Wasn't big ben chiming in error used as a signal in one of the early James Bond movies?
Thunderball.
Yes, I think Big Ben struck 13 times at midnight in Thunder Ball.
I am only doing this from memory, so I could be wrong on both accounts.
"The Prisoner" noticed a "time displacement error" and realized he was being set up, yet again.
And Thunderball was played on TBS today,...must be a unified coalition of goverments answering a threat from SPECTRE again...