The Therapy Zone

Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner

   He wanted ‘the Prisoner’ to be a family series, one which his daughters could watch. Hence the lack of Pat McGoohan's romantic involvement in either ‘Danger Man’ or ‘the Prisoner,’ why he would not kiss Nadia Gray in the romantic night-time scene during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ when No.6 and Nadia looked to be getting close to each other. He didn't want sex to be part of the Prisoner, yet McGoohan didn't seem to be so choosey when it came to violence or the use of drugs in the series!

  McGoohan didn't want television viewers seeing sex or romance in his series ‘the Prisoner,’ but he didn't mind someone being beaten up, mostly No.6, or No.6 seen to be doing the beating up. Or to show the use of drugs onVillage inmates, or to suggest human experimentation, not so squeamish about those topics, was he?

The Parady Of McGoohan's Message

    Apparently the rest of us are all villagers to McGoohan's No.1! He, Patrick McGoohan may not have been enthralled, be we were and still are to this day. He got us wearing piped blazers, colourful striped capes, deck shoes and other village attire, as well as carrying golfing umbrellas of differing colours! We worshipped at his shrine - the village, and you wonder who No.1 is? No.6 - Pat McGoohan. Didn't you really get his message?

No.113

  Was an old woman in a wheelchair - she died a month ago. That is the information disclosed by No.2 to the Supervisor-No.28 during ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’ Well if No.13 was an old woman in a wheelchair who died a month ago, did No.113 {who contributed to The Tally Ho in Free For All} share the same fate?

  I only ask, because in the graveyard of Hammer Into Anvil we actually see a headstone with the number 113 carved upon it. So if the former No.113 had died, what was on his head stone? Because if the No.113 was re-issued to this old woman who died a month ago, that means there would be two headstones with 113 carved on them in the graveyard! And going one further, if someone dies with a particular number and that number is not re-issued, what was No.113 of hammer Into Anvil doing with such a number? Unless of course No.113 of ‘Free For All’ was promoted, or demoted to another number, or something!

 

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