The Therapy Zone

   ‘Fall Out’ - The Estate Agent's sign attached to the railings outside the Prisoner's London house, has the name of Lageu & Son, Estate Agents. This is something of an in-joke, as John Lageu was employed during the episode of Fall Out as the set dresser.

     ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ - In the original script, at the end of the episode, Number Six visits the grave of Number Seventy-three, and places a bunch of Daffodils upon her grave. This was omitted from the finished episode. The scene may have put too much emphasis on Number Six's sympathies. But even with no final visit to the grave, it becomes apparent that Number Six is taking on a role within the community. He is protecting the people from the abuses of society or at least enacting revenge against wrongs. This is most evident in episodes like It's Your Funeral, in which he saves innocent citizens from cruel and inevitable punishment.

    ‘Dance of the Dead’ - Number Six appears at the Ball dressed in his own suit and looking very much like John Drake of Danger Man/Secret Agent.

    Is the Prisoner fact or fantasy? Is the Prisoner all in the mind? Well it's quite possible that it's all three. Because the Prisoner has been described as a "television fantasy," and Portmeirion as a "architectural fantasy," and if you put the two together, you get a "fantasy within a fantasy." But fantasy not without a bit of reality. Because in Scotland there was at least one installation, where during WWII recalcitrant agents were placed for the duration of the war. Recalcitrant agents who had knowledge which meant they could not be left to roam free, much like ‘the Prisoner’ in fact. Such as installations in Scotland, like that of Inverlair Lodge, which was run by the S.O.E {Special Operations Executive} during the war, and other such “Villages” intimated by Patrick McGoohan. Of course this Scottish installation was nothing like The Village, and no-one went about wearing piped school blazers, or brightly coloured clothes and deck shoes, that simply helps with the colourful impact of the Prisoner, all those colourful striped capes and umbrellas. So it would seem that the Prisoner series is not all fantasy, there is some fact which the series is based upon. So what about it being "all in the mind?" Well possibly, yet we, as the viewer, are privy to scenes which take place within the series, which the Prisoner could know nothing about. So how could such scenes be in the Prisoner's mind? No, when all said and done, the Prisoner is everything to everyman, and woman. And that's a question isn't it? Why are members of the fairer sex drawn so to what is basically a masculine television series?

No.7's It Doesn't Really Mean Anything

    But what is there to understand? the Prisoner is a television series to be viewed, or more appropriately, experienced. But there is nothing more to it than what the viewer thinks or feels while watching it - anything else is un-natural and contrived.

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