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...intro had H&V behind it on the soundtrack. Or something like that...couldn't think how to word it but kept on typing.

I do not understand your post... :p

Yes I heard it. It was the BWPS version and it mixed between the released version and an instrumental one. It came on AMC earlier as I was giving candy out for Halloween. Cool.

The Prisoner? The spy who quits and wakes up on an island? Number 2? Number 6?

Somewhat related, but i haven't seen it - The Beach Boys version of Heroes and Villains and the Hawthorne version of Ol Man River pop up on the soundtrack to The Fantastic Mr. Fox.... anyone seen it/care to add?

Cam must have seen a promo, the show is to be aired on AMC mid-November.  A six-hour mini-series, I believe.  Yes it is a remake of the Patrick McGoohan series, now set in the desert  instead of an island, with Ian McKellen as the only Number Two.   McGoohan OK'd the idea but did not participate before he died.  The rights to the remake are owned by IBC, I think.  Looks good but it's  hard to say if the new series will carry forward McGoohan's twin concepts of a super-government debriefing spies for its own ends, and that Number Six is ultimately a prisoner of himself.

Coincidentally, this evening I just enjoyed the great Columbo episode "By Dawn's Early Light", featuring Mr. McGoohan.  And...coincidentally...I didn't realize it until the ending credits, b/c if you blinked you woulda missed her...Karen Lamm.  The episode aired October 1974, the same month she and Dennis met.

Yeah Sir, that was a shining moment in TV history, wasn't it?

McGoohan and Peter Falk were long-time buddies.  McGoohan appeared in several Columbo shows/movies, and directed some of the TV movies in later years.

The Prisoner was an exceptional show.  I don't think the current tv producers could do something on the same quality, even if money was not an issue.

Well well well.

Saw episodes 1 & 2, still not sure I like the show overall and I doubt it will equal the original for, well, originality.  Looks real good but the jury's out. Did not hear H&V, but in one climactic scene in the desert they use Brian's "Water Chant" from BWPS*.  So I guess the producer or director guy or someone like him is a fan.

*oh, I forgot, and Sloop John B too.  thanks, oranjuly  Also: Episode 3 does use "Gee/H&V" from BWPS while Six is being strapped down to be taken to the "Tunnels".   And supposedly the close - where they do their own take on "who is number one?" - uses "I Know There's An Answer".

The only show or movie I've ever seen Peter Falk in is The Princess Bride. Am I ignorant of television and movie history, or am I just way too young to remember The Prisoner and Columbo??

H&V was in one of last night's episodes.

I'd say, if you've never heard of columbo then you must be very very young (and baffled by The Heretical Don's icon), as Columbo was on for ever. I swear they were still making them in the 2000's!

They made at least one or two episodes, another classic show.  The Hollywood Bowl episode with John Cassavettes was a great one.

Haha, yes... thank you! Columbo started as a one-off TV movie in 1968 or thereabouts. It was very successful. So a series was developed, with a brilliant idea: after 5 minutes you saw the murder, and knew who the killer was. The unraveling of his or her method and finding the final proof took up the rest of the show. It is to the eternal credit of the Levinson/Link team that it always worked, and famous guest stood in line to play the bad one... Johnny Cash was one of them.

I don't really know when the first series stopped, but the programme was resumed to great effect around 1995. Now a few shows lasting 90 minutes were shot each year, and they were just as good as the old ones.

I've heard of Columbo, but I've never seen it, or even knew what it was about until reading this thread.

Peter Falk was hilarious as Professor Fate's (played by Jack Lemmon) evil sidekick in the 1965 comedy farce "The Great Race". 

Just to add...the show referred to in the title of the thread is the most boring thing I've watched in a long time.  It was cool hearing the Smile music but when the climax of a show is in its soundtrack, that means trouble.

Nice typo. I never knew our lovable Don was heretical. :)

He was also excellent in, of all places to find him, Wim Wenders' German classic "Wings of Desire".

Let's not forget Peter Falk's excellent work in the movies he did with John Cassavetes.

Last thing I heard was that Falk is suffering from Alzheimer's. So he won't be solving any complicated cases anymore... one of the true greats. I rank him with someone like James Garner. Or James Stewart. They got that special something, I call it humanity in spades.

i get around is also in the movie.  i haven't seen it yet though.  Little saint nick and wouldn't it be nice also show up in the boat that rocked, or pirate radio if you live in the states.