Bureau of Visual Records

    The dead body found by Number 6, supposedly washed up on the shore in the episode ‘Dance of the Dead.’ In all probability it is Number 34 who had died. The body  was played by Roy Cannon who said that the water was so cold that he had to dig his fingers into the sand so as to try and stem his shivering. It takes a certain person to simply lie there and play dead, not everyone can do it. Especially lying in chilled water!

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Caught On Camera!

   Pictured here is Two, sitting on the left of his sofa, which happens to denote the number 2. And yet here is Two again, sitting on the other end of the sofa. You will observe that the 2 of the sofa is reversed, making this Two un-Two, and a danger to The Village!

    "Impersonating Two is an act of treason. In the event of a Two impersonator arising, you must seek him out and apprehend him. This man may look like Two, but you will know that he is not Two, because he is not Two. He may appear in the Village in a dishevelled state, which has resemblances to Two. He may claim to be Two, but he is not, and he must be treated as who he is, which is someone who is not Two. He is a danger to the Village."

   Except that there is no un-Two, its just Two, perhaps letting his other self lead him for a while.

Its is, as it is, as it should be.

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Thought For The Day

    ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’ is the name of the episode, and when they eventually met one year after ZM73’S abduction to The Village, he told Janet that he needed her faith. But did Janet Portland remain faithful to her fiancé?

   Just over a year before, ZM73 left a receipt for a roll of film with the proprietor of ‘World Camera’, a shop along the Victoria Colonnade in London. He left the receipt with Janet, which he collected from her at her birthday party. And yet when ZM73 went to the photographic camera shop the transparencies had already been signed for by a Mister Carmichael. The proprietor of the shop looked a little nervous, but explained that it was a stupid clerical error by one of his juniors who had handed over ZM73’s transparencies in mistake for the number. It was pure carelessness, mistaking the figure 0 1 and 1 0, needless to say the junior assistant was not with them very long. And Mister Carmichael returned the transparencies once he had discovered the mistake, so no apparent damage had been done. But the question remains, did Mister Carmichael have a receipt of his own, or did Janet hand the receipt over to her father on request? Or was it enough for Mister Carmichael, who presumably worked for Sir Charles Portland, to show his security identity for the proprietor of the photographic shop to simply hand over the transparencies? And how did they know about the photographs in the first place? Perhaps they had ZM73 under surveillance, hence the camera in the mirror, and other parts of ZM73’s house. “What was that, sounded like a click, something mirror?”

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Teabreak Teaser

      When Number 6 discovers the abandoned raft in ‘Checkmate,’ he was in a quandary. Did he consider his confederates when he set off for the search vessel. Or was he merely thinking of his own escape?

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Exhibition of Arts And Crafts

                                               “ESCAPE!”

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THEPRIS6NER

    “I want to get back to New York.”
   “That’s not possible, there is no New York….. there is only The Village!” 
                                                           {Six and Two - Arrival}
    When I heard Two speak those words, at first I thought that The Village was sanctuary after some apocalyptic event. That’s why there was no New York, nowhere else for that matter, only The Village, with hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles of desert in every direction. But of course I soon realised that I was utterly wrong about that, otherwise where had the Prisoner come from? The Village perhaps!
    And yet The Village of THEPRIS6NER-09 isn’t the first place to been found in the middle of nowhere. Meadowlands, like The Village is surrounded by nothing but hundreds and hundreds of miles of rocky terrain and mountains in all directions.    
    At the time ‘Cape Wrath’ {2007} was seen to be the “modern-day Prisoner.” enjoying a rather less subtle "Prisoneresque" influence, in the fact that instead of The Village, there is Meadowlands, where the Brogan family are taken blindfold under the "Witness protection Programme." Meadowlands is a curious community where everyone has a secret. People having been given new names, fresh identities, but still remain the people they were. Because you can change your names, change your identity, but you still carry who you are inside your head!
   ‘Cape Wrath’ is a cross between ‘the Prisoner’ and ‘Twin peaks." Meadowlands looks a typical New England town, but there is no leaving, no way out, you are there for life! Once Mrs. Brogan and her daughter decided to go shopping in the next town. I watched and wondered just what was going to stop Mrs. Brogan and her daughter from leaving Meadowlands? The white membranic Village Guardian was obviously out of the question. Then something else from "the Prisoner popped into my mind, the words of the Supervisor "Attention post 14, attention post14. Now approaching Outer Zone in out vehicle. Number 6, I repeat Number 6." And that is just what happened to Mrs, Brogan and her daughter, well of a kind. At a petrol station, as Mrs. Brogan was paying for her petrol, a young girl approached her daughter pretending to be a friend of hers. She upset Mrs. Brogan's daughter so much, that Mrs. Brogan turned the car around and drove her home! Later I observed the very same young girl leaving what I think as being the Supervisor’s office in an administration building of the Motel. A female Supervisor, with a large wall screen in her office, as with the Supervisor and wall screen in the Control Room of The Village in "the Prisoner!"
    There was what I can only described as an in-joke during the “midnight football match” of the first episode, when Mr. Brogan was given the yellow tabard of No.6!    
   Just as people have been abducted to The Village the information inside their heads is of great value to one side or the other. Those taken to Meadowlands, having been taken there for their own protection, don't know where they are, just as those citizens in The Village don't know where they are, and there is no escape for any of them. Each have secrets of their own. Secrets that they would prefer no one else to know, and therefore need to be protected.

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Thought For The Day

    “Who is Number One?” the Prisoner asked. In fact its amongst the very first questions he asked, “Who is Number One.” Number 2 told him that it doesn’t matter who Number One is, yet it seemed to matter to Number 6. And incidentally 6 was the only one to ask who Number 1 was. No-one else in The Village asks who Number 1 is. In fact no-one seems at all bothered about Number 1. In fact when Number 6 asked Number 8 who Number 1 is, she avoided the question, because in all probability the citizens are too bothered about Number 2, to be bothered about Number 1! After all Number 2 is Chairman of The Village, and to all intents and purposes to the average Village citizen, Number 2 is the boss. And besides which it doesn’t do to ask questions. As the villager who told Number 6“Don’t do that.”
   “What?”
   “Enquire!”
   The only trouble with that is, Number 6 has an enquiring mind. He has questions, but whether or not he gets the answers in another matter. As a friend once wrote to me recently, curiosity killed the cat!

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