This week’s guest is Luke’s dad Alan.
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By Hook or By Crook – Episode 13 – Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
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Delightful episode, and loved hearing Luke’s Dad providing context. I was also lucky enough to have a Dad who was enthusiastic about the Prisoner, and who enthused about the series long before we had had a chance to see it back in the 1970s, when we were growing up. We actually visited Portmeirion long before we had seen the Prisoner, which meant that I had the exact reverse experience that many Prisoner fans have — I knew Portmeirion intimately before seeing the whole series on screen (in 1984, on Channel 4).
I am with Luke’s Dad and kind of love this episode. I love Nigel Stock, and I love exploring the Prisoner’s back story. It’s not as exciting as Many Happy Returns in that respect, but it’s still pretty great.
That camera shop was still a camera shop well into the 1980s — on Southampton Row in London. Back then, I regularly attended Lewis Carroll Society meetings in London, and we would retire to a lovely Italian restaurant afterwards on Southamption Row. I would always make a thing of walking by that camera shop and celebrating this episode! Sadly it’s no longer there.
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