Where Do All The Citizens Go?

    I can visualise where all the citizens are, from the time No.6 woke up one morning in Many Happy Returns to find the Village deserted, to some little time after he set sail aboard his sea-going Kon-Tiki style raft. And again, in time for No.6's unceremonious return to the Village in the same episode. They were drugged! Fast asleep in their cottages, and those who were not, those who work for the Village, kept well out of sight until No.6 had left the Village.
   Yet what about some to the later episodes of the Prisoner, such as Hammer Into Anvil and Once Upon A Time? There are views of the Village when no-one seems to be about. Here are three such examples from Hammer Into Anvil.

   When the bomb disposal team are on their way to retrieve the Cuckoo Clock, thought to be a bomb left by No.6 at the door of the Green Dome.

    When No.6 is carrying a Pigeon in the box through the Village, towards the woods.

   And finally, No.6 looks out of the the French door to see who is about. There is no-one out and about, certainly not in the central Piazza anyway! And one other example, comes from Once Upon A Time.

    And when No.6 leaves his cottage, he encounters one citizen and whom he enquires as to what his number is. And again, there are very few citizens out and about in the Village. Perhaps it's the time of day, tea-time perhaps. If there is one thing which stands out in the later episodes of the Prisoner is, the number of shots of the Village with very few citizens in them, and at times none at all, when in the earlier episodes there is always a profusion of Village citizens out and about.   Be seeing you....if you happen to be out and about the Village that is.