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    In ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ Nmber 6 approached the leader of the Brass Band and asked him to play a request, the Farandole from

L'Arlesienne Suite. The members of the Brass band must have known all the tunes they played by heart, seeing as they have no music sheets!

   Also when they shot that pigeon down, the one carrying Number 6’s coded message, they got the wrong one! Because when Number 6 wrote that message it was in black ink. Yet the message handed to Number 2 in the Cipher Room the message is written in blue ink!
   Number 2 asked the Head of Psychiatrics if he was preparing a report on his mental health. He wasn’t then, but I bet he was the moment the doctor returned to his office! What’s more, I suspect that once Number 2 had reported his own breakdown in control, having suffered a mental breakdown, he would then probably fall into the hands of the psychiatrist whom he had treated so badly in that interview earlier in the episode.
   I wonder, is it possible to track a pigeon on radar? Research has proved that it would be possible, but it would depend on the type of radar used. And that’s good, because before, I used to imagine a number of search teams sent out to scour the countryside searching for the pigeon which had been stunned by the electronic beam. Mind you, it’s just as well the pigeon didn’t come down in the sea. Then Number 2 would have had to call on the crew of M.S. Polotska to make a search for the pigeon, which might well have been lost at sea, and the coded message with it!

   And what if Number 2 had been right, that Number 6 is a “plant” sent by those “masters” we keep on hearing about, to check on him, to check on Village security. Certainly D.6’s report will not make for good reading for X.O.4!

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Teabreak Teaser

 ‘The Schizoid Man,’ its understandable how Number 2 found out about the mental link between Number 24-Alson and Number 6. But what was it that brought Number 6 and Alison together in the first place, to discover they shared a mental link?

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The Therapy Zone

    It can play the devil with your mind, ‘the Prisoner,’ it can mean the one thing one day and something completely different the next. It can bend the mind when it should actually be the other way round. One’s mind should bend ‘the Prisoner’ to whatever you want it to be. Yes ‘the Prisoner’ can be a real mind-bender when it wants to be and that’s more often than not.
   The deeper one delves into ‘the Prisoner’ the less it becomes clear. Just when you think you’re on the right path of an understanding, something comes along to take you along a different path that can twist and turn so much, that you either end up dealing with a completely different topic that takes you away from that which you were originally thinking. Or it ends up back where you started, or completely lost and unable to find your way back! Something within ‘the Prisoner’ can mean one thing, and yet something else entirely, depending on interpretation. I suppose ‘the Prisoner’ is rather like peeling an onion, it’s made up of so many layers.
    There are times when ‘the Prisoner’ allows the mind to wander, and at other times one has to be single-minded if one is to arrive at the right conclusion about something. There are times when aspects of ‘the Prisoner’ are black and white, and yet there are equally as many grey areas. And at other times a simple answer may suffice when a more complicated interpretation only clouds the water even more.   ‘The Prisoner’ is about a man who resigns his job and is abducted to The Village, although not necessarily for that reason. There has to be more to it than that, otherwise it would be a pretty poor look-out for anyone who chucks up their job! For the viewer, the fan, the enthusiast ‘the Prisoner’ is about belief. It’s what you believe that matters. Oh I’ve been ridiculed in the past for what I believe to be right in ‘the Prisoner.’ But I’ve never allowed coercion to change my mind. Isn’t that what the Prisoner teaches us, to resist, to be an individual, to stand up for what we believe in, and not to give in to others? That’s one side of ‘the Prisoner’ which gets rarely discussed between enthusiasts. I know of some fans of the series who would love to lead their lives in the way of the Prisoner, or so they would have others believe. But to do that it takes strength, conviction, and belief in yourself. And yet who really wants to live their life like the Prisoner? Everyday for Number 6 was a struggle against an authority that held him captive against his will. People who say they want to live their lives like the Prisoner, they are not captives, merely prisoner’s of themselves. Perhaps it’s merely escape from themselves they seek. After all we all want to escape at some point in our lives.
   As for ‘the Prisoner,’ there are not many television series dating as far back as the 1960’s, if any, which can still manage to stir the mind, as well as retain many secrets, with questions which still remain unanswered today!

