‘Fall Out’ The Prisoner (starring Patrick McGoohan)

Kenneth Griffith features in two episodes of the cult television series The Prisoner. One was ‘Schnipps/number 2 in ‘The Girl who was Death’, and here, he plays The President in the 17th and final episode, ‘Fall Out’. Kenneth had a long and close friendship with Patrick McGoohan. In these roles Griffith wrote much of his own dialogue.

[@grahamblack1961]

The public were so angry about this episode McGoohan had to go into hiding.

[@luisvillalobos6373]

He probably was harassed in the streetjust like number 6 in the village.

[@Tater-Chuck]

​@@luisvillalobos6373UNMUTUAL!

[@SteveBrant55]

What a spectacular final episode! I remember watching this series on American television when it first came out. The ability to resist authority was a primary objective in my teenage life at the time, because my father was a domineering and very abusive man. This show was one of the principle reasons I was able to remain my own person in the face of his abuse. Thank you for making this episode available here.

[@Bootmahoy88]

Yes!!!!!

[@w5winston]

:)

[@metaljacket8128]

Mood.

[@markmurphy8078]

🎉😂❤

[@werdna9006]

Was amazing the secret (until the final episode) of the actual village where the outdoors scenes were filmed. I had the great chance that my wife treated me for my 40th birthday by staying a long weekend in Portmeirion. Fantastic and atmospheric place expecially the evening when all the tourists have left.

[@davidnelson7149]

You are all the 'prisoner' of your own mind. Everyone is number one.

[@ITILII]

Remember what Morpheus told Neo...The Matrix is a prison....for your MIND !!!🤔

[@davidnelson7149]

@@ITILII Quite so. One must hide in plain sight. If the matrix knows you are aware, it will destroy you. Dissent will not be tolerated, free thinking is a sin.

[@benlesterofficial]

The greatest episode of the greatest TV series of all time. And this restoration is superb - it's worked absolute magic with the audio. This is a work of art!

[@Tonywization]

Agree a great episode but also up there with it was 'Hammer into Anvil'.

[@johncrichton4341]

Du muss hammer oder anvil sein...@@Tonywization

[@ITILII]

The Beatles were huge fans of Patrick McGoohan, and for a very nominal fee allowed All You Need is Love to be used on the program - the ONLY time The Beatles allowed their music to be used for any commercial purposes. Patrick McGoohan was a genius, way way ahead of his time...and as far as predictive programming: the ones wearing the black and white masks (showing that the activities they represent can be used for good, or evil) such as entertainment, activists, education, sports, broadcasting, etc. which are the ways the powers that be use to control the world......now, hear the Word of the Lord !!!

[@Dragonblaster1]

​@@Tonywization Hammer Into Anvil is IMO the best because it’s all Number 6’s plan all the way through. My second and third favourite episodes (not sure in which order) are A, B & C and Schizoid Man. Both show 6 being fooled, but then realising the fact and turning the tables, But I was and am an absolute addict to the whole series, ever since the rerun on ITV in the 1970s. People don’t realise that Fall out is a masterpiece because it’s an allegory nobody gets: Number Six is Number One: his own worst enemy.

[@Dragonblaster1]

​@@johncrichton4341Sorry, mate: it’s “Du muss Hammer oder Amboss sein.”

[@DemonicAdj]

This episode is the reason "All You Need Is Love" is on my gaming playlists.

[@randolphvance8889]

In the speech that the former Number Six gives, while the assembly drowns him out with "I, I, I," , Six is explaining (practically shouting and screaming) WHY he resigned. Yet it's all now a moot point, everyone running the Village understands now why Six resigned, it was so that Six could be an individual again and not be a number within the bureaucracy of being a secret agent. By resigning from being a secret agent, Six earned his place in the Village. By resisting the Village, Six earned his freedom.

[@Gwaithmir]

I was saddened to learn that Angelo Muscat died penniless of pneumonia in 1977. He was only 47 years old.

[@Greaseball01]

I gotta say this show is unreasonably well filmed for a TV show from the 60s

[@damiencrowley2506]

London looks nice on this.

