The Prisoner
It occurs to me that the opening credits to The Prisoner are deserving of being at the top of the previously linked Onion AV Club’s list of the “most fitting television openings”, if not some other list of the best television openings of all time.
The above movie is just the first part of The Prisoner’s opening sequence. The actual opening credits take about five minutes to get through, including a bit at the end where Patrick McGoohan’s character (Number 6) shouts the ever-famous “I am not a number, I am a free man.” That’s five whole minutes of an hour-long program devoted to setting up the premise of the show. Compare that to today’s shows — like Lost or the recently-defunct Alias — which often forsake their opening sequences entirely.
Phew, television titles get me going. Be seeing you.
