Return to The Prisoner main page Talk directly to Number 6 Trivia (click here): Hammer/Anvil music is actually: Bizet, Georges-L'ARLESIENNE SUITE (one of them) Help rescue Number 6 from slavery! (click here) TV-Reviews - The Prisoner Dance of the Dead--An Episode about Nothing The village holds a costume party. #6 resists but then agrees to go. The partygoers chase him for a while, he hides, and then they stop chasing him. Analysis: 1) Not very much happened in this episode. We hear #6 listening to some nonsensical stuff on a pocket radio that has no bearing on the plot, and one of his former friends gets lobotomized. It doesn't look to me that #2 is trying very hard in this episode to crack #6. Click here to post a message        posts on 7/27/2006 2:37:38 PM I think this is the most chilling episode of all--not only is the horror of imprisonment accentuated by Dutton's fate, but Number 6 has to accept that all those who knew him (and who might have searched for him) regard him as dead. He has no life to return to. As Number 2 says, "This is your world. I am your world." Grim.        TonyCool posts on 4/7/2005 10:50:41 PM It was Dance of the Dead in which those events took place. In "Many Happy Returns" Number 6 finds The Village deserted and makes his final escape bid. If there is any definitive concept in "Dance of the Dead" it is death: the physically dead body on the beach, Dutton's brain-death, the death symbolized by the black cat, the staged death of The Prisoner, and overall the emotional death of the Villagers, as seen by the faces of the carnival crowd. Click here to post a message Other Recent The Prisoner Discussions Change of Mind - One Big Plot Hole #6's fiance: couldn't he have done better? What were the Rovers? Which was the best #2? Worst Episode Arrival Chimes of Big Ben--the most credible episode A, B, & C The General--A commentary on Govt. Propaganda Many Happy Returns Checkmate--Jailbreak! Hammer into Anvil--#6 Gets Revenge It's Your Funeral Was Patrick McGoohan on drugs when he wrote Fallout? 8/27/2006 1:47:29 PM A Prisoner Movie? 8/27/2006 1:31:30 PM Dance of the Dead--An Episode about Nothing 7/27/2006 2:37:38 PM The Girl Who Was Death - irritating lack of ideas 2/18/2006 12:20:24 AM Best Episode 12/20/2005 2:54:01 PM The Schizoid Man--Best Episode 12/20/2005 2:51:21 PM Why does #6 keep going back to his spy agency? 10/23/2005 8:10:04 PM Who was #1? 9/2/2005 11:01:19 PM Did Number 6 or Patrick McGoohan like women? 9/2/2005 10:54:12 PM Free For All--funny, but made no sense 9/2/2005 10:52:05 PM Living in Harmony - Did McGoohan run out of ideas? 9/2/2005 10:49:13 PM What's with the Butler? 9/2/2005 10:48:26 PM "Dance of the Dead"--What was THAT all about? 9/2/2005 10:44:01 PM Once Upon A Time--Winner of Worst Episode Award 9/2/2005 10:41:01 PM Was 'Do Not Foresake Me' the dumbest episode? 4/7/2005 11:40:45 AM Note: the views expressed here are only those of the posters.

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