I sometimes like to make note of the date of important
events within ‘the Prisoner. Feb 10th, when Number 6 is drugged and
abducted from his home. March 18th is another when the Prisoner arrives back in
London having escaped The Village,
and March 19th when he returns on his birthday. And so it was 47 years ago this
month, round abour now, that the former Number 6 and his three confederates escaped The Village.
One alighted the lorry transport to continue a journey of his own, while the
three others returned to London.
How do we know it was in December 1967? Because there is one piece of
irrefutable proof that makes it no other month than that particular December.
That piece of proof lies within London
itself. Its not something that stands out, it isn’t at all obvious, in fact it
took me some considerable time to notice it. It was while I was carrying out a
four and a half year study into ‘the Prisoner’ series, otherwise the evidence
would have gone unobserved. What is it? Well where would the fun be in that if
I told you? I think I’ll leave you to discover that yourselves.
Be seeing you
There are some adverts on hoardings around Trafalgar Square. I think one of them is for a KitKat. Presumably the adverts get changed periodically so if only we could discover which adverts were pasted up there around December 1967, we could match them up. Although this could tell us when it was filmed, which might not necessarily be when the story was meant to be set.
ReplyDeleteOr is it the tides of the Thames?
Maybe something to do with bus routes?
Or something more concrete such as a subtle change in a building or road layout somewhere?
Be seeing you
ZM72
Hello ZM72,
DeleteIts not easy is it? I only discovered what it is by pure chance, and even then I had to do some research. A Kit-Kat advert on a billboard, hadn't spotted that! You see, there's always something missed!
Very kind regards
David
BCNU