The Girl Who Was Death, is a tale of danger, of "daring do." Mister X is a born surivor, the girl a born killer, the daughter of Professor Schnipps who sees himself as Napoleon Bonaparte, although he would have made a perfect "little Hitler!"
"Goodnight children................... everywhere." are the fianl words uttered by No.6 as he looks into the camera at the end of the episode. But it's not just the three children in the nursery obviously, nor is it just to No.2 and No.10 No.6 spun a blessed fairy tale to, it's also the television viewer! Patrick McGoohan once said that the Prisoner is not a meant as a childrens television series, yet look at all the childish content in the Prisoner, the use of nursery rhymes for one. Because if nursery rhymes are not being recited, there is the musical composition of nursery rhymes being played. I first watched the Prisoner in 1967 at the age of twelve years of age. But I know people who were as young as seven when they sat watching the series for the first time in 1967. And to be perfectly honest, I have come to the way of thinking, that the Prisoner is best viewed through the eyes of a child. What's more, children often have a better understanding of the series, than adults!
Goodnight Children.......Everywhere!
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