dougo is The Man! - Troyer Sound & Vision!

[Moor Larkin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gPztzkNMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4psHOzo-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4A4Q_4bUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZWI35jDXCA

I hope they stay there long enough for me to get to a computer with
sound.....

[tommacfearsom]

Hello Moor

This is an absolutely SUPER find !!

BCNU
Tommacfearsom

[Moor Larkin]

This is an absolutely SUPER find !!
> BCNU
> Tommacfearsom

Praise be to dougo!

I have listened (and read) the Troyer interview several times. It is
amazing how much more 'convincing' Patrick McGoohan's answers are when
you can *see* him giving them. He was evidentially telling it like it
is/was. I have seen comments over time by people such as, "Oh, he just
said all that about seven episodes because he wanted to look clever"
and similar dismissive critiques..............

Yeah, right...........

He just seems so nice too (no surprise there). Even when faced with
those 'epic' questions he remained courteous and willing to allow
others to see what they wanted to see. The only time he seemed to get
annoyed was with the interviewer. I loved his reaction to the idea
that, 'Advertising was good and made people think'............ it was
quite informative to witness his quick-wittedness and willingness to
say the unsayable.......... Did that programme segue to a message from
the sponsor, I wonder? Or was Canadian public broadcasting ad-free?

;-))))

[djmcgoohan]

The program did not segue to a message from a sponsor.
TV Ontario has always been broadcasting without advertisements and
continues to do so today.

Anyone looking to see a slightly better quality copy {say someone who
does not have sound on their computer :-) ...} please feel free to
send me an e-mail.

[tommacfearsom]

On Apr 3, 3:26 pm, tommacfearsom <tommacfear...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello Moor

I am transferring my post about The McGoohan 7 to here as it neatly
reinforces PMcG's comments from the Troyer interview and his choice
of words such as The Prisoner being a "serial" of 7 episodes which
was the standard language of the day for a "limited series".


The quote from PMcG comes from an article in the Washington Post Nov
19,1969. The article originated in the LA Times a month earlier from
an interview by film critic Kevin Thomas.


Here is the quote concerning The Prisoner:


"The Prisoner? Well that was an experimental kind of thing for
television. Originally,I wanted to do only seven episodes,but CBS
wouldn't buy it. I stopped at 17. I had had enough.


"I was astonished that it got a sort of faithful audience--better than
I expected. We never thought of it in terms of an audience of 25 or 30
million."


The Washington Post, Nov 19, 1969


I have typed the quote verbatim. So far as I can tell this was PMcG's
first comments in the States about The Prisoner after the second run
of the series here concluded in September of 1969.


The quote about "The 7" is the earliest I have been able to find. The
article contains some of PMcG's plans for the future such as an
attempt to film Brand in Monument Valley in the U.S. The article runs
about 700 words.


Yours Truly
Tommcfearsom

[valerie m.]

you can also use vixy.net to grab it, saves it as an .avi file for anyone who's interested :D

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