The Prisoner is most fortunate to enjoy a personal maid, one of his privilages perhaps? What's more there are several of them, and in 'Dance of the Dead' he has two such maids. One brings him his breakfast, and later flicks a feather duster about the cottage. And then at night time another maid comes to make him his night cap. Thinking about it, it's a wonder Number Six didn't encounter Martha as one of his personal maids, doesn't bare thinking about does it?
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I know which maid can tickle MY fancy. Talking of 'maids', how apt it was to have the actress Patsy SMART speak the very first audible words in 'The Prisoner'.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, it was Ralph SMART who gave No6 a voice in his former identity as Secret Agent John Drake!
Coincidence?
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Hi steve,
DeleteYes, I should think it was.
David
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Hello Me,
DeleteYes, and it looks like she was either holding down two jobs, or had been given the sack from the Cafe, went to the Labour exchange and got herself a job as a housemaid!
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Here's ANOTHER thought of the day...
ReplyDeleteWho or what is that mysterious figure in the Campanile that the Prisoner sees when he first emerges from his cottage in 'Arrival'?
Is he being haunted, hallucinating or what? If this doesn't make it clear to the viewer that the series is an allegory - surely the appearance of Rover does!
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Hello Steve,
DeleteThe chap the Prisoner sees in the Bell Tower is certainly something of an enigma, he's also quick on his feet for the Prisoner to have missed him. In fact he's as enigmatic as the maid, seen wafting a yellow duster on the balcony of the Prisoner's cottage, who diasppears out of the said cottage without the Prisoner bumping into her, but seen from a window disappearing down a flight of steps!
Regards
David
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