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Arrivals!

    File Number 6. In making his report the new Number 2 said of Number 6, normal classification, on arrival the subject showed shock symptoms, followed by accepted behaviour pattern, since then has been uncooperative and distinctly aggressive, attempted to escape. Subject proving to be exceptionally difficult, but in view of his importance no extreme measures to be used yet! Does this mean that all new arrivals in The Village act in the same way as Number 6 did on his first day? After all during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’ Number 8 on the day of her arrival wondered about getting a car, or perhaps a taxi, just like Number 6 had done. And in the same way Number 6 had been asked to the Green Dome for breakfast, so had Number 8, although their conversation would have had a marked difference to that of Number 6’s de-briefing. And for that matter so would Curtis, and yet in a way, Number 6 had firsthand knowledge of that! I always thought it wrong that upon being faced with a plate of pancakes, yes pancakes and not flapjakes, Number 6 only nibbled on a piece of pancake seeing as they are supposed to be his favourite dish. Whereas when he was being conditioned, when faced with such a dish, he tucked into them, as though he hadn’t eaten for a week!

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Citizeness No.2

    Sometimes I think that what the viewer does not see in ‘the Prisoner’ is as intriguing as that which we do see. Take for example this new Number 2, she turned from likeable character of Number 58, who spoke some incomprehensible language, to No.2 a ruthless, nasty piece of work who spoke perfect English without any form of accent whatsoever.
   I would have liked to see this Number 2 carry on in the following episode, to see how she would have handled ‘The Schizoid Man.’
    However on the other hand, having taken up office as the new Number 2, she must have served some term of office in the village. I cannot think for one moment that this No.2 was brought to The Village simply to aid the out-going No.2, and then only take up office so that she could slap No.6 around................. Will you never learn...this is only the beginning... We have many ways and means but we do not wish to damage you permanently... Are you ready to talk?
   I hate to imagine what this new Number 2 might have had in store for Number 6, the day after ‘Free For All.’ A more severe looking Number 2 I have never seen. She looks as though she could do some real harm to you, and have it done with a smile on her face!

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Caught On Camera!

    Here they are again, Number 6 and Number 50 having coffee together on the lawn of the Old People’s Home! Three times in ‘It’s Your Funeral’ they have coffee together, here, and twice at the café, and they are seen at the Brass Band concert together. I wonder why Number 6 doesn’t take Monique home for coffee, perhaps he prefers neutral ground, seeing as he can’t go back to her place. Anyway they seem to enjoy each others company, seeing as they spend so much time together. But then again necessity creates strange bedfellows!

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What’s That Prisoner Been Up To?

    “What’s happened?”
    “Looks like there’s been an accident.”
    “What happened?”
    “Looks like this chap’s run himself over!”
    “Run himself over, how did he manage that?”
    “I don’t know, I’m not a forensic crime scene examiner!”
    “Well there’s no-one else here, he must have been driving that Mini-Moke.”
    “And he used it to drive over himself?!”
    “He must have jumped out.”
    “Why would he do that?”
    “Perhaps he was trying to commit suicide!”
    “What, by driving over himself?”
    “It’s not possible is it?”
    “I can think of easier ways of to commit suicide.”
    “Shall we try it?”
   “Try what?”
    “If we were the forensic investigation team we could restage the incident.”
    “What by one of us trying to run over ourselves?”
   “Yes.”
    “Don’t be ridiculous!”
    “Oh look, he’s coming round, best give him an injection. He’s had a very nasty experience.”
    “He’ll have another one when he finds he’s still alive!”
    “You know I think that airbag saved his life!”
    “It might be suggested that the airbag could be fitted inside the vehicles!”                    

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