Number 6 leaves the Watchmaker’s shop, and makes his way along a cobbled path, through an archway, crossing the chess lawn he goes up the steps and across the central piazza. In this scene Number 6 can clearly be seen wearing the charcoal grey suit he wore in ‘Arrival.’ And so clearly this scene was cut from the opening sequence of ‘Arrival,’ because it is clearly obvious that in ‘Its Your Funeral’ Number 6, wearing his arrival suit is on his way to the cafe, not the Green Dome!
And also in the episode ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,’ Patrick McGoohan is in this episode more than you first might imagine. The Prisoner can be seen driving his Lotus 7 through London on his way to his home in Buckingham Place - more cut film footage from ‘Arrival's’ opening sequence, kept and later used as stock footage in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,’ which gives the impression that you’re watching the opening sequence again, twice for the same episode!
‘Fall Out’ also contains stock film footage from ‘Arrival's’ opening sequence. After the Prisoner drives away from No.1 Buckingham Place, the Lotus 7 is seen turning onto Mill Bank from Westminster Bridge, passed the Houses of Parliament, and so it is quite clear that the Prisoner is driving towards the turn off to Abingdon Street car park, as he does in the opening sequence of ‘Arrival.’
Had all the extra stock film footage had been used, it would have made the opening sequence extremely long……too long!
How about extracting and re-editing all those scenes so one could get a better picture (literally) of what was cut? Has it ever been made, do you know? - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno,
DeleteThat's a good idea you have there, and perhaps there is someone out there who has not only the time to do it, but also the where with all to carry out such a project.
I don't know whether or not it has been done before, perhaps not. However, the 90 minute version of ‘Arrival’ may well have contained the full version of the opening sequence, and so seen when that version was once screened in Canada. I don’t know anyone who had seen it, but I know someone who had a 90 minute audio tape of ‘Arrival.’ Whether or not he still has it today, I don’t know, because I lost contact with him some years ago.
BCNU
David