Pawn Or Player?

    Madam Professor {Pictured here} and her husband are played off against each other, used as a form of indemnity, the one providing insurance against the other.
    Madam Professor believes whole-heartedly in her husband, as he believes in the educational experiment of Speedlearn, along with the General. She is a warm, sympathetic woman. She would talk her husband into anything to help keep him alive....such is the course of true love. Yet, Madam Professor in protecting the Professor from too much harm, is in effect, aiding and abetting the Village's Administration, but against her conscience. She is in constant fear for her husbands safety, sanity, and his very life. So No.6's sketch of Madam Professor as a General, must have been deeply offensive to her.
   With the death of her husband, Madam Professor, would have not only been left a widow, but would remain a Prisoner of the Village, for as long as she lived.
   One can only speculate as to what happened to this poor woman, who once lied about being perfectly happy in the Village. Whether or not she fitted in after her period of grieving. No doubt she would have had to give up that large house to which she and the Professor had been highly privilaged to live in. Perhaps Madam Professor would have been encouraged to carry on with her art seminars, to keep her busy, if for nothing else.    Be seeing you

Caught On Camera

    Whenever the Prisoner calls on old colleagues, he nearly always manages to upset a teacup in it's saucer. This time, it happened in the resignation office during that episode of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. BCNU

Pictorial Prisoner

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THEPRISONER

60 Second Interview With No.8

No.113 'So, you filled Number Six with hallucinatry drugs.'
No.8 'Yes.'
'You put him in a dangerous situation.'
'Yes.'
'Was that wise?'
'Well no real harm came to him.'
No.113 'Smile' {click goes the camera}
No.113 'You talked to him through microphones.'
No.8 'Yes.'
'It didn't work!'
'I't's always worked before!'
'But not this time?'
'No.'
'You gave him love.'
'Well.....'
'You took it away. Then you made him kill.'
'Yes, well.......'
'You then went on to face him with death, and he still didn't crack!'
'It wasn't my fault. If Number Two had kept his head and not have created the crisis too soon......'
'Was there a crisis?'
'Oh there always has to be a crisis, otherwise the process doesn't work.'
'It didn't work with a crisis this time.'
'No.'
'There's just one thing I don't quite understand.'
'And what's that?'
'What happened to the former Number Eight of It's Your Funeral?'

Reporter No.113
Photographer No.113b

The Girl Who Was Death

    A simple romp with a humourous pay-off, is one way to decribe this episode of the Prisoner. Or reflecting on man's 'latent fears' of women, as someone once put it, well isn't it more the case that the Girl who was death is an eveil foe, who must be defeated by Mister X? It was also suggested, in the past, that this episode contains certain 'sexual images!' Where are these images? I would be very interested in seeing them. Certainly the Girl who was death is attractive, beautiful, and sexy. But of any 'sexual imagery,' well I've never seen any, unless of course it's Potter leering at the Girls legs with a pair of binoculars!
   I've always been of the opinion that far too much is read into the Prisoner which is simply not there, nor was ever intended to be there in the first place. People also have far too much imagination, and see things which are not there either! But perhaps I lack the needed imagination to see them....I'll try harder next time I watch The Girl Who Was Death.

Some sexual imergary XXX Be seeing you.

A Symbolic Image

    This image which appears at the end of the Prisoner episode Arrival, has always struck me as being quite deliberate. The sign Residents Only is one at Portmeirion, denoting that the hotel lawn is for, well residents only, and that day visitors to Pormeirion are not allowed past the sign. Yet it was used quite deliberately in Arrival, indicating perhaps that the Village is for Residents only. It cannot be that the lawn of the Old People's Home is for residents only, because every Tom, Dick, or Harry uses the lawn of the Old People's Home, to have either tea or coffee, to be served by waiters!
   The Butler stands over this sign, with a superior expression on his face, he together with the sign seems to me as being symbolic, yet any substantial significance has always eluded me. I feel the Butler is making a point, but that too has always eluded me.    BCNU