I should imagine that anyone who went to a circus in the 1950s saw a lion tamer. I remember seeing a beared lady looking miserable* but that must have been at a fair.
Most people posting here weren't born in the 1950s, hence the question.
Freak shows with sheep with extra limbs.
A piglet with one head and two bodies pickled in a jar.
I seem to recall that some museums have such things on display. Natural History seems a likely place. I know a farmer who breeds pigs and finds all sorts of oddities most years. All pigs destined for bacon are castrated - I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
No sows? What a bore!
Yup, the lion is probably covered in oil and on fire now :-)
Not the living freaks.
Sounds like the very last few minutes of the final episode of The Prisoner. If you can put up with You Tubes commercial interruptions .
Still no idea of what it was about, don’t think Patrick McGoonan could answer why either.
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There exists something of a remake, which contains echoes of the original but a quite different plot, with a fixed Number 2. It wasn't well received.
Thank you. I don't recall seeing that.
Yes, but "The Prisoner" - in its entirety - was transmitted in 1967 (and eneded before Christmas). Scenes filmed in 1968 or 1969 could obviously not be part of it.
One of the most irritating series ever. When it finished I felt cheated
It is alleged that the episodes were originally broadcast in the wrong order anyway
It was repeated some years later, with some episodes out of order compared to the original transmission. As I recall, there wasn't actually much continuity in the series apart from the beginning and end. Many episodes could have been shown in any order, most were self-contained. Most episodes had a new Number 2.
I remember a beginning, and the last episode, but no end, as such.
The last episode was some sort of clearing up exercise. But either way, ATV would have had a hard job showing any episode a year or two before it was made.
Sure you aren't thinking of Disney?
I remember being taken to a circus while on holiday. I would have been
5 or 6 at the time, so 1953ish and it would have been an east coast resort, a coach journey from London. I have a vague memory of a man in a cage with a lion, but I wasn't particularly interested in that, I was still fascinated by the trapeze act that had preceded it.
And bears in chains (c.40 years ago). Seeing that put me off circuses for life.
Around the same time the Bern bear pit was not an attractive sight. I believe it has been updated since then.
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