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We have often gone over the issue of Who is No.1 ..... well how about a conversation about .... Who is No.6 ? ....

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Tommcfearsom

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Here is a news item from 1966 that gives one of the earliest descriptions of No.6:


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Patrick McGoohan July 25, 1966 concerning No.6 and The Village

Note he is not cited as a spy.

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Tommcfearsom

Hello Folks

Here are some more of the earliest headlines about The Prisoner fresh from the latest edition of the Tally Ho ..... run by a brilliant journalist.....

news.google.com/newspapers?id=JGUpAAAAIB...r+mcgoohan&hl=en

news.google.com/newspapers?id=WiERAAAAIB...r+mcgoohan&hl=en

Note this quote from the second news item......

“The unanswered questions are part of the developing theme” McGoohan continues, “”They are questions The Prisoner himself is asking, and once he finds the answers he will be able to unravel his own baffling problems.”

This time you don't get out of here so easy, this time YOU get to be the Tally Ho's brilliant journalist..... your job is to write an article about what exactly did The Prisoner learn from those unanswered questions and what problems of his did he solve .... get crackin' this is one story that will not write it self .... in spite of what you saw in Free For All.


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Tommcfearsom

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I could easily see No.6 as William J. Morgan of the WW2 U.S. O.S.S.....

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/05/us/william-morgan-85-part-of-famed-child-custody-case-dies.html

Here is some material from a book by a William J. Morgan a psychiatrist who worked for S.O.E./O.S.S. at "Pemberley" a training "school for spies" in WW2. This was the guy who could send you to "The Village".

By 1957 most of the O.S.S. stuff from WW2 was declassified and common knowledge.

The passages below relate to some students at Pemberley who couldn't keep their mouths shut on the train ride to Pemberley "school for spies" (thus the title "Train Test"). Next was what became of "spies" detected within the system in the chapter called The Road To The Isles.....

Here are some passages (the CAPS are mine for emphasis):

Chapter 3: Train Test

There was no need for more. He did not know it, but he has already flunked out of Pemberley. He was allowed to go through the four-day assessment, but immediately afterwards received orders for an “important assignment” to a paramilitary school. This school was really a holding area where indiscreet persons were allowed to COOL off their knowledge while they learned noncommittal facts about weapons and radio. I don’t suppose he ever learned why he was side tracked.

Then there was the American Lieutenant, a brazen young man with a loud voice and a hostile attitude. He hardly needed any any probing from me to get him to talk..

I tried to pipe him down but he was not even conscious of my wrinkled brow. He was a menace and the British asked O.S.S. to CHILL him out. I think he was sent to “Siberia” an isolated post on the rainy west coast of Scotland. pg. 17

Chapter 17: The Road To The Isles

EVERYONE in England knew that something mysterious was going on in the North West Highlands, that hilly, rain soaked chunk of Scotland cut off from the rest by the Caledonian Canal, a chain of lochs joined together...

The only persons allowed across were local residents, staff and students of the training schools, and subversive agents who had been caught working for the enemy. These subversives were ‘retained in a holding area” or in other words kept safely out of the way. Others were hand cuffed and guarded. Others did not even know they had been spotted, but crossed the Canal under the joyful delusion they were to undergo an intensive training course to prepare them for an important mission. At the training schools they would find the standards unexpectedly high. When they had learned to transmit sixteen words a minute on the radio they would be told to increase their speed to twenty-five words-” it will be a very delicate mission you know.” And so their training would stretch out and out, while the war went on without them. Among these were a number of high-ranking French officers who professed loyalty to the Allied cause but were really working for the
Germans. At General de Gaulle’s request they were billeted in North West Scotland where they could do no more harm. pg. 74-75.



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Tommcfearsom

Very interesting post... I will have to look in to getting that book.

I never really thought about who #6 actually was... while i was watching I kept thinking that he was some sort of spy working for some high level government agency.

I just watched this series about 2 weeks ago and absolutely loved it.

I'm hoping that as I watch everything a second time i'll have more incite with more depth.

But watching it through the first time I was just thinking #6 was a spy of some sort. I wasn't sure if he was good or bad... or if the village was set up by who he used to work for or by his enemies.

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