Village Life!

    “Oh well, another day.”
    “Another credit Unit!”
    “What’s on the agenda today?”
    “Biscuits!”
    “Biscuits?”
    “Number Two ordered tea and biscuits for his elevenses the other day. The Butler brought in the tea, and two digestive biscuits.”
    “What’s wrong with that?”
    “Number Two asked the Butler if there were no proper biscuits.”
    “Proper biscuits, what did Number Two mean by that?”
    “Biscuits with the cream inside.”
    “Oh. And what did the Butler say?”
    “You know the Butler, he never has much to say for himself.”
    “And now we have to sit on a Committee to discuss the question of biscuits!”
    “It’s more serious than that.”
    “How so?”
    “Biscuits could be but the tip of the pyramid. Biscuits today, our jobs tomorrow!”
    “A question of Government funding!”
    “If they can no longer provide proper biscuits with our tea, bigger and larger cuts will follow.”
    “They wouldn’t close The Village down?”
    “It might come to that one day.”
    “It’s a beautiful day in The Village, lets not spoil it.”
    “Let’s not waste it!”
    “Tea and toasted tea cakes at the café at lunchtime.”
    “Can we afford tea cakes, if we can’t afford biscuits?”
    “Yes, I’ve just had my weekly allowance made up!”

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The Schizoid Man

The Schizoid Man

    The password is Gemini, only it wasn’t, well it was as far as Number 2 was concerned because when it all starts even he won’t be able to tell the two 6’s apart. What, not even when one of them is wearing a white blazer!
   Gemini the sign of the twins, and twins figure large in ‘the Prisoner,’ I won’t bother to list them, you know who they are. But with Number 6 it appears The Village is dealing with triplets for possibly the first time, Number 6, Curtis, and Number 1! Okay Curtis is the odd one out who just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to Number 6 that’s all. After all we all have a doppelganger somewhere in the world, how would you feel if one day you found that someone resembling you was impersonating you, slowly but surely taking over your life to the point that your friends and family no longer recognize you. In fact there comes the point when they consider you to be the impersonator, and cast you out, your life, your identity, gone forever because no-one will believe who you really are. There would be only one thing to do, to take the place of your impersonator. In other words do to him what he has done to you and get your life back!

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Quote For The Day

    “Yes I realize that sir, the reason why we selected Number 6…..A matter of credibility, without which the plan might backfire.”
                                     {Interim Number 2 – ‘It’s Your Funeral}

    It’s almost as though they do not actually want Plan Division Q to succeed involving Number 6 in the plan, because he is a pivotal part of that plan, to make it believable. But haven’t they realized that any such plan involving Number 6 never succeeded? He has failed to escape The Village on numerous occasions, a variety of Number 2’s failed to extract the reason behind his resignation. The educational experiment Speed Learn was brought to its knees because Number 6 was permitted to ask the General a question. A number of citizens failed to escape because Number 6 took charge of the plan! A Number 2 suffered a nervous breakdown because of Number 6’s permitted involvement, and in the end they lost a rocket! If you want a plan to succeed, any kind of plan, it had better not involve Number 6!

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Exhibition of Arts And Crafts

                           Fusion

BCNU

Mind The Fall Out!

   “Whatever they do to me, it can’t be worse than that!”

BCNU

Free For All

    Illuminati and Freemasonry, is that what this episode is all about? If it is, the only enlightenment Number 6 received is that he’s just as capable of being manipulated as anyone else in The Village! Yes there are certain Freemasonesque visuals, the light or eye in the abstract chair, the members of the town council standing in a circle on rostrums, along with the gavel used by both Number 2-Chairman of the town council, and Number 6 used the gavel in ‘Fall Out’ to bring the members of the Assembly to order. But there is no actual ceremony. Number 6 isn’t brought into the chamber bare breasted, blindfolded and with a halter around his neck. No, Number 6 is merely brought to the council chamber in order to witness the disillusion of the out-going council, that’s all, plain and simple. It’s all part of Number 6 standing as a candidate for electoral office. Patrick McGoohan wasn’t in favour of secret organizations such as Freemasonry, not that it’s all that secret these days. I found a pair of Freemason cufflinks on a stall on the local Antique and bric-a-brac market once, I almost bought them. And once a Freemason demonstrated the secret handshake, after he had given me that handshake to see if I were a Freemason, I’m not. I suppose it could be said that there is a form of ceremony concerning Number 6 in ‘Fall Out,’ that it could be interpreted that as Number 6 has seen the light he achieves the chair of honour, the Throne if you prefer. But no, Patrick McGoohan didn’t care for secret societies, he abhorred cults, which is ironic really for when he was alive he was the honorary president of a society for ‘the Prisoner.’ Strange that after his death a new honorary president had not been selected for that society.
    And yet to draw your attention to that abstract chair in the Council Chamber, which also appears in the boardroom, who is that chair meant for? If Number 2, then I would have expected to see him sitting in it. The Grandmaster of the lodge perhaps! I should have thought it likely it would been meant for Number 1!

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A Favourite Scene In A Change of Mind

   Although Number 6 thinks he has undergone the full personality change brought about Instant Social Conversion, he still has doubts, aggression even, something which the drug Mytol is unable to counter.
   Number 6 eventually returns to the place where it all began, to his private gymnasium somewhere in the woods. Looking up at the high bar he makes to jump up at it, then attracted to the punch bag he clenches a fist but he can’t quite bring himself to punch it. Not so full of himself now he’s not, too much the social convert with not so much punch in him now. So here we are, back again, and it was Number 2’s bully boys who first picked a fight with Number 6 so that they could report him to the Committee for having beaten them up! Now here they were again, looking to finish some unfinished business, so they could extract their revenge upon Number 6. And yet two punches to Number 6’s face is enough, and by the end of the fist-fight Number 6 is restored to his old self. Perhaps adrenaline is a natural antidote to Mytol! It is interesting to see that two punches to Number 6’s face is enough to bring him back to his senses, similar to when Number 58 slapped Number 6 around the face in ‘Free For All.’
  And to think, that if Number 16 and his mate {I cannot make out his number} had not gone back to extract their revenge on Number 6, he might not have returned to his former self quite so quickly. Certainly not until the affects of the Mytol sedative had completely worn off!

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