[@ThePatente]

I'm Canadian. I saw this in 2010. Oh! Wow! And that final..... Damn!!!!!!!! Love that.

[@ChatGPT1111]

The acid sure had a high ph back in the day😂

[@sseim5654]

It's true. This is the greatest example of television art, second only to Ernie Kovacs, who will always rein supreme. What does it for me is just the fact that all this craziness was the result of full production; sets, props, direction, location, the works. Real work went into this. What balls. Really terrific.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

This episode of this iconic program has never been surpassed. A ground breaking moment in British television. Unlike the rubbish we see today. None of it comes anywhere near it, psychotically, prophetically or realistically. A work of genius, only understood by those who watch the previous 16 episodes. Watch them, what you see is happening RIGHT NOW.

[@ilokivi]

Many thanks for this uploading. Haven't seen this in full since Channel 4 re-broadcast the full series in 1984. One of the most imaginative, extraordinary and thought-provoking creations ever to grace the silver screen. Blessed be the memory of Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Alexis Kanner, Angelo Muscat and Kenneth Griffiths. Be seeing you.

[@mikellewis7939]

I've been to Port Merrion. I recommend all those who wish to resign or get sacked to go. It's near Porthmadog in North West Wales

[@js2749]

Haha, you’re right Mike it’s a brilliant place 👍

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

Nah. I don't want to be stamped, filed, briefed or debriefed etc...

[@PCCphoenix]

31:49--As soon as Six starts speaking, the jurors start chanting and clapping, faster and faster, louder and louder, until he's completely drowned out by the noise! What a farce of a testimony.

[@Rich6Brew]

Sorry, I couldn't hear you due to all the chanting and clapping.

[@James-nl6fu]

Interesting 🎶 musical choice of "All you need is love ❤️ "the Beatles" by the executive producer. Also the prominent part played by Alexis Kaner

[@patthewoodboy]

wow , brilliant and thought provoking

[@Emulous79]

Griffith was great in this! What a strong, wild, bizarre final episode!

[@grahamday1582]

Still a brilliant 👏 series

[@davidhaley845]

This Series pushed so many boundaries and was off the wall and scale for quality . Every Sunday we as a family would watch this fixated. People criticised the final episode but it was perfect in keeping with the zany theme of the series. Without doubt for me the best of all time and still watchable today that's quality !

[@sidensvans67]

I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.

[@robdagnallschannel]

All you need is Love!!!

[@aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930]

Be seeing you, number six.

[@PitchSkullBlack]

26:37 the piece of music used here was also utilised as the theme music for the fourth series of "Out of the Unknown".

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

11:40. Who let that Dalek in?

[@MrLentiscais]

When that butler went through that electronic front door and then the black hearse drove by, I then realised that he would always be a number and never be a totally free man.

[@23Daves]

32:24 - is there another moment in the series where Number 6 seems as silenced, broken and confused as this? And yet he's "won"! Very interesting and revealing, even if I do constantly change my mind about how.

[@TimParker-Chambers]

The only one I can think of, is in Many Happy Returns, when he realizes he's overflying The Village, and the pilot turns and says ''Be seeing you...'', before ejecting him so he has to parachute back to The Village... I have to admit, I laughed hysterically the first time I saw it, thinking just how furious he would have been with himself for how severely he had let himself get pwned by them at that moment 🥴🥴🥴🥴🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@lilblackduc7312]

Pure art! This entertainment is so beyond the comprehension of the current Vidiot/Cell Zombie crowd. Thanks for this one...🦉

[@Drforbin941]

We are all Prisoner(s)

[@MikeGreenwood51]

You need an old 1967 penny or before with a port culus on. You flick it high up till it reaches it's maximum height then watch it fall. When it lands you see which side is facing up. If it has the Port Culus showing (Prison Gates) you flick it up again till the Port Culus is face down. Then you are 'free'. But you mustn't then pick up or touch the penny. Your choice. Port Culus or Freedom.

[@wolfontheloose2772]

when LSD and writers get together and party and some one says yes its a tv show

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

And Dennis Potter's THE SINGING DETECTIVE" which would appear some years later - owes a debt to "Dry Bones" used so powerfully, and comically here!!!

