Sir You Play A Fine Game

   That is either merely a pleasantry greeting from the chess champion-No.14 to No.6. Or a remark that he plays a fine game on the chessboard, where No.6 is merely a pawn, but sees his rebellious nature displayed on the chessboard in not moving instantly after the move has been given. Or he has seen No.6 in his game, as in his rebellion against the Village.

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Thought For The Day

   Ii is said that at the time, to have had both No.6's in 'The Schizoid Man' wearing identical piped blazers would have been too complicated for the television viewer. I thought Patrick McGoohan should have left it to the television viewer to make their own minds up about that. And in anycase I think McGoohan missed a trick here. In that there would have been a subtle way of distiinguishing between the two 6's. they could have worn identical blazers, but one could have worn the blazer with broken piping around the lapel, and the other 6 with continuous piping around the lapel! Because that does happen from time to time in other episodes of 'the Prisoner.'

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Exhibition Of Arts And Crafts

From My Watercolour Period

"A Tender Moment"

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Potter!

    In the episode ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’ neither the Colonel-No.6, nor Professor Seltzman must be taken by the man Potter! Is this a different Potter to that in ‘The Girl Who Was Death,’ or another Potter, or the same Potter but played by a different actor? Whichever it is, soon after Potter enters the barbers shop a fight breaks out between Potter and the Colonel-No.6 in the basement. Then while the fight is taking place, the tall, gaunt figure of the undertaker, in the guise of a chauffeur, uses his nerve gas gun to paralyse the two men fighting in the basement, and presumably he has done the same to Professor Seltzman up in his Barbers shop.

    The question here is, was Potter also brought to the Village along with Seltzman and the Colonel-No.6. Or was he left behind in the basement of the Barber’s shop? If not taken to the Village, then Potter would have gone back to his car in the street and radioed in to Sir Charles Portland, after which he would probably have been ordered to return to London. I should think that Potter's written report would make interesting reading, especially for Sir Charles Portland. And then there would be no mystery about that the man he saw as being his future son-in-law, the fact that he had been working against Potter must now mean he's working for the other side....whichever side that may be!

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It’s Not As Difficult As You Might First Imagine

 It’s Not As Difficult As You Might First Imagine

    "Once we get started, even I won't be able to tell you apart."

                                        {No.2 The Schizoid Man}

    What the devils he talking about, this No.2? No.6 is the man in the black piped blazer, and No.12-Curtis is in the cream blazer. There's no confusion about this, no mistake can be made. But then perhaps the above line of text spoken by No.2 is from a time of the original script, when Curtis was originally going to wear the same dark blazer as No.6, then the line "Once we get started, even I won't be able to tell you apart" makes perfect sense. And that in my opinion would have been better, because you the viewer would not know until the very last line.

    One curious observation made of the episode ‘The Schizoid Man,’ this as No.6 is actually wearing his No.6 badge, Curtis that is, not No.6, although he does wear it for a short time during his impersonation of Curtis-No.12.

   It might be probable for No.6 to be seen by other members of the community to be seen wearing a different coloured piped blazer. But he has never before been seen to wear his numbered badge!

   If Curtis had been briefed properly as to the character of No.6, he should have known that the real No.6, who he was to take the place of, impersonate and become the character of the man, should have known that No.6 never wears his numbered badge! A mistake on the part of Curtis, perhaps he liked to wear the badge as a reminder as to who he was supposed to be! Or was it something quite deliberate, the reason for which we shall never know!

    Why does Curtis, when in the guise and persona of No.6, actually wear his Penny Farthing badge? Because it is widely known that No.6 never wears his numbered badge.Well perhaps it’s a case of Curtis liking the canopied Penny Farthing logo - I know I do!

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Caught On Camera!

  As you can see the General Store does sell postcards, and postcards of the Village, well of where else?

   This enlargement is a bit on the blurred side, but isn't that the Bell Tower in the top postcard? I'm not sure about the one below it.

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Village Life!

    Here is a message for Number Two, it is from Number one hundred and thriteen. "The boys in the band think you are very beautiful, and they do love you madly."

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