Who's That On The Telephono?

                                                        

 

     "Yes who is it?"

     "Its the Shopkeeper sir."

    "Oh it's you again, what do you want this time?"

    "Its Number Six sir."

    "What about him?"
    "He's just been in my shop again."
    "You're not about to waste my time like you did yesterday?"
    "It wasn't my fault sir. You asked for any unusual activity by Number Six to be reported to you personally."
    "Oh very well. Well what is it this time?"
    "He bought a cuckoo clock!"

    "What does Number Six want with a cuckoo clock?"

    "I've no idea sir."
    "You see, you're doing it again!"
    "What sir?"
    "Wasting my time! I've got more important things to do than to bandy words with the likes of you!"
    "Sir, are you there sir? Oh he's rung off, I expect he's in one of his moods!"

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Thought For The Day

      Number 6 seeing a poster in the window of the General Store is struck by an idea. He enters the said General Store and takes a copy of The Tally Ho from the newspaper rack on the wall. He sees the records, he asks to hear L' arlesienne, of which there are six copies, and he takes them all, but listens to only three {probably because he didn't think them not to be a very good recording} and for a few seconds only. You see he was timing them, and then he wrote something down on a piece of paper. And then there was The Tally Ho, Number 6 circled the word security, what's more he drew a question mark over it! Number 6 was jamming! Then Number 6 leaves the General Store, and from nearby watches the shopkeeper also leave the General Store with the six records and The tally Ho tucked under his arm, to make his way across the square, across the street, and up the steps to the Green Dome. So how did Number 6 know that the Shopkeeper-Number 112 was a Guardian? Perhaps Number 6 found this out earlier. He might have seen the Shopkeeper as a weaselly sneak, and because of that he took the chance. If the Shopkeeper hadn't reported Number 6, and gone running to Number 2 the way he did, Number 6 would have lost nothing, and no doubt would have tried something else.

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It's All In The Mind!

     If the events of ‘the Prisoner,’ as was suggested some years ago, having been created in Number 6's mind, then the natural starting point is whatever pushed him over-the-edge into his current mental state. That would be whatever it was that eventually brought about his resignation. There was certainly a falling out amongst friends in ‘Fall out, and it could be supposed that was a form of resignation. Number 6 having been shown his future in a crystal ball, which he rejects. It’s been an opinion that ‘the Prisoner’ actually begins with ‘Fall Out,’ after all the end of ‘Fall Out’ is the beginning of ‘Arrival,’ the classic vicious circle. And it is there that the series in the mental loop actually begins. Of course there is still much room for debate, although some  of the more obvious candidates are;

* The resignation itself, so that everything we see in The Village is imaginary.

* At the end of, or at some point in ‘Fall Out,’ the confrontation with No.1, having faced himself, to what he had become.

* The return home, having apparently “escaped.”

* In fact, any sufficiently significant or traumatic event, or contributing factor within the series.

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Village Shop!

    Gus Orangutan pays a visit to the Prisoner shop in Portmeirion in 1993. Sporting Village attire he had the desire to buy a couple of badges, and a Map of Your Village.
   "That will be three pounds altogether Gus. Or you can pay me next time!"
   Gus also attended a couple of Prisoner conventions, appearing in an election parade, sitting on the back of a Taxi. He can be seen in the 'Village Day' ceremony of the film of the same name, not to mention a couple of television documentaries about 'the Prisoner.' Gus says you can't make a monkey out of him, but Number 6 only fooled himself!

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Village Life!

    "Not so cocky now are we Thorpe!"

BCNU

The Therapy Zone

     If Number 6 had been accepted as a new Number 2, he might have attempted to dismantle The Village's infrastructure, administration and the like, to rip out the mechanics of The Village if you like. That final scene of 'Dance of the Dead' with the teleprinter, its mechanics having been ripped out, suddenly bursting back into life, is suggestive of what would happen if Number 6 had tried. The Village would survive no matter what!

   When the Prisoner was under surveillance in his London home, there was a camera behind the mirror. In the bathroom of his cottage in The Village, there’s a camera behind that mirror! Blimey, they really thoroughly copied his home, didn't they! What if all the other cameras were in the same places as in the London home, too?  Now there’s a thought!

   No 7 in The Village.....7 people attempted to escape in 'Checkmate.' There's that number again. It would seem there are more sevens in The Village than is dreamt!

   If No.1 is supposed to be the alter-ego of No.6, the darker side to his nature, then I should think that No.1 knew the reason behind the Prisoner's resignation long before he was brought to the village. But having brought the Prisoner-No.6 to The Village, perhaps for darker motivations, so as to break his alter-ego in No.6. So as to stop his resigning from The Village in the first place.

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Quote For The Day

    "Subject shows great enthusiasm for his work. He's utterly devoted and loyal. Is this a man who suddenly walks out?
    "I didn't walk out, I resigned!"
    "People change, exactly, so do loyalties."
    "Not mine."
                            {The new Number 2 and the Prisoner - Arrival}
    'Once Upon A Time is partially autobiographical, containing some details of Patrick McGoohan's life. The above is also suggestive of McGoohan's life. His enthusiasm for his work, that being 'Danger Man.' He's utterly devoted and loyal, that would be to Lew Grade. And that's right, he didn't walk out he resigned, resigned from the role of John Drake - Danger Man, and it was Lew Grade to whom he handed his resignation. But not without maintaining his devotion and loyalty to Lew Grade by suggesting a new television production, 'the Prisoner' which Lew Grade saw as being a follow on series to 'Danger Man.' Which Patrick McGoohan was quick to deny. There is no doubt that McGoohan did remain loyal to Grade, after all through 'Danger Man' Lew Grade had made Patrick McGoohan a household name. And yet, might there not have been a bit of the mercenary about McGoohan, in that he was just using him, Lew Grade, in order to get 'the Prisoner' produced? After 'the Prisoner' Patrick McGoohan never worked for Lew Grade again.

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