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Have You Ever Wondered Just Who No.2 Is?

    Well he could have been Colonel Ross, Harry Palmer's immediate superior in The Ipcress File, Funeral In Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.     Colonel Ross of Military Intelligence, other wise known as MI5, MI6, MI9 and other such MI departments.

    Well thinking about it, the village administration has to recruit administrators and interrogators for the village from somewhere. And seeing how Colonel Ross is in Military Intelligence, he would be the perfect man for such a position as Chief Administrator-No.2 of the village.

  No.2-Colonel Ross pictured here with the Prisoner on the morning of his Arrival in the village.

Whatever happened to?

  What happened to......Monique-No.50, the watchmakers daughter. After surviving the evacuation of the Village during Fall Out, No.50 somehow managed to return home and eventually married private detective Marty Hopkirk. But soon to be a widow after her husband was murdered whilst on a case {Randell and Hopkirk {Deceased}}

    No.58 was nothing more than one of No.2's bully boys, who with another thug attacked No.6 in the woods at his private gymnasium. After a course of rehabilitation No.58 went onto become an astronaut, and later a member of the S.H.A.D.O.W. organisation and commander of Moonbase {UFO}.

   No.2 of ‘A Change of Mind’ turned to the earth and became a farmer in the Yorkshire Dales and changed his name to Ezra Biggins {All Creatures Great and Small}.

    The human chessboard set down on the lawn in ‘Checkmate,’ was on the lawn for about seven days in September of 1966. and was taken up again just as soon as the filming of the human chess match had been completed. The white squares laid down certainly left their mark on Portmeiron, by leaving grass squares of a different shade when the panels had been removed. In fact in the opening sequence of Arrival, and indeed of most of the episodes, as the Prisoner walks across the lawn on his way to the cafe, the same lawn as the chessboard had been set out on, the alternate light and dark squares are clearly visible. Therefore this part of the opening sequence to ‘Arrival’ was shot after ‘Checkmate's’ location shoot and at the end of September 1966. When I looked at the Prisoner crossing that lawn during the opening sequence, I used to think what a large lawn it was. And yet when I first went to Portmeirion in the September of 198, I found just how small that lawn actually is!

    It was claimed that the "Rover" balloons were obtained from a nearby meteorological station, after Patrick McGoohan had seen one rising in the sky. This he saw as being the perfect replacement for the go-kart with added dome and flashing blue light, being that of the original Village Guardian that failed so successfully. Several hundreds of the weather balloons were used. Some filled with pure air, then just Helium. A mixture of Helium and air, helium and water, air and water, helium, air and water. All experimental to see how the best way was to control the village guardian. This by attached wires, or having filled "Rover" in the normal course of events, then to be added to the film in backwards motion. This so that when you see "Rover" chasing No.6, or after a runaway taxi, it is the reversed film of "Rover" inserted into the footage which you are watching.

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