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A life time fan and Prisonerologist of the 1960's series 'the Prisoner', a leading authority on the subject, a short story writer, and now Prisoner novelist.
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Saturday 5 March 2016
Many Happy Returns
After 50
years of ‘the Prisoner’ I still cannot make up my mind whether or not the two
crewman of that motor cruiser are what they appear to be, two gun runners. For
years I’ve thought them to be two agents working for The Village, who had been
despatched to shadow Number 6 aboard his open raft in case of danger. And yet if
the gun runners were simply gun
runners, then there may well have been another boat with agents working for The
Village keeping a look out for Number 6. As I find it difficult to imagine that
their prize prisoner was allowed to set sail on a dangerous sea voyage into the
Atlantic ocean
all alone. After all he might well have perished in an accident at sea! And if
they were, they certainly never stepped in when the gun runners came across the
raft. If that’s the case, they had abandoned Number 6 to his own resources! Perhaps with Number 6 being
put to the test in The Village ‘Many Happy Returns’ is an extreme test which they
were hoping Number 6 would pass, but if not……. And that makes me wonder if it
is us, the enthusiasts for ‘the
Prisoner,’ who place too much importance on Number 6? It might well have been,
had Number 6 actually died in an accident at sea, that would have been that.
Then the authorities behind The Village would simply have gone looking for
another likely candidate to “put to the test!”
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You put a very good case for the gunrunners being village operatives, but I tend to agree that they were not, as Dennis Chinnery seems genuinely peeved he missed when trying to shoot him at the end of the sequence!
ReplyDeleteRick Davy.
Hello Rick,
DeleteGood to hear from you.
Yes he did didn't he. A lucky escape for Number 6 when Gunter missed with his pistol. Mind you if they really wanted to kill Number 6, they could have rammed him with the motor cruiser. Killed by the impact of the vessel, his body perhaps cut up by the propeller. But perhaps my imagination is running away with me!
Kindest regards
David
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