The following comes from a transcript of interviews of a panel of guests who attended the 25th anniversary of the original screening of ‘the Prisoner.’ the event was held at the Great Western Hotel in Paddington on January 1993. One such guest was actor John Drake, seen here as the bowler at the cricket match in the episode ‘The Girl Who Was Death.’
Q: John, to what extent do you think they used your name as a joke? Do you think that you were in the series because McGoohan thought it would be quite nice to have John Drake, the actor, in the Prisoner.
John Drake: Well I never found out quite why I got this quite small, well very small part, in the Prisoner. I couldn't help feeling it might have been a sort of sop {for having used his name as the character in Danger Man}. They did want someone who could bowl very fast, and I said I could bowl very fast! Perhaps their choice was a bit limited anyway!
During ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ No.6 and No.8-Nadia went for quiet boat trip. That boat trip was filmed just off the Kent Lowestoft , England
When No.6 was down on the beach on the evening of ‘Dance of the Dead,’ just who was he looking for? He had sat listening to the radio message on the outlook on top of the cliffs, so he knew that the appointment could not be fulfilled, that other things must be done tonight, and that meant no-one was coming from his world. Or perhaps No.6 was just watching for the world to turn to silver when the moon rises!
If that message which No.6 sat listening to on the outlook, was meant for the dead man whose body was washed up on the shore, then where did he get the radio? There was no radio he could have bought, there was no radio he could have borrowed. So having acquired one..... He couldn't have smuggled it into the village with him, so is it possible that someone else within the village made sure he had the radio, a conspiracy against the village perhaps. And who would the dead man be expecting? A rescue team, some department, organisation, country which was against the village perhaps. And the dead man, it's possible that he had been a plant, sent to the village in the same way John Drake had been sent as a plant in the episode of Danger Man - Colony Three?
No.2 of ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ believed No.6 was a plant. No.6 had signed a note to XO4 - D6, was that D for Drake? There are those who believe that to be the case. When it comes to plants, there was none better, nor more capable than Nadia-No.8 in ‘The Chimes of Big Ben.’
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