Mind The Psyche!

    Number 6, whilst struggling, is manhandled from his home by a security force, sedated, and eventually placed on a hospital bed in the framework of the Seltzman machine. The same goes for the Colonel, although how he took to the idea of physically having his mind changed with another subject is unknown. He may have struggled, he may have gone screaming to the Seltzman machine, certainly he had eventually been sedated.  
    The process of mind transference then took place, the result being that Number 6 woke up back in his London home, his mind now inhabiting the Colonel’s body! But what of the Colonel’s mind? I have always been under the impression that when the two minds are exchanged, if the one now inhabits the Colonel’s body, then the other inhabits Number 6’s body. Further more that Number 6 remains sedated in a hospital bed, because they couldn’t have Number 6 at large in The Village with the Colonel’s mind. Also there could be no accidents, otherwise they might not be able to reunite the two, body and psyche.
    An idea was put to me quite recently, and it is this. “I wonder if the sedation of the original body wasn't part of the routine for everyone who had his mind transferred. I'm not so sure if the Colonel’s mind really was transferred to Number 6's body, either. What if only one mind could be transferred, at a time, while the other was somehow “stored” or put in a coma or the like? This would be another explanation, also for the need to find a reversal process.” This idea was also adopted by my wife, who was under the impression that the mind of the Colonel had not been put in Number 6’s body, but placed elsewhere else. It’s a novel idea, but if the Colonel’s mind is not transferred to Number 6’s body, then where, into a large receptacle perhaps? But if you cannot see a person’s psyche, how do you know its there? Neither can I imagine that somehow the mind is kept in the ether somewhere. And let us not forget how in the final experiment, Doctor Seltzman had progressed to the state that he could, and did, change the minds of three people simultaneously. That indicates to me that when the Colonel and Number 6 underwent the mind transference process, the two minds were exchanged into either body.

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Expecting Visitors?

   Number 2 sat in his office awaiting a new visitor in The Village. He was expecting the Colonel to bring him Doctor Jacob Seltzman, whom he welcomed with open arms. And yet it is not the actors of the Colonel and Doctor Seltzman who walked through the door, at least in long shot it isn’t, its only Nigel Stock and Hugo Schuster when it’s in close-up! I’ve sometimes wondered why they didn’t use the same actors like Nigel Sock and Hugo Schuster in long shots as they do in close-ups, but used substitutes instead?!

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Bureau of Visual Records

    There’s been a special delivery for Number 6 while he’s been lounging about on the beach! His own suit specially delivered for the occasion of the Carnival. What does that mean? Well to Number 6 it means that he’s still himself, which wouldn’t be at all surprising seeing as ‘Dance of the Dead’ was originally to have been the second episode in the series. He wouldn’t have been in The Village long enough for anything too drastic to have befallen him.
   At the Ball Number 6 asked Number 2 why he has no costume, to which Number 2 said perhaps because he doesn’t exist. Well we can see that he exists, at least in The Village, but in the outside World, well that’s going to be a different matter. Certainly the Prisoner has no costume, but that in itself does at least make him stand out at the Ball!
   But I thought the doctor in ‘Arrival’ said they’d burned his clothes? But obviously not, because that infantile patient was seen wearing the Prisoner’s suit. So why did the doctor say it had been burned? And why was that patient suddenly wearing the Prisoner’s clothes? They were obviously conducting an experiment, perhaps they were attempting to create another like the Prisoner!

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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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