Living In Harmony!

   The title of ‘Living In Harmony’ could relate to the previous episode of ‘A Change of Mind,’ although there are not that many citizens who actually live in harmony. The majority of citizens are decidedly disharmonious, and can be denounced as such for the least possible reason. The only citizens who do live in harmony, are those who have undergone the operation of Instant Social Conversion, the dislocation of the aggressive frontal lobes. In other words a leucotomy, or lobotomy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy hence the title given to Number 46 of “lobo man,” that makes people different to others. For them all excitement and agitation is a thing of the past. But in the case of Number 6, he still had aggressive tendencies, and so should have been given a larger dose of Mytol.

   But this is not the first time that the suggestion of a leucotomy being carried out on Number 6 was made. The doctor-Number 22 in ‘Checkmate’ read of Number 6’s aggressive tendencies in a psychological report on Number 6, and suggested a leucotomy to knock out the centres of the brain. Mind you it didn’t really require a psychological report to see that Number 6 has aggressive tendencies. Just as well at that point in the Prisoner’s ordeal Number 2 was there to temper the doctor’s attitude towards Number 6!

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Degree Absolute

    At the end Number 6 throws down his glass in disgust! When in reality he should have felt triumphant. It was suggested by the resuscitated Number 2 in ‘Fall Out’ that it was the drink that did for him back in the Embryo Room of ‘Once Upon A Time,’ and many fans are convinced that it was indeed the drink. Yet did not Number 6 drink from the same bottle as Number 2, and was he not unaffected by the same drink? So it could not possibly have been the drink itself that did for Number 2, but the wine glass itself!

   Ask yourself this, who else was in the Embryo Room with Number 2 and 6? Who was it that not only aided the two men during their deliberations, but also looked after them - cooking their meals, washing up. Making coffee, putting wine on the table? In my opinion it was the Butler who did it, and how he did it was to "lace" Number 2's wine glass with a drug, into which Number 2 poured the wine. The only trick was to make sure Number 2 got the right glass!
   So when in ‘Fall Out’ Number 2 demands to know how it was done, it’s rather like in ‘A B and C,’ was it the tap water or not? And yet, Number 2’s death may very well be attributed to a fatal heart attack brought on by the strain of the deliberations having taken place during that week.

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Bureau of Visual Records

    When Number 6 ensconces himself in his new inner sanctum of the Green Dome as the new Number 2 and Number 58 are hitting buttons on the control panel. In response a number of images appear on the wall screen, these may be considered to be a live feed from The Village surveillance system. Number 6 even gains visual knowledge of the Control Room. Bu then there is the image of the Prisoner on the day of his arrival in The Village. This cannot be a live feed, it has to be that at the press of a button Number 58 accessed the Bureau of Visual Records, which went completely unmentioned in the series until in ‘It’s Your Funeral,’ Number 2 asks his assistant Number 22.
    No.22 “Did you call?”
    No.2 “Yesss….send someone to the Bureau of Visual records, there’s a tape I want to review.”
    “At once, subject?”
    “Subject….warning of an assassination plot. Persons Number Six and my successor.”
    Had Number 58 pressed another couple of buttons, they might have got a flash of Number 1. But no, that would be expecting too much. But would it have been expecting too much for Number 1 to telephone the new Number 2 upon completion of the local election. But then Number 1 might very well have done, only it wouldn’t be Number 6 Number 1 would be talking to, it would be Number 58!

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Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

                       “Escape!”

                          “Oh no, the tides coming in!”

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The Prisoner - It's All About The Six!

