Thought For The Day

    Here's something. If John Drake is the Prisoner, why is it he drives an Austin Mini Cooper 'S' and not a Lotus Seven? The Lotus is registered for 1965, and so had to have been built, in kit-car form that year. I thought perhaps it was because the Lotus Seven isn't the most very practical of cars. But I recall that the Colonel/Prisoner-No.6, drove the Lotus Seven onto the Europeon continent in Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. So there would have been no reason for Drake not to drive his Lotus. But then perhaps it was simply a question of choice, seeing as how as Mister X-the Prisoner drove a Lotus Elan, a car rejected by Patrick McGoohan. But the reason for that might be a simple one, that Lotus had sold their Lotus Seven demonstrator car KAR 120C. And so when they went back to use the Lotus again, another Lotus Seven had to  be painted in the Prisoner livery.

   
    What happened to the original Lotus Seven? Well that ended up in Autralia, and was writen off in a road accident. As for the second Lotus Seven, I have no idea what happened to that particular car. I have no idea what it's original license plate was I'm afraid. Perhaps there is someone out there who does know, and so could tell me.
   Patrick McGoohan saw the Lotus car as being one for the Individual, that it is a car with a rebellious nature. Well that's in clement weather. In late Autumn anyone who owns such a car will tell you, that it is not a car for winter months, with a low wheel base, and no heater it has to be taken off the raod until the following spring. Such a car for the individual is also very restrictive at certain time of the year!
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Our Diminutive Friend The Butler

  What happened to the Butler? The last we saw of him, he was entering 1 Buckingham Place, just as his new master was driving off in his Lotus 7 to hand in his letter of resignation at the end of Fall Out.
    Upon the Prisoner's return to his house, after handing in his resignation, he collects two ready packed suitcases, his passport and airline ticket. But of the Butler there is no sign. I suspect that having packed those two suitcases for his master, the Butler departed No.1 Buckingham Place in order to make his own way to the Village. You see it is not only the Prisoner who is caught up in the vicious circle that is the Prisoner. Forced to live and relive, again and again, the subsequent consequences of the Prisoner's resignation! Just a theory.  I'll be seeing you.

Arts And Crafts

Not very original I'm afraid. But then I'm no Epstein!

BCNU

A Favourite Moment In The Prisoner Comes when........

....................... The Prisoner receives the first genuine act of kindness since his abduction to the Village, when a young gypsy girl give the Prisoner a cup of tea or broth, she even smiles at him before setting him on his way to a road.  Be seeing you

Thought For The Day

   There was a time, and the older genration will remember, when the British workman was accused of 'drawing the job out,' making the job he was doing last longer that it actually should be.
   Take this fellow No.42, he's painting a wall when he is approached by No.6 and the Rook. No.6 asked 42 if he painted this, to which 42 said 'Yes.' and that if he, No.6, wasn't satisfied, he'd paint it again!
    No.6 said that he was satisfied, and the Rook agreed. But the next day, when No.6 again  approaches 42, giving him the password 'Tonight at Moon set, Rook to Queen's Pawn Six check,' he is still painting that part of the wall! Either someone wasn't satisfied with 42's work, and he had to paint that wall again, or he's drawing the job out, making it last longer than it should!  BCNU.

Village Pin-Up

    Always a favourite - Nadia Gray. No.8 told No.2 during The Chimes of Big Ben that he had done his best, and that she would stress it in her report. Well Nadia was about to take her leave of the Village, so where was she going, and to whom was she going to report?
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BCNU

Caught On Camera

    During Dance of the Dead while be begins to make a search of the Town Hall, to alter his appearance, No.6, dons a white coat, and the spectacles he finds in the breast pocket. Now this is a very curious thing, because John Drake would use spectacles to alter his appearance on occasion, such spectacles had plain glass of course. So is that the case here? Because No.6 seems very much at home wearing those spectacles, he can see plain, and plain enough to be able to read that termination order, despite wearing someone elses spectacles! But of course these glasses are in fact Patrick McGoohan's own, otherwise why should someone else have spectacles with plain glass lenses?

   These spectacles on the other hand, seen on the right, are not Patrick McGoohan's own spectacles. and apart from the episode Dance of the Dead, when did you see No.6 wearing spectacles, oh yes, in  Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. So it appears that the Prisoner does need to wear spectacles, if only to make use of two different coloured lenses. But these spectacles are not those of McGoohan, he would never wear National Health glasses such as these! No, surely these belong to Nigel Stock, who is playing the role of No.6.

 Fictionally speaking, if the Prisoner wears glasses only occasionally, does that mean that this pair also have plain glass lenses? Well no, not if they are actually Nigel Stock's spectacles it doesn't. And how do I know they are National Health glasses? That's simple, because of the clear glass frames.

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