Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the producers of "The Prisoner" were ticked off about being canceled, and turned the finale into a farce. Weren't they dancing to the song "The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone"? Jeffery On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo - great stuff! > > They've just started re-running the surviving episodes of the first series > of the Avengers on German TV (one of the culture channels, no less) the > episodes with Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and the first appearances of > Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale - all in glorious black and white. > > The same channel recently also showed the still rather weird "The > Prisoner". And I still don't understand the finale:-( > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 07.01.2011 21:45, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> Now, that's better. There's a certain degree of cold war coolness to it. >> Do you remember "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."? >> >> Jeffery >> >> On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >>> Jeffery asked about the cigarette subminiature camera. >>> - - - - - >>> The camera is an Echo 8, produced by Suzuki on and off after 1951. It >>> looks >>> like a Zippo lighter of that era and actually works as a lighter. It had >>> a >>> fixed focus lens and took a mini roll of 8 mm film. Allegedly it was >>> intended to be a spy camera or at least a topic of curiosity. There is >>> one >>> on display in the CIA museum although there is no evidence that it was >>> actually used in spying. I recall the price being in the neighborhood of >>> $50 >>> or $60 rather than the $2000 currently being asked. >>> Here is a listing of the camera: >>> http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Echo_8_and_Camera-Lite >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information