   ‘The Prisoner’ directly revolves around………..well the Prisoner, and when it doesn’t, Number 6 is surely to be involved somewhere within the plot. Sometimes the plot cannot do without him, as in ‘It’s Your Funeral’ when Number 6 is actively encouraged to become involved, even though it may be against his better judgement. And he has to go on, because he has no choice. And sometimes Number 6 is masquerading as someone else, and ends up impersonating himself but as someone else who is impersonating him! And at other times he has a complete change of mind, either that or someone wants to change it for him! But that’s ‘the Prisoner’ for you, there’s hardly ever a dull moment. Never time to sit back and relax……………well there was that time when Number 6 was listening to classical music. Music makes for a quiet mind, well it does, but it can also excite, it can even stimulate the imagination, all depending on the sort of music one is listening to at the time. In this instance it’s a piece of classical music, but then Number 14 comes barging in disturbing the peace and quiet. Mind you Number 6 isn’t exactly innocent of that. In he comes, barging into an office, ranting and raving at some poor bureaucrat sat behind a desk. Slams down his letter of resignation, slams down his fist upsetting cup and saucer on a tea plate, then barges out. And as for the number of times Number 6 barges his way into Number 2’s office, without a by your leave of the Butler. But that’s the Prisoner for you, no hint of subtlety about him whatsoever…………..well there was that one time, during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben.’ On the day of his arrival in The Village, you could see he was getting more and more annoyed by the music playing through that black loudspeaker. He couldn’t find a switch to turn it off. Well you know how fond of good old fashioned brute force Number 6 is. So he trampled said speaker underfoot for what little good that did him, because the music still played even without a loudspeaker. But the next time, well that’s where the subtlety came in, because the next time he became irritated by the incessant music, he placed the speaker in the refrigerator, thus rendering silence to the cottage. Which doesn’t go to explain why the music still played in the Prisoner’s cottage after he’d trampled the black loudspeaker under foot, nor why it didn’t when the speaker was placed inside the refrigerator! And the Electropass? Number 6 kept it in a drawer as a keepsake, after all it wasn’t any good any more, serving only as a reminder!

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No.113d

   During the Election period of ‘Free For All,’ Number 113 is the so called reporter for The Tally Ho, and the so called photographer is Number 113b, who has a twin or doppelganger Number 113c who operates The Tally Ho broadsheet dispenser. Later the candidate Number 6, is interviewed by perhaps another doppelganger, Number 1113d. He is equipped with a microphone and tape recorder.

But reasoning dictates that this isn’t No.113d, but Number 113b who has now turned from photographer to reporter. Because Number 113 has been promoted to television cameraman! And yet that television camera isn’t like any television camera I’ve ever seen. Unless it's an early experiment in digital cameras!

 It looks more like a box with a camera lens stuck on it! Just as there might be no film in Number 113b’s camera, no words written down by Number 113 during his interview with the candidate Number 6, there might be no tape in 113b’s tape recorder, and the camera incapable of transmitting television pictures! Although television images are transmitted from somewhere, at least for one of Number 6’s election speeches.

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THEPRIS6NER

  The series will be half over after ‘Anvil’ this evening, but the glass is still half full with three more episodes to come. The trouble is one of those episodes is ‘Darling,’ the weakest episode in the series, which arguably reflects ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’ being the weakest episode of the original series.

   In ‘Anvil’ this evening,

Two wants Six to work for him as an “Undercover.” Six thinks its a trap. Well it is a trap, but Two wants to see if Six can turn the situation to his own advantage

    Schoolgirl 1,100 tells us that there is no Number 1, that there has never been a Number 1, 

and there never will be!

    1955 looks like Patrick McGoohan playing the role of Robert Fuller in ‘Colony Three!’

    A right pair of Undercovers at The Village swimming pool, dressed in overalls stand out like two sore thumbs. They should have changed into swimming trunks!

    Someone has been using a Roach-cam to spy on Two!

    And the Therapy Zone isn’t quite what it was. There’s no being an alcoholic here, then returning to the flock in good time. Here the Therapy Zone is a dark nightmare place, with barking dogs, and people wandering about apparently not being helped at all.

     And finally, Two had discovered that it had been 1,100 who had been spying on him. There was only one thing to be done, and that was to send her for therapy. But the kindly old gentleman saw that there would be time for an ice cream first, and so offers one to 1,100.

    The trouble being 1,100 wasn’t given time to finish her ice cream before the men in white coats, and a black Bedford van came for her!

   This is perhaps the saddest image in the whole of THEPRIS6NER series!

Breathe in….breathe out….more Village!

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