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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.
Monday, 31 October 2016
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
There are three instances in which Number 6
heads for home. During ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’ although he doesn’t actually
make it back to London, only to a mock-up of an office he
knows very well. ‘Many Happy Returns,’ in which he wakes up to find The Village
deserted, and so having built a sea-going raft sets out on a voyage of
discovery, and this time actually arrives back home in London. And ‘Fall Out,’
in having escaped The Village and journeyed over land and by ferry to Dover, the former Number 6 arrives home. And
yet where does ‘Do Not Forsake me Oh My Darling’ fit in? Number 6 once said
“Don’t tell me that time travel is in it as well?” Well it does appear to be,
although Number 6 hasn’t exactly escaped The Village, he has been taken back
there, and apparently at the same time, he’s been taken back in time. Because
Number 6 was supposed to have woken up in his London home on the morning he was due to hand
in his letter of resignation! But he soon forgets about that when memories of
The Village suddenly come flooding back to him when he looks into a mirror!
However like the previous occasion Number 6 doesn’t stay in London for very long, and he’s soon on his
travels again. And like the previous occasion he’s eventually brought back to
The Village. But in this instance The Village is the only place he can ever go
in order to become whole again!
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