote:Apart from The Prisoner and Patrick McGoohan being 80, I just received this from Hawkins Bazaar

A celebration of 80 years of Jelly Babies!
Jelly babies were born at the end of the First World War, although at the time they were christened Peace Babies. They went out of production due to shortages during the Second World War and weren’t revived until 1953, when they were renamed as Jelly Babies.

Happy Birthday JBs!!!

Hopefully making a return to tv this week to defeat Davros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUblzkLwOjU

Back on topic of The Prisoner, the new ITV remake is in full production and, quite by chance, I was able to watch some of the filming last month in Swakopmund, Namibia. It's nothing like Portmerion but has it's own unique, at a weird tangent, architecture which made Portmerion a great location so the new version could be well worth watching when it's broadcast sometime in 2009. A lot of the sets were specially constructed but blend in so well with the existing buildings that some local residents said wish they were made for real!

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gerard.joannes/164swakopmund2.JPG

http://frysingerreunion.org/1/africa/swakopmund04.jpg

The Prisoner DVD box set has been around for long enough that I picked it up at my favourite secondhand game-and-DVD shop. Not exactly for pennies, but cheap enough to afford.

When I was active in Mensa, I was a member of the Prisoner SIG (special interest group). Still have my Number 21 badge.

Colin used to be a bartender in the pub where Patrick McGoohan was a regular, at about the time he was thinking up The Prisoner. He remembers him as a withdrawn and quiet man who could put away staggering quantities of alcohol.

What the Smeg?

Easter 2009. Red Dwarf, the return to earth.

A two part story reuniting the original cast of Lister, Cat, Kryten and Rimmer, specially commissioned by Channel Dave as a prelude to a season of classic episodes.

What does anyone know of the rumor that Number six was meant to be Danger man?

What? The same actor, playing a guy with what might be a very similar name (if you trust dodgy lip reading and a dodgy possible slip-of-the-tongue), with the same boss, driving the same car and resigning from the same job?

The same guy?

Nah.

Patrick McGoohan always said the two characters were not the same person altghough there were a lot of similarities and Danger Man used the same locations on a number of occasions. A product of the time, the Cold War, Bond novels and films becoming very big business, the rise of the anti-hero agent Harry Palmer and so on. All as confusing as the final Prisoner episode!

Mandrake wrote:Back on topic of The Prisoner, the new ITV remake is in full production and, quite by chance, I was able to watch some of the filming last month in Swakopmund, Namibia. It's nothing like Portmerion but has it's own unique, at a weird tangent, architecture which made Portmerion a great location so the new version could be well worth watching when it's broadcast sometime in 2009. A lot of the sets were specially constructed but blend in so well with the existing buildings that some local residents said wish they were made for real!

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gerard.joannes/164swakopmund2.JPG

http://frysingerreunion.org/1/africa/swakopmund04.jpg

Due to be broadcast in the US in November, in the UK a little later on. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyRznd6T ... L&index=17
for some preview shots.

Be seeing you.....

That's excellent news. Cue a torrent of carefully argued reasons on sci fi boards about why it's a pale imitation of the original by sad people sat typing at 4am.

I'm a die-hard original Prisoner fan but, having seen a bit of the filming last year, this version will be fine by me - well different and that's exactly the right approach for The Prisoner 40 years on!

Beware! As an avid fan of the Avengers (Mrs. Peel and all that, not Captain America, Thor & Iron Man), I was very excited to hear that a film version was being made starring Uma Thurman and Sean Connery. With those two in it, thought I, what could possibly go wrong?

themagicwand wrote:what could possibly go wrong?

Everything ...

New promo video for The Prisoner has been released, plenty of location shots, the Village Map is huge and Rover, well he's the same as ever but bigger! See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqQsaK5KpQ

That looks pleasantly creepy. I can't wait!