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Subject: [Leica] Cigaret lighter camera - The Prisoner
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:02:33 +0100
References: <AANLkTimu3t79pUstDbEBkZGJephrgvCThnCxOXwWP0xP@mail.gmail.com> <78F19199-E1E6-4835-AF64-0964CD91B6D9@gmail.com> <4D277EF7.4080608@gmx.de> <238FC5E9-75BD-4A9D-801C-F92B733F2B94@gmail.com> <4D2793A4.2030000@gmx.de> <1E9A59FF-29C5-44CB-AAE5-87FEF451CB8B@gmail.com>

17 45-minute episodes in all.

Enough to keep you going through the cold winter 
evenings:-)

:-) Will classic TV series one day achieve the status 
of classical music? (dicuss):-)

Douglas

On 07.01.2011 23:43, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
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