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I just completed a rough cut of a prequel mini-series for Patrick McGoohan's 1960s masterpiece The Prisoner (a spy attempts to resign and wakes up imprisoned in a beautiful place called The Village). By using episodes of McGohan's spy series Danger Man/Secret Agent with moments from The Prisoner, I have edited six episodes that tells John Drake's journey of disillusionment that led to his fateful resignation. This has been quite a labor of love as I always enjoyed the hints of The Prisoner that were already found in Danger Man/Secret Agent. Special thanks to asterixsmeagal and Cero for giving feedback on a couple of very rough first attempts. Here is a clip from the second episode:
Here are the Danger Man/Secret Agent episodes I used and the changes I made.
Episode 1: Yesterday's Enemies
Original length: 48.50
New length: 50
Changes:
- Took out Drake's arrival to see the admiral in his Mini-Cooper.
- Replaced it with the opening credits of The Prisoner when Number 6 drives in his Lotus 7.
- Replaced the anger and resignation from the credits with Number 6's entrance from Many Happy Returns.
Original length: 51.39
New length: 49.00
Changes:
- Took out Drake's surveillance.
- Replaced it with Number 6 being tracked by the Undertaker (played by Peter Madden who also plays Hobbs) from Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
- Cut some of the burning on the ID picture and replaced it with the typewriter, and warehouse from the opening of The Prisoner. I also brought in Peter Madden as the Understake again from Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
- At the end overlapped the dialogue with Hobbs and Drake with the same shots as the former warehouse and Undertaker using gas.
Original length: 48.50
New length: 50
Changes:
- Replaced Drake's driving in the country with the Lotus 7 from Many Happy Returns.
- Took out Drake waking up from his nightmare to see that he is being taken care of by ambulance workers.
- Replaced it with Number 6 waking up in his flat using footage from The Prisoner episode Arrival.
- When Number 6 looks out his blinds in Arrival, replaced The Village with the hearse driving away outside of his flat from the opening credits of The Prisoner.
- Ended with Number 6 getting connected and hooked up while asleep from The Prisoner episode A, B, and C.
- Overlapped sound of Mr. Lovegrove and Drake laughing.
Original length: 48.50
New length: 48.50
Changes:
- Mostly kept this one in tack. Just changed the credits to Village font like I did the rest of the episode.
- Added Drake recognizing the police chief as a fellow agent named Cobb (as they are played by the same actor.) Took the whisper of Cobb's name from Arrival and added it when the police chief gets a surprised look.
- Also added a small conversation between Cobb and Number 6 in Arrival to the moments when Drake is being shown surveillance footage.
Original length: 48.50
New length: 90
Changes:
- Blended Korshi and Shinda Shima into one feature-length picture. (I know that they were released this way, but I could only find them as two separate episodes.
- Made them black and white.
- Brought in the underwater cold open from Shinda Shima in as the beginning.
- Added a hint of Rover under the water at the end of the cold open.
- Trimmed long scene when the flowers were explained as the "humor" did not seem to work.
- Brought in the airplane announcement from Shinda Shima into the end of Koroshi to blend these two episodes.
- Brought in Rover as the reason John Drake needs to jump from a speed boat by using Rover from a speed boat scene in Free For All.
- Have Drake look over when being taken to the enemy layer and notice two jukeboxes from Fall Out.
- Have Kenneth Griffith see the strange moment when it appears like Rover is being worshiped from Free For All before he dies.
- Ended with the flashing lights from Schizoid Man to imply that parts of this episode were induced.
Episode 6: The Man on the Beach
Original length: 49.50
New length: 57.26
Changes:
- Opened with the same elements from Schizoid Man, this time showing Number Six in bed with flashes of Portmeirion.
- Have Drake try to find Portmeirion through a painting that he finds. This is taken out of context from the pilot episode of Danger Man that takes place in Portmeirion called View from the Villa. (Drake has a transatlantic accent for these early episodes.)
- Drake takes his own pictures of this village of his dream and shows them to his superior officers who question what side he is on and his potential to defect. This scene is taken from Many Happy Returns.
- After Drake is ignored, dismissed, and almost killed by the lack of action of his superiors, Drake resigns. Of course, this is taken from the opening credits of The Prisoner.
- Made his waking up in The Village in the original color (like a Wizard of Oz effect.)
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