The Sporting Life!

    “You can partake of the most hazardous sports, and you will” as Number 6 once told the electorate in ‘Free For All.’ On the day of his arrival in The Village, originally he was to encounter two gentlemen playing croquet on the lawn, hardly a hazardous sport I should have thought. The idea for the croquet match was adopted from the original script for ‘Arrival,’ but which was later cut. However the two men who would have been 1^st croquet player and 2nd croquet player, are used in the finished episode, they are the two men, 1^st Guardian and 2^nd Guardian pursuing the Prisoner along the beach in the Mini-Moke.
    But which lawn was the crocket match supposed to have been played? The chess lawn has a slant to it. There is a smaller lawn nearby, but hardly large enough to play on which to play a decent game of croquet. Unless the game was intended to have been played on the small lawn a step or two from the Gloriette, that might be more like it. But I wonder where they put the golf course??


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