The Therapy Zone

   A B and C explores flaws within the characters of the authorities. Number two, artfully played by Colin Gordon, is assigned the task of extracting information from Number Six. Number Two is painfully aware that if his attempts are not successful, his job-perhaps his life-is on the line. It's a bureaucratic problem. Number two must answer to a hierarchical system that has little patience for failure. Number two understands all too well the tentative nature of his situation and is willing to take extreme measure in the protection of his job. Although we will meet several Number twos who are "afraid of their master," this is one of the few who appear willing to risk Number Six's life in order to extract information."

    Oops, there's been another cock-up! This despite the Prisoner being technically innovative and generally ahead of its time. But even high this high quality piece of television is not exempt from the occasional continuity mistake as presented here, commencing with Arrival.

    In Arrival when the Prisoner is up in the Bell Tower the bell strikes 11. Yet later in the episode No.2 invites the Prisoner for breakfast!

    When the Prisoner walks across the lawn in the opening sequence, the squares can be seen where the chessboard had once been laid. Some of the squares where the white boards had been laid down had turned yellow.

     At the cafe, The Prisoner asks a waitress if there is a telephone he can use. There isn't one at the cafe, but there is a phone box around the corner. The Prisoner then walks round the corner, and beneath the yellow and white arch is the telephone kiosk. But when the Prisoner is trying to make his call it can be plainly seen that the telephone kiosk is under a plain stone arch of the curve of a plain stone wall. This being opposite the pink and white cottage of Unicorn.

    Just like the Prisoners edited route round London, so too is the Prisoners taxi ride around the village on the morning of his arrival. On the other hand, if you have not been to the Italianate village of Portmeirion, the Prisoners edited taxi ride is not easy to spot, if you don't know Portmeirion that well.

    A man wearing a striped jersey is set upon by the white membranic village guardian. But when the man is being suffocated he can be seen wearing a pink blazer with black piping, who is No.100 of Its Your Funeral!

    The electrics truck is seen passing beneath the balcony of the Prisoners cottage of 6 private. Yet in the next shot the electrics truck is parking up outside the door of 6 private.

    No.6 attempts to escape by helicopter, yet when the helicopter is supposed to be airborne the rotor blades are not turning.

    When Arrival the helicopter lands on the lawn and No.6 emerges from the cabin, the village guardian come bounding along and in the background the smoke coming from the Old Peoples Home can be seen going back into the chimney! This is due to the reversal of the film, a common method when the village guardian is about.

    When the Prisoner identity card drops in the filing cabinet marked RESIGNED you can see the join of the painted backdrop, which makes the filing cabinet room look larger that it actually is.

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