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Author Topic: The Prisoner/Danger 5 - Triceratops 4 August  (Read 7026 times)

Offline Daeothar

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2018, 09:55:17 AM »
See; I knew I connected the dots correctly!

I just Wikipedia'd The Prisoner and realized there are a great many references to it in popculture.

For instance, I distinctly remember either an Iron Maiden song and/or a nineties Hardcore House song (what can I say; my musical tastes have always been... diverse ::) ); it could be either or both, that most likely had a sample from the series: 'I'm not a number, I'm a free man!'

And thanks; now I'm going to have to find a way to watch the series... lol
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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2018, 10:28:04 AM »
Theres a DVD boxed set, or no doubt you'll find it online somewhere.

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2018, 11:11:19 AM »
Be seeing you!

I get it; it's another quote!  lol




+++EDIT+++ Aaand, I nabbed the 50th anniversary DVD Box off Ebay for a very small amount... ;) And my apologies to Grant for taking this thread Prisoner... :D
« Last Edit: July 26, 2018, 12:04:38 PM by Daeothar »

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2018, 01:10:27 AM »
Very cool.
I watched a lot of the TV show back when I was in High School.
Need to check out DVDs of the show.
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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2018, 07:19:02 AM »
I watched it when Channel Four showed it in the 'eighties.

Very strange, not that I think that it affected me in the least.

References turn up in many places, Babylon 5 for instance.

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2018, 07:26:18 AM »
I haven't the faintest to be honest...  lol

All I went on here is a faint recollection of seeing some guy lying on the ground, being squashed by a white sphere of 3m or so in diameter. It most likely was a miniature I saw here on LAF too...

https://www.ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/589/osCsid/48utfpbah88mt2smesg3761qt4  ;)

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2018, 07:56:25 AM »
See; there it is!  lol

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2018, 07:59:51 AM »
What a wonderful project.
Lovely brushwork and use of colour.
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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2018, 11:15:01 AM »
The village was also made up of half timbered houses with immaculate gardens, right?

Portmeirion was more post-modern stucco 'Baroque Italian'; just what you need for the Aber Iâ ('Ice Estuary') in Gwynedd.  lol 

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2018, 12:18:07 PM »
Portmeirion was more post-modern stucco 'Baroque Italian'; just what you need for the Aber Iâ ('Ice Estuary') in Gwynedd.  lol

Very optimistically thought of as Mediterranean...  :o

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2018, 12:57:57 PM »
I visited Portmeirion with the family as a kid and was struck by how weird it was. I found an enormous dead jellyfish washed up on the beach. That was years before I first saw 'The Prisoner' and looking back it did look like a deflated sphere! :o
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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2018, 01:43:12 PM »
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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2018, 01:44:03 PM »
What a wonderful project.
Lovely brushwork and use of colour.
 :-* :-*

Huge kudos from a master! Thank you!

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2018, 05:26:54 PM »
Fab project. Look forward to more pics!

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Re: The Prisoner - Villagers and Mokes - added Terrain 25 July
« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2018, 05:47:50 PM »
I visited Portmeirion with the family as a kid and was struck by how weird it was. I found an enormous dead jellyfish washed up on the beach. That was years before I first saw 'The Prisoner' and looking back it did look like a deflated sphere! :o

You can stay in Portmeirion village. Its apparently even wierder when all the tourists leave. Something I must do!