The Pri50ner

    It had never occurred to me before, but the summary of ‘Once Upon A Time’ at the outset of ‘Fall Out seems extraordinarily long at 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Indeed I am in agreement with music and film editor Eric Mival, in that it was an unusually long summary of ‘Once Upon A Time.’ Generally such a summary is a few seconds only, about 30 seconds. However seeing ‘Once Upon A Time’ was originally first screened on Scottish television {part of ITV’s television regional network at that time} on January 1^st, and ‘Fall Out,’ for some television viewers here in Britain, wouldn’t be finally screened by Granada on March 1^st one month later, perhaps they thought that was too long a gap, and viewers of ‘the Prisoner’ might have forgotten ‘Once Upon A time’ by that time and thereby needed to be reminded. But film editors Noreen Ackland and Eric Boyd-Perkins wouldn’t have known at the time that it would be a month before Granada, part ITV’s regional network, would screen ‘Fall Out.’ So was Patrick McGoohan and David Tomblin simply playing for time by the addition of that three and a half minute summary, in order to eek out the final episode? 

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