[@TimParker-Chambers]

As much as McGoohan was the headline actor, most of this episode truly belonged to Alexis Kanner... I always wondered why his name appeared in a box in the opening, but I suspect I'll never find that out unless I can reach McGoohan on a Ouija Board, and even then, I'd bet his answer would only be ''Why do *you* think? Be seeing you...'' 🥴🥴🥴🥴😖😖😖😖 I'll say this; it's pretty clear that he was cast because he was such a great actor 👍👍👍👍

[@davidnelson7149]

In order to function in an ordered society, one must accept a certain level of slavery. You choose how much slavery you will tolerate.

[@beagle5]

That is it👍🏻

[@KimSenior]

I choose none!

[@TimothySchulting]

it turns out dropping acid is not the answer to anything.

[@beagle5]

All the signs in the series, hand gestures , give more explanations to what is going on. Very well put together , I enjoyed and understood more of what is going on👍🏻Patrick really ( I understand ) did not know how to end the series , and a lot of his followers to this programme were not happy. I myself thought it a weird ending. But Hey , there are many things that cannot be given away in real life👍🏻 To tell😮

[@trioritydev]

Yes, apparently quite a few people phoned into to their local TV station to complain. It is a pretty weird ending, although technically in keeping with the series. It's also pretty poignant too - the demise of Rover, No. 72(?) not able to get a lift, No. 2 going back to government and leaving No.1/6 on his own

[@benlesterofficial]

@@trioritydev and of course the automatic door at the end!

[@albert6307]

I think the ending leaves me with more questions than answers, which I'm actually fine with.

[@TimParker-Chambers]

@@trioritydevIf I had to guess, I would say that he drove off to do what he had been trying to do when they first gassed him: Go on vacation. I'm sure I heard/read once that that was all he wanted to do, and the reason why he resigned; to go on vacation.

[@trioritydev]

@@TimParker-Chambers It's certainly possible - although could well be in for a shock when he returned

[@ianfraser6161]

The Prisoner gets into his Lotus 7, his butler enters his townhouse. The door opens just like ones in The Village did.

[@TimParker-Chambers]

I believe that movement and sound on his door, was signifying what the Eagles made a line of in 'Hotel California'; ''We are all just prisoners here, of our own device...'' He may have escaped The Village, but merely escaped one gaol (back)into another... As much as Patrick McGoohan's style of performance has always rubbed me the wrong way, I will say this: The man was a visionary, and he saw the world for what it truly was then, and what it's become now 👍👍👍👍

[@davebartosh5]

Brilliant series...fallen on today's dummies unforunately.. Also how could you kill evreryon's favorite Number Two!! Glad they fixed that.

[@robertkincaid]

Recently been shown on Legend TV and where Number 6 meets number one and see there is no Number One , just a reflection of himself and at the end the complete big build up the series ending

[@KimSenior]

I’ve worked on all those Jukeboxes!

[@ColinPhiz-ml4lt]

We have take off

[@Rich6Brew]

From 47:21 - National uproar.

[@sirhenryb3197]

most funny part

[@johnnydavis5896]

Any idea the name of the music that starts at 43:40?

[@octaviusfooks7194]

Apparently ‘Return of Number 2’ - try Shazamming it

[@bombonalvarez3802]

LSD, leisure and irony.

[@edwoodsix6]

why did you resign...

[@Riutanharju]

"That would be telling." 🥸

[@edwoodsix6]

@@Riutanharju nice...

[@winstoncorrigan4309]

When I was a child = This mad series sent me round the bend = it’s so bad it’s good = and still I haven’t a clue what’s going on 😂

[@stealingbacktime590]

28:45 - 29:10 He nearly employed the "5 Whys" in this episode, a system implemented by Toyota to get to the root cause of a problem. He asked "why" 4 times. Basically splitting the difference between the 3 and 5 whys approach. They basically tried to placate him into being a figure head instead of telling why they felt justified in doing such things to individuals. I wonder if the method was intentionally used, probably not. The system was apparently created in the 1930s, became widely used in the 70s and adopted by lots of businesses. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys

[@RockmeBaby-ne9kw]

Because i had to direct a new serie for television called The prisoner... Thats why i resigned...

