Thought For The Day

  The Chessboard was on the lawn at Portmeirion for about a week in September 1966, and was taken up as soon as the chess match scenes for Checkmate had been filmed. The white squares of the chessboard certainly made their mark on the lawn when the panels were removed, by leaving paler coloured squares. When the Prisoner walks across the same lawn in Arrival, and in most opening sequences, the alternate dark and lighter squares are clearly visible. Therefore, this Arrival shot was filmed after the location shoot of Checkmate, and at the end of the location shoot at Portmeirion.
   Another way to look at it might be, that a chess tournament had been staged sometime before the Prisoner's arrival in the Village, and that they had only recently removed the chessboard!......Well its possible.
I'll be seeing you.