Thought For The Day

    According to an interim No.2 of 'It's Your Funeral,' the Observers do see and hear everything. Somehow I doubt very much that statement. After all there are only 7, oh there's that number again, 7 Observers in the whole of the Control Room!

   Two of the Observers are sitting on a steel see-saw device. Are they mad? It's certainly surreal. But do not forget that they are clever, damned clever. The duration time for anyone sat watching a monitor, is twenty minutes. After that the Observer begins to loose concentration, and their attention to what he or she is seeing on the screen decreases. So every twenty minutes the Observer should take a break.
   However, for the two Observers sat on either end of the see-saw, the up and down, round and round motion of the see-saw helps prolong the Observers attention span.

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Caught On Camera!

     The above picture is taken from routine surveillance of the finished episode that we know, that of 'Arrival. However the following production picture, it would appear that the Ex-Admiral's cap badge was not originally intended to be that of a "possitive" badge, but that of a "negative" badge, that is a black background with a white Penny Farthing, as pictured below.

    It's quite on the cards, that the original badge badge came off, was perhaps lost or damaged, the pin broken, that it had to be replaced with the white background badge and black penny farthing. Yes, I do realise that in an earlier scene when the ex-Admiral is playing chess with No.6 he has the same badge as in the top picture. But that would pre-suppose that that scene was filmed before the one with No.9.

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Questions Are A Burden To Others!

1, In Hammer Into Anvil the Butler was told to "Get out of this house." Where would he have gone?

2, Who was last remembered hiking across the mountains to Switzerland?

3, What is the price of Non-alcoholic Whisky and Vodka in the village?

4, The Village is inspired by a real place which existed during WWII. Name the place and the country it was in.

5, Why the Penny Farthing for the logo of the Village?

6, Why place a canopy on the Penny Frathing?

7, Why couldn’t the Prisoner upon his arrival in the Village make a telephone call?

8, What was No.12's favourite dish?

9, In 'The Schizoid Man 'what is the date on The Tally Ho?

10, What are the items stolen by the Rook during Checkmate?

11, Who said "Life's for living?"

12, In Living In Harmony who was fastest on the draw, the man with no name, or the Kid?

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The Therapy Zone

Fascination With The Man In Isolation

   "I have always had this fascination with the man in isolation against the bureaucracy, against society, and also I've always had the constant fear that we're becoming a mineralised society more and more, and that for the individual, the rebel, shall we say, the 'arrogant individual', to survive and keep his self-respect, there has to be a certain amount of fighting against the system. So I've had this idea for years and years, probably since I was a child."

                                              { Patrick McGoohan.}

   Well this explains a great deal about his creation, its content, and the direction in which he personally drove the Prisoner series, together with those who helped produce it.

One Final Point

    Well not really, as there will be further numerous points raised I'm sure. But when Patrick McGoohan was asked which phrase he would like ‘the Prisoner’ series to be remembered by, Patrick McGoohan said he hoped it would be the greeting "Be seeing you." The meaning of this, like everything else in the series, up to the individual to interpret.... or is it?

   Well if I explained to Patrick McGoohan the origin of the phrase "Be seeing you" used in conjunction with the village salute, he probably wouldn't believe me..... or would he?

Many Happy Returns

    After No.6 has woken up in what appears a completely deserted Villge, not only does No.6 check out the Cafe, the old people's home, and inside the Green Dome. But he also gets into the hospital, which is also completely deserted, which is in the script, but which does not feature in the actual episode.

Be seeing you

Thought For The Day

    In Checkmate, while No.6 and his few reliable men, were carrying out the final part of their plan to escape, what exactly was the Supervisor and the Control Room personnel doing that time?
    Yes, the Supervisor reported the aircraft in distress, that M.S. Polotska picked up the distress call, and No.2 said "Leave it to them." They didn't know they were dealing with No.6. But then it was reported that the searchlight crew in the Tower had been attacked. This also was reported to No.2, who said he would be right over, and he was about to leave for the Control Room when No.6 and his men stopped him. I wonder why it is, the Supervisor was not alerted to further trouble when No.2 didn't arrive at the Control Room? And then there are the Observers. One would have thought that one of them would have observed No.6 and the Rook down on the beach after curfew, as well as the Rook being cast off into the water aboard that rather flimsy raft, two rubber lilos tired together with a length of rope. Not a sea worthy raft at all. But then No.6 was improvising by that time!

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Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

     Entitled                        "ESCAPE!"

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Teabreak Teaser

Don't bother yourself so much with WHY? But then you might reply "why not?"  More to the point would be, why did No.12 die for the Professor?

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