Caught On Camera!

    Don’t look now, but its right behind you!

    Never mind what Number 6 is doing, what’s that phantasmagorical thing behind him?
   And judging by appearances, it seems the domed roof of the projection room is undergoing restoration work. Either that or they haven’t finished building it yet! And just how many “domed” rooms are there under The Village? There’s the Control room, the Boardroom, the Council Chamber, the Committee room, and now the Projection room. Think of all those pits that would have to have been excavated in order to accommodate the underground domes in the first place!

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Caught On Camera!

    “My hat nearly blew away that time!”
    “Best hang onto it then.”
    “Do you think it ruined the shot?”
    “No, besides we’re well in the background, who’s to notice?”
    “Suppose so. Anyway I’d best get back to work soon.”
    “Aren’t you working now?”
    “Oh no, I’m only on my tea break, I work here you see. I’ve got rooms still to clean, beds to make. I’m one of the maids!”

    “Well I think it’s daft!”
    “Daft?”
    “That McGoohan chap running about with a balloon tied to his trousers, did you see that?”

    “No, I was up in The Village, saw a young man being suffocated by that balloon!”
    “Daft! Us sitting here in deckchairs, wearing a straw boater and a stupid cape!””
    “You’re getting paid for it!”
    “That rubber lilo and beach ball, are we supposed to do something with them?”
    “I expect some young girls in bikinis will come along and use them.”
    “I saw them earlier, by the swimming pool, they didn’t look none to warm. What she looking at?”
    “Dunno, handsome woman though Virginia Maskell.”
    “She was a Danger girl!”
   “What’s a danger girl when she’s at home?”
   “Like a Bond girl, only she was in Danger Man.”
   “Oh, she was the Colonel’s Daughter.”
   “That’s right.”
   Don Chaffey “Oi you two……. shut up, we’re trying to film here! When you’re ready Miss Maskell.”

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Exhibition of Arts And Crafts

                         “The Kraken!”

                          {Raised from the depths!}

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A Favourite Scene

   A small enough scene during ‘The Schizoid Man’ when two hair dressers give Number 6 a makeover in order to make him look like himself. I like to imagine that this is the second makeover Number 6 has gone through. The first to make him look like Number 12-Curtis. The beard shaved off, the moustache trimmed and dyed, the hair restyled and dyed. It wouldn’t take much to achieve the “Curtis” look. And probably even less time to reverse the makeover. Shave off the moustache, wash out the black dye from his hair, and you’d hardly know yourself would you Number 6?!

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The Month of February!

    February, it’s a busy time for Number 6. On February 10^th he woke up with a bruised wrist, caused by a needle punch mark which he got the night before, later meeting with a doctor-Number 14 at a table outside the Old People’s Home. “My handbook on social etiquette doesn’t deal with this” Number 6 began “how does one talk to someone that one has met in a dream?” That night of Feb10th it was a sedated Number 6 who was taken from his cottage to the secret laboratory in the woods for a second time. However on that same night, Number 6, having drunk his drugged nightcap of hot chocolate, was taken from his cottage by two medics and a nurse and placed in the cottage of 12 Private. The next day, being Feb11^th, he woke up in a strange apartment, but as someone else, after undergoing a physical change, along with having his mind conditioned over a period which lasted between 4 to 6 weeks. During which time Number 6 was taken from his cottage for a third time, on the night of the 11^th, to participate in his final dream of ‘A B and C!’ Then later in the month, around Feb 20^th, it’s difficult to be exact, Number 6 wakes up to find The Village deserted. He spent a day or two felling trees, emptying oil drums, and building a sea-going raft, eventually setting sail on February 22^nd. The date allows for the 25 days Number 6 spent at sea, so to arrive back at his home in London on March 18^th.

    With so much happening this month, it makes you wonder how they managed to fit it all in, and makes the mind boggle!

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Bureau of Visual Records

    Number 48 had been caught in a ring of steel, well almost. Made up of “snowdrops” armed with American made Thompson submachine guns. Snowdrop being slang for an American military policeman, being an allusion to the white helmets, gloves, belts, and socks {in this case white boots} during the Second World War. And this isn’t the first time “snowdrops” have been seen operating in The Village. The first time was in ‘The General when two snowdrops were patrolling the underground corridors, although at that time they were actually wearing white Polo helmets. And a small unit of snowdrops who were assigned to take Number 6 forcibly from his home in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’ although once again wearing white Polo helmets.    
   So what are American military policemen {observe their helmets} doing in The Village? Obviously maintaining security!

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Citizen No.2!

   I find it difficult to make up my mind where it’s you, or Number 2 of ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My darling, or of ‘Living In harmony,’ who suffered the worst defeat of any such Number 2. People died in all three episodes, the Colonel in one, Number 8 and 22 in the other. Yes Doctor Seltzman did manage to escape The Village, but at least the Seltzman machine was retained, and the reversal process attained. In your case both the Professor and Number 12 of Administration lay dead, so that puts you on a par with Number 2 of ‘Living In Harmony.’ But the General has gone up in smoke, destroyed beyond repair, which in turn brought about the collapse of the educational experiment of Speedlearn. A complete disaster! What’s more you suffered defeat twice at the hands of Number 6 having underestimated him on both occasions. I’ve just made up my mind! In my opinion it’s you who suffers the worst defeat of any Number 2. I should have thought you would have learned your lesson about Number 6 the first time round. If you had controlled his involvement……...lets face it Number 6 should never have been involved in the first place. You were far too easy on him, in that you allowed him to be far too clever for your own good!

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