[@PlanetSledge]

Why is this edited?

[@condor2279]

why did he do it??

[@Emulous79]

16:47 Dance Number!

[@groover5524]

Plum cuckoo. ! But brilliant. ! 😀

[@steamgent4592]

Was always a interesting show but the creators where on some serious drugs to be sure…..hahahahaaaaa

[@TehEMan]

Keep it to yourself and you'll receive nothing more.

[@5slabs]

Leo Mckern was great.

[@nevittwoods1730]

Nice scammel lorry

[@fahmyayoob5775]

This is what?????

[@LouiseBrooksBob]

Correct.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

I think McGoohan lost the plot somewhat in the last two episodes, particularly the finale to this otherwise inspired series.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

I've read several different versions of what led to this episode being how it is. It seems that the behind the scenes reality is even more obscure than the episode itself.

[@benlesterofficial]

I disagree completely - I think the last two episodes are absolute genius and the best of the entire series!

[@dangermann7460]

He didn’t have an ending and cobbled this together.

[@frankshailes3205]

@@dangermann7460 The "ending" was the previous episode, where all the answers were given. This is just the afterparty as they fall out.

[@Foul_Quince]

How did they get the rights to use The Beatle's music?

[@davidlally592]

Music editor on the Priz (Eric Mival) paid a fee for its use.

[@Hal9000ize]

Not to mention The Beatles loved The Prisoner

[@Foul_Quince]

@@Hal9000ize Do you have a cite on that?

[@Hal9000ize]

@@Foul_Quince From IMDB: According to Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, the Beatles were to be in a movie similar to "The Prisoner", written and directed by Patrick McGoohan, but the project fell through. McGoohan was able to convince them to allow their song "All You Need is Love" to be used in the final episode; one of the only times the band permitted their music to be licensed for television.

[@Foul_Quince]

@@Hal9000ize Thank you.

[@anthonyclowes7331]

I like beans!

[@mattosullivan9687]

yep 6 6 6

[@marcelbeaty8671]

Its the eu . Patrick left to be not a number or be ruled ...get it?

[@stevedemarest276]

Sorry, but the final episode was silly and indicates that the crew behind "the prisoner", which had a promising start, was completely out of idea by the end.

[@cybernit3]

I feel like a prisoner and I don't like it!!!!! Maybe the Lord will make this Universe feel more like heaven the hope in HELL HALALUYA - TAO!

[@Jenalgo]

you religious nutter.

[@uranusimploding9830]

Someone mustuv been on LSD when they wrote and filmed this .....makes NO sense

[@monteceitomoocher]

Don't think it was ever meant to, mcGoohan had got himself boxed into a corner, there was never going to be a storyline that brought all the loose ends together so, they went a little mad and made this!, btw, the end scenes of sixties London before the madness are poignant in the extreme to an old boomer like me, i could weep for its present decay. Happy times.

[@jagmarc]

It's not meant to make sense and poke fun at anyone trying to analyse.

[@mrgobrien]

it is generally accepted that he merely swapped one prison for another - the one that we live in.

[@splod44]

So what number are you ? figure that out then it will make sense

[@timpea9766]

The series went from surreal, satirical drama to absurd, noisy and disappointing pop video.

[@stephenyoung1788]

Wrong.

[@stephenyoung1788]

Right.

[@cliffmashburn983]

Last four episodes of The Prisoner sucked. The two-part ending episodes were unwatchable.

[@WhaleManMan]

Hater alert

[@cliffmashburn983]

@@WhaleManMan I saw the show in the 60's loved it, but the last 4 eps were a big disappointment. IMDB comments are 100% in agreement with me.

[@rekababa6671]

I guess I am just not "hip" enough to understand this rubbish 😜

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Watch nothing but 'Z Cars' for a year. Then The Prisoner will make more sense.

[@WhaleManMan]

You're just jealous