Hello,

What is the white blob that chases the prisoner?
What was the material used to make it?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_(The_Prisoner)

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Rover.jpg

The white blob was Village security. It's name was Rover. In filming, they used weather balloons of various sizes.

Thanks, I wanted to have a good answer for my 15 and 12 year old kids. I watched the original series at the same age and wanted to be sure that I could send them to a good answer when they ask about it....

i don't know what it is or was, but all i know that show was the creepiest thing the English ever gave us besides "Circus of Horrors."
I'm 53, a journalist, www.timbullard.com
I'd watch the show religiously as a child, and I don't know if my mind could handle it now. Maybe since I was so young, the really surreal nature of this post-modern apocalyptic hellatious nightmare did not bother me like it would now. Monty Python, when I was not on medicine, bothered me, gave me the heeby-jeebies. This show haunted me as well. I would ask myself, why are they doing this? Poetic license? Oh maybe other governments and spy agencies are like that. I never suspected the USA government was like that.
All I knew is the agent was good, and those keeping him there were evil. It gave me nightmares. The total blockage of sensory perception by the white ball, much like the first episode of Hawaii 5-0 where slicky was in the pool in a rubber suit, gives another meaning to censorship. It was my first knowledge of prison versus psycho ward. It looks like the new version is going to be great just by sir ian's selection. dick cheney should be followed by that blob.

Oh wow, they used weather balloons for Rover.
That is awesome actually.
Thanks for that tidbit of info, Jan.