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-Commentary - The Prisoner Who was #1? In the very bizarre last episode we see that #1 was in fact #6 behind a monkey mask. What was THAT all about? #1 couldn't be #6 at the same time. Everyone says "Sure, that was supposed to be allegorical", but it didn't make sense in the real world. Wasn't that ending a copout? Click here to post a message        The commentator Sunless posts on 9/2/2005 11:01:19 PM BlackDeuceCoupe hit the nail on the head. The whole show is all about the strugge of the Self.        Kilroy posts on 8/8/2005 11:22:53 AM By Jove, I think you've got it! It was the general consensus at the time that Number One WAS Number Six, but at the time, none of us really understood "how". But, it was kind of just accepted without knowing why. When the series re-ran for a season in 1990, another generation came to the same conclusion, but expressed the same descriptions of "how" as your husband did. Being in grad school at the time with a roommate (and his friends) in creative writing and journalism, they literally picked the last episode apart, applying "what is known to date" from previous episodes to the surreal abstractions that were actually designed to obscure the "message". This was at a time when such a message on the media of television was...uh...frowned upon, so to speak. Their conclusions were the best I'd heard to date, and subsequent interviews with Patrick years later support that conclusion...a man consumed by his own insidious creation. Because no matter how resourceful HE was, the Village was always one step ahead. It was just a subtle version of a Totalitarian "Frankenstein" tale for the late 20th century during a period of social turmoil and intense distrust of the government. Interestingly enough, my father, a career military man, "got it" when the rest of us didn't at the time.        Jen posts on 8/6/2005 9:55:24 PM Okay, I have already thrown in my perception theory in the Fallout thread. Here's another one: My South American husband had never heard of the Prisoner until a few months ago. He watched some episodes and thinks that #6 had moved up the ladder from spy to management long before he resigned. He thinks that #6 was actually #1 and he had somehow, in his administrative duties, been responsible for the creation of the village in a top-down sort of way. Kind of like a CEO sending a memo that the company needs more of a presence in Memphis; then later receiving a memo from a VP saying that Memphis is taken care of without really knowing how it is being done. He got trapped in his own creation without realizing it was his. 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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