The Therapy Zone

It’s All Relative

    just as some episodes can be parallel to certain feature films. I mean look at ‘The Schizoid Man,’ a film well suited to that episode would be The Prisoner of Zenda, in which an Englishman, who is a doppelganger for a Crown Prince, is persuaded to impersonate the Prince who is abducted prior to his being crowned King. Well isn't The Schizoid Man all about one man impersonating his twin?

   And what about ‘Dance of the Dead,’ what film would you draw a parallel with? Edgar Allan Poe's ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ perhaps? In which Prince Prospero has his loyal court of Noble men and women sealed up in his castle, whilst the peasants outside die in their thousands from the Red Death. Prince Prospero holds a costume Ball, but the Red Death gets into the castle and everyone dies. and the only figure seen to move is that of the Red Death!

   Well there's a costume Ball in ‘Dance of the Dead,’ and the Ball is held in the Town Hall, overseen by No.2. And originally at the end of the episode everyone was supposed to have died, save for No.6, who could have been akin to being Death!

A Thing About The Prisoner

  Is that Arrival, Once Upon A Time, and Fall Out apart, all the remaining episodes can be screened in any order, and you don't lose out on any continuity of the series - because there isn't any! Because each episode, although being part of a series, is a story in its own right and easily stands alone.

Mister Butterworth

   You can see the late Mister Butterworth of the Royal Navy, in the photograph at Mrs. Butterworth's left elbow. Also It looks like the Prisoner is having a quick measure up, to see if the measurements check out with the size of room he once knew! Well why not, he remembered the damp patch behind the bureau which was made good. The opening of the bathroom door, sliding to the left, and the hot and cold taps of the shower, which had been put on the wrong way round, so why not take measurements so as to have conclusive proof?

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