16 June 2011

Prisoner inspired band, 'Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling', has released their very first music video for the song 'Episode 1 - Arrival'.

It is a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening sequence of The Prisoner. The project took 11 days of shooting and nearly 2 years of planning to create. It was shot all over Boston and New England with an eye to replicate the London/Wales/1960s landscape of the original.

Lead singer/drummer Sophia Cacciola took on the enormous role of Number 6 - see the classic Lotus 7 replica racing around downtown Boston as the story of the unnamed protagonist unfolds as she angrily resigns from her intelligence position only to find that she can’t get away quickly enough to avoid being gassed and chased by a giant white ball.

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31 July 2009

We have taken a look at some similarities and also some differences between the new Prisoner and the 1967 original.

We have a set of 8 comparisons. You can see the first 4 here, register on the site to see all 8.

The return of Rover (the white blob) was one of the most fiercely debated issues for the new show. As we can see below Rover has moved from the seaside to the desert, still a frightening prospect for Number 6!

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