User talk:Tbrittreid/Archive/2007/April

The Prisoner - Rover
Pleased someone's reading it at least! I wouldn't take the White and Ali book as absolute gospel though it's amazing the footage remained hidden for so long. The full home movie shows a full-sized props man seated in the Rover machine. It may have been abandoned because the exhaust from the engine discharged inside the shell and would have gassed the driver, who was lying almost on his back inside, unable to see out. In additin, it worked fine on a flat surface but not on the cobbled roads, steps and steep hills of Portmeirion (this information is from a video on the production of the series produced by Steve Ricks in the 90s and including interviews with surviving cast and crew - ditto for the information on the opening sequence shooting). Ghughesarch 01:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The Prisoner: Exterior filming not in Portmeirion
Hi

http://avengerland.theavengers.tv/studios/mgmblot.htm shows other shows filmed on the exterior sets at MGM Borehamwood (the first pictures are their generic "continental street" set, as used in "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling") Note that the building with the dormer windows in the background of the third picture (from "Girl") is the same as the one in the eighth picture (from a production I don't recognise), with the trees and wall removed.

The bottom set of pictures show the opposite side of the "square" from the Recreation Hall in "Schizoid Man", which also appears as the exhibition hall in "Chimes of Big Ben", and in "A, B and C" as the entrance to the Paris street where Six encounters "C" (which is the location for the middle set of photos on the Avengerland page, and appears in "The Girl Who Was Death" band "Forsake", filmed from different angles).

The "Square" area (which was an entirely separate set about 100 yards from the "continental street" one) was re-dressed as the western town in "Living in Harmony". The building on top of two arches in those bottom photos is visible in "A, B & C" as Madame Engadine's car drives through it, and is the sherrif's office in "Harmony".

Part of "A, B and C" (the fight with "A") was also filmed on the remains of the French chateau set from "The Dirty Dozen", which stood about 250 yards away from this location. Steve Ricks produced a replica "Map of Your Village" in the 1980s with, on the reverse, an aerial photo from 1966 showing all these sets standing on the MGM backlot - despite film or TV appearances they were all false fronts held up by scaffolding. I'm not sure what production they were originally constructed for. I suspect Carraze and Oswald may have had "exterior" translated to "outside", which mean slightly different things.

I recommend Max Hora's three booklets, The Prisoner of Portmeirion; Portmeirion Prisoner Production; and Village World (all now out of print but often on ebay) as good sources of Prisoner trivia of this type. Also http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/ which has excellent Prisoner location spotting pages of its own ( such as http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/locationsguide.htm and http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/mgmbore.htm, and it's worth checking the link from the latter to the page about the precise location of the "Harmony" lynching tree - http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/harmonytree.htm - to see just how seriously some people take this sort of thing), and good links. But then, I have a feeling all this should be on the Wikipedia Prisoner page, not just here.

Ghughesarch 00:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Pilot

 * Nice to know someone else is aware of this. But, sorry no, I was unaware of your post.  I had The Prisoner originally in VHS and later, the A&E DVD collection.  I did not purchase the original CoBB tape whaen I saw the alternate tape was available.  The production note insert specified that it was the original series pilot; not ARRIVAL. --Jason Palpatine 04:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Shattered Visage
Hi, Ted, Ireact here again. You say it's not immediately clear that the text piece is written by someone in British intelligence -- but the heading on the text piece is that it's a message for Mrs. Butterworth of "MI5". That is the English Secret Service, isn't it? Unless MI5 can refer to something else? Anyway, I was wondering, if you do properly reread Shattered Visage, do you think you might go over to that entry and take a look at it? It'd be good if more than one Prisoner fan made a pass on that. --Ireact 23:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:3O
Hi. I've removed your request for an opinion since it was in the wrong place and format. If you want to try again, please list it at Third_opinion and follow the instructions closely. Thanks, Sandstein 05:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I did follow the instructions that I found, though they were somewhat on the vague side, at least as far as format was concerned. But I will use your link and see what happens. Ted Watson 17:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)