Hey! Who's the moderator around here?

I am not a moderator! I am a free man!

Is it you, ScottN?

Of course it is. I was attempting a really bad joke and pun... I obviously failed miserably.

But I'm not the Moderator. Matt A is (see some of the other boards). IIRC, Matt ran Neon Lion Evangelesis?

You can't know who the Moderator of The Prisoner board is! That's like asking who Number One is! (Okay, I confess. Tis indeed me.)

When I said "Is it you" I meant "Is it you who is the moderator", ScottN.

I told you... I am not a moderator, I am a free man!

Who is the moderator?

That would be telling . . .

We want information...
Information...
Information...

Time to start fading out

Has it ever been confirmed that The Prisoner was actually a follow up to PM's previous series, Danger Man, aka Secret Agent Man? If so, that would mean that Number 6's real name is John Drake, iirc.

Patrick McGoohan has regularly denied that Number 6 and John Drake are the same person. Of course, that might be due to the fact, that royalties would have to be paid to the creators of Secret Agent/Danger Man. There was an ep, I forget which, where we see 6 in the "real" world, acting as an agent. He was called "Drake".

I've just started rewatching the series (yet again), an episode a week, and this time round I noticed something in Arrival that hadn't attracted my attention before.
When Number Six is on the beach, the Supervisor says that he's heading for the northern perimeter. But the beach is at the bottom of the Village maps. For a moment I thought I'd spotted a nit. But then it struck me that the Village maps might be deliberately printed with an unconventional orientation so as to make it that bit harder for inmates to work out where it is.

What happened to the glasses worn by the man smothered by Rover when it first appears? And why does he look so much like Number Six without them? ;)

Why does everyone look like Number Six when Rover is smothering them?

Be seeing you.

The series begen airing last night in NYC (Sundays at midnight, PBS.)
Why, when Number Six awakens in his new home in the Village, does he look all neat and clean-shaven. How long was he out? My guess is, only a few hours, long enough to transport him from London to the Village.
Was his home in the Village supposed to be identical to his London flat? I got that impression. Yet, when he awakens, the first thing he does is open the blinds and look out the window, something you probably would NOT do right away in familiar surroundings.

Maybe he just wanted to let some daylight into the room. Don't you ever raise the blind/open the curtains shortly after waking up?

Sometimes, no. As Spock said in "Star Trek VI," I (sometimes) prefer it dark. I let light into the living room so the sun will heat the living room; to keep the furnace from blasting. In the late afternoon, I close the blinds, as the sun reflects on the TV, washing out the picture.
One of the best lines in TV history was said in Number Six's initial confrontation with Number Two: "I will not be pushed, bent, spindled, folded, briefed, debriefed or mutilated." (I probably got the line wrong, even though I saw the episode less than 36 hours ago. Any or all of you residents of The Village of Nit Central, please feel free to correct me.)

OK, I think the line went "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered."

Here's a nit from when Rover first appears: Just as Rover is about to smother the man in the red and white striped shirt, the shirt turns into a pink jacket. (The pink jacket is an edit from a scene cut from the episode "It's Your Funeral". In that ep, Number 6 and Number 100 fight. The fight originally ended with Rover attacking Number 100. That sequence was edited out and slipped into Rover's intro in "Arrival".) Also, as the man is being smothered, not only are his sunglasses missing, but so is his hat.

The Labour Exchange Room is an obvious redress of Number 2's office.

Supposedly, Number 6's home in the Village is an exact duplicate of his home in London. But is it? I mean did 6's flat in London really have a wall that slid upward, revealing the rest of the apartment? The Prisoner does seem startled when the wall rises. And where did that wall go? Another question; Are all the homes in the Village meant to replicate the home environments of their tenants? Wouldn't that be an awfully expensive thing to do?

When he returns to his home, Number 6 starts to look over his "home away from home". Before him - and before he goes into the bathroom - he stares at a lava lamp. In one shot, there is a green lava lamp before him. I assume it's the one he stares at. However, in the close-up shot of the lamp, it's a red lamp. Is there another lamp off camera that Number 6 is looking at? (Incidentally, directly behind the Prisoner, there is a red lava lamp. Another red one is in his bedroom. There, thus, appears to be four lava lamps all together in his apartment. Number 6 must really have liked them.)

Interesting. The maid, Number 66 and the man from Electrics, both use the door knob to open the door to Number 6's home. However, for the Prisoner, the door opens automatically.

The Observation Room is also a redress of Number 2's office.

Cobb is an acronym for "Chimes of Big Ben". NANJAO

The actor playing Cobb, Paul Eddington, also co-starred in the series, The Good Life. (Good Neighbors here in the states.)

Other than the black cat seen in "Dance of the Dead" and "Many Happy Returns", it's a rarity to see an animal in The Prisoner. Watch carefully as Number 6 is being driven from the Hospital. In the background, a cow can be seen. Apparently, the Village provides its own beef.

Note that the marching band, when seen "performing" is only miming their performance. The music was dubbed in afterward.

So the Village cemetary is located along the beach. Is that wise? Suppose there was to come a hurricane or some other form of flooding. All those bodies washed out to sea...

The Village must be fairly new. There aren't that many graves it seems. Yet, the Village has been around long enough for Number 66, the maid to have been born and raised there. That's what, 20 years, at least?

Either I misread a number, or the Village has two Number 66es. The former Admiral, with whom Number 6 plays chess by the stone boat, is also Number 66.

NANJAO: As Number 6 approaches the helicopter, the Butler passes by him. I guess he was piloting the copter again. (It was the Butler who piloted the helicopter for Number 6's tour of the Village.)

Cobb makes a couple of enigmatic statements at the end of this ep. First he states that he's looking forward to "working with my new masters". His final words are "Auf Wiedersehen". Was Cobb a German double agent who had just switched sides?

Be seeing you!

The series also had two Number 8's - Nadia in "The Chimes of Big Ben" and the Kid (Alexis Kanner) in "Living in Harmony." Of course, Nadia left so they could have reassigned the number. It was also mentioned in "Chimes" that there was a previous No. 8.

"The General" and "The Schizoid Man" both had a No. 12. However, the 66 that Benn pointed out is the only time I know of where two of the same number were in the same episode (other than No. 2, of course).

Something I never knew until now - Patrick McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens. I always assumed he was born in Britain. More here.

"Cobb makes a couple of enigmatic statements at the end of this ep. First he states that he's looking forward to 'working with my new masters.' His final words are 'Auf Wiedersehen.' Was Cobb a German double agent who had just switched sides?"--Benn8

I just rewatched this episode from my A&E DVD set and noticed this scene, too. If Cobb worked for the same side as No. 6, then wouldn't his new masters be Russia? Therefore, No. 2's comments regarding their mutual masters would imply that Russia runs the Village. However, this is all just speculation. Personally, I always get this feeling from the show that the Western powers--specifically Britain--runs the Village. Be seeing you.