Tonight On The Video Channel

    Yes I know that there are those out there, in fact there are a good many of you out there, who will commence reading this and say "Oh no, not again!" Why is he doing this? Well if you never watch THEPRIS6NER-09 series you'll never know. Yet thankfully there are those who will read this and understand why, and I applaud those fans who do.
    This month sees the 4th anniversary of THEPRIS6NER, and tonight my wife and I commence a re-screening of this series tonight. It will be our sixth screening of the series, and possibly there are few fans who can say that. But if I'm wrong perhaps they would be kind enough to let me know.
   For me, and my wife, there is only one thing wrong with this series, it's over all too quickly. With the end of Checkmate we are always left wanting more. In fact at the end of each episode we are always left wanting more, a 6 episode mini-series is far too short especially when taking the original series into consideration. However it must not be forgotten that McGoohan had intended his series 'the Prisoner,' to have been a 7 episode mini-series.
   In Arrival a man wakes up in the desert. He doesn''t know where he is or how he came to be there, but stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions is the desert! He encounters an old man who is being pursued by armed Guardians with dogs. He helps the old man, who sees the Prisoner as being a bloody miracle seeing as he doesn't come from the Village. The old man is the former No.6, dies, and the Prisoner buries the body in the sand beneath a dead tree.
   Eventually the Prisoner arrives at the Village. He takes a taxi ride, falls from a cinema, and ends up in hospital. The Prisoner is taken to meet Two "Look" says Two "see how the sun makes it all glow.......the kind of day that makes you glad to be alive!"
    As I originally watched Arrival I thought the Prisoner was suffering from flashbacks of a previous life. But it wasn't until the second watching of the episode that I came to realise that the Prisoner, like others who are brought to the Village, is living two existences at the one and same time.
   313 is a doctor who takes a personal interest in the Prisoner Six. Six wants to escape, but escape is not possible, because there is nowhere to escape to. There is only the Village! Two is a dark character, but I love to watch him eating that cherry cake as there is something strangely compelling about it.

Breathe in......breathe out......more Village!