Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's been 35 years or so since I watched it. This talk has piqued my interest, though. I remember liking the series, even though it was quite brief. I just noticed that I can buy all 840 minutes of the episodes on DVD for about $39. Jeffery On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > I only seem to remember "All you need is love", but I may be mistaken, > wasn't Dem Bones sung in the courtroom scene? > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 07.01.2011 22:13, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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