"And here on ITV after the break we continue with Patrick McGoohan as 'the Prisoner.' In tonights episode 'The Schizoid Man,' the Prisoner wakes up to find he's Number Twelve, who then has to impersonate himself as Number Six. He then meets Number Six, who is actually Number Twelve who is trying to prove Number Six wrong! Confused? I know I am!"
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Ladies and gentlemen,
ReplyDeleteNumber 6 was a top-rank agent of the British security service. One day, angrily and without giving any explanation, he quits his position. Shortly afterwards he is made unconscious and abducted. He awakes in a well furnished house of an idyllically situated very small town that hasn't got a name. Quickly he learns that he has become a prisoner among prisoners thereby hardly being able to tell apart warders and prisoners.
He is given the name Number 6. The whole local system is governed by Number 2 behind whom there is one anonymous Number 1.
Number 6 is told the reason for his abduction: They want him to reveal why he left his job with the intelligence service.
Tonight, from our eccentric secrect agent series, we are going to see the episode... (title).
Well, these are the historical lines of introduction from the German 1969 run of The Prisoner as presented by the TV station ZDF. They used to have real on-screen announcers then! - BCNU!
Hello Arno,
DeleteThat's a very interesting comment, and interetsing to read the words "excentric secret agent series," which basically that is what 'the Prisoner' is of course, and I think that aspect of the series does get forgotten.
Kind regards
David
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