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PRISONER MUSEUM
There are very few surviving props from The Prisoner, or original items and so it has never been possible to create a Prisoner museum, although many people have asked about one. Several original items are on display in the Portmeirion Prisoner shop and this webpage is an attempt to create a 'digital Prisoner museum'. The 100 images below are in groups: 1. badges & bicycle designs 2. call sheets 3. costumes & props 4. TV cue cards 5. documents 6. Ron Grainer score manuscript pages 7. KAR 120C photos 8. letters 9. memorabilia 10. publicity photo & cards 11. Jack Shampan set design paintings & sketches. Filming photos are omitted as there are so many production or amateur shots.
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There were two main penny farthing bicycle designs used in The Prisoner. Badges were white or black and sometimes the bicycle emblem faced left, unlike the ones above. Only one Number Two character had a black badge and this had a white numeral, which no other badge had (episode Many Happy Returns). Badges had a metal pin on the back, held by sticky tape and so the pin could become detached. |
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Below are two Tally Ho newspapers seen in episodes and to the right is a depiction of all the Prisoner scripts. The working titles for some episodes were different from the final ones. A. B. and C. was Play in Three Acts, or 1, 2 and 3. Checkmate was The Queens Pawn. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling was Face Unknown and Once upon a Time was Degree Absolute. Below the Tally Ho newspapers are four television cue cards used before screenings. |
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There was not much merchandise arising from The Prisoner and so this section shows some additional items from the time. The three US Ace paperbacks are shown first. Next is the Dinky Toys Mini Moke catalogue picture and model. The 1967 advance copy and release copy of the Ron Grainer Orchestra 7" vinyl record is next, plus the sheet music which was published to accompany the release. The next row shows the US St Louis Post TV magazine, the UK comic TV Tornado and the US TV Guide, below which are the UK TV Times, North American Telegram TV Weekly and UK TV World (two editions). Below is the signed McGoohan publicity photo, which was then reproduced as a card with printed message and finally as a Prisoner publicity card. Lastly, the many Shampan set design paintings and sketches appear, plus the Christmas card he designed for the actors and crew. | |
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