The Therapy Zone

    The Prisoner who will become known as No.6. Yet sometimes, in his dreams he's someone else, who I wonder? No.1 perhaps. Well that's how it seemed to turn out, but of course he could easily have been Curtis, in his dreams.

    Some have put the theory forward that he's a clone of himself, but that's ridiculous. Okay, you can make someone with the right build, the right bone structure, look like someone else with the use of plastic surgery. But that would leave tell-tale scars, and there are no such scars. Cloning, well yes, but being cloned to look like someone else does not make you that person. To actually become that person, the clone would have to be cloned at birth. To live the same way at the subject, to gow up in the same way, to experience the subjects life, his dreams, his likes, dislikes. His favourite dish, a favourite brand of cigar, learn how to shoot, fence, and box. It would take a life-time to get this far. Which in turn would mean that the village has been plotting this exact scenario since the birth of No.6, at 4.31 am 28th of March 1928!

 
You know, there's still all kinds of things to observe in THEPRIS6NER. I can now bring you a photograph of Two with his Butler.

  Okay, he's not a dwarf, but like that of his predecessor he's bald headed, and we never hear this Butler once utter one syllable. What’s more, unlike his predecessor, this Butler is not at the centre of things, but is often seen lurking somewhere in the back ground. And see, he does have the look of Oliver MacGreevy who played both the electrician and gardener in Arrival of the original series.

   And we have a group of newcomers to The Village, who have just got off the bus. And I'm going to try my hand at profiling. The woman in the photograph is obviously divorced, or she is a widow, as there is no man with her and her children. The woman is happy, happy because she is about to begin a new life in The Village. She is elated to think that Two might be here, and she might get to meet him. Her daughter is quietly happy, while her son is not so sure about the situation. He looks apprehensive. And what's more, it's nice to see that people still wear piped blazers in The Village.

   But I still don't understand how newcomers arrive in The Village. The woman said that she got on the bus in The Village. But she's just got off the bus.....this is The Village! But that bus we see on the desert road coming to The Village, must have come from some place!

   Well you see the bus doesn't really have to come from anywhere, because it doesn't exist, just like the people who got off the bus. Take 11-12 for another example. 11-12 doesn't exist either because his mother, Helen, made him up in her subconscious. M2 didn't actually give birth to her son, he is but a figment of her imagination.

  This is Six searching 93's apartment, and you will observe that old habits die hard for 93, as his is probably the only Lava Lamp in The Village. Not the former Astro Lamp made by Mister Craven Walker back in the late 1950's and 60's, not even that same Lava lamp now made by Mathmos, but a modern day Lava Lamp, just like the one I have, made by.......well isn't that strange. I've just looked at the box the lamp came in, and there is no producer, or maker's name, no company name on the box, just the lamps name "Motion Lamp.!"

    That arch looks pretty familiar to me, doesn't it to you? The arch of the former No.6's cottage wouldn't you say, I would, and I'd be correct. As it was stated that the production set designers had lifted the interior of No.6's cottage, but not as an exact replica, just enough to make the mind think, and recognise that which has gone before.

   I've also been looking into the type of clothes of the like worn by Six. I found a jacket for £50, a jersey for £15, and the right trainers for £20.

    The "Ins" And "outs" Of The Prisoner

    Patrick McGoohan resigns from the role of Danger Man John Drake. He takes an idea of what he wants to do to Lew Grade, the man who said yes, or words to that effect, early 1966.

    McGoohan and David Tomblin set up the production company Everyman Films Ltd, and employed many of the people who had previously worked on ‘Danger Man.’ Over the following five months or so, the first scripts were written, and the early episodes were carefully planned.

   The first filming commenced on September 5th 1966. McGoohan originally wanted the Prisoner to be a mini-serial od seven episodes and production started with just that number in mind. However, during the production, Lew Grade contacted McGoohan and asked him if he could make the series of 26 episodes, thus making the Prisoner easier to sell to the American television networks. McGoohan said that it could not be sustained that long but promised to do as many episodes as he could. Some more story-lines were then prepared and the Prisoner series grew from 7 to 13 episodes.

   After making the first 13 episodes, which includes ‘Once Upon A Time,’ which although was shown as 16th episode, it was filmed much earlier in the production order. And it was at this point that many people left the production, including story editor George Markstein, having disagreed with McGoohan about the direction the seires was being taken. This meant that the following episodes, ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,’ ‘Living In Harmony,’ ‘The Girl Who Was Death,’ and fall Out were produced with an almost entirely different production crew, apart from McGoohan and dircter David Tomblin, along with Music editor Eric Mival, who survived until the end of the series!

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