Requiem for #6
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While making "Danger Man," an episode was filmed at the Portmeirion resort
in North Wales. He was so struck by the architecture, which blended several
incongruous styles, that he made it the background for "The Prisoner," an
allegorical mystery-adventure series that he helped create and that aired in
England in 1967 and on CBS in 1968 and 1969. He also wrote many of the
episodes under pseudonyms.
There was unconfirmed speculation that his "Prisoner" character, renamed
"Number 6," was in fact a retired Drake put to pasture in a mysterious
village where he struggles to retain control of his wits while trying to
escape his elusive captors.
The show's meaning remains a source of debate. Some viewers saw the drama,which aired at a peak moment of the 1960s counterculture movement, as a critique of establishment power over the individual. The unnamed hero proclaims at one point, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
He seemed to take this fate good-naturedly. He reprised, by voice, the role of Number 6 in an episode of "The Simpsons" in 2000 in which Homer Simpson declares, "I am not a number! I am a man! Oh wait. . . . I'm Number Five. Ha-ha! In your face, Number Six."
in North Wales. He was so struck by the architecture, which blended several
incongruous styles, that he made it the background for "The Prisoner," an
allegorical mystery-adventure series that he helped create and that aired in
England in 1967 and on CBS in 1968 and 1969. He also wrote many of the
episodes under pseudonyms.
There was unconfirmed speculation that his "Prisoner" character, renamed
"Number 6," was in fact a retired Drake put to pasture in a mysterious
village where he struggles to retain control of his wits while trying to
escape his elusive captors.
The show's meaning remains a source of debate. Some viewers saw the drama,which aired at a peak moment of the 1960s counterculture movement, as a critique of establishment power over the individual. The unnamed hero proclaims at one point, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
He seemed to take this fate good-naturedly. He reprised, by voice, the role of Number 6 in an episode of "The Simpsons" in 2000 in which Homer Simpson declares, "I am not a number! I am a man! Oh wait. . . . I'm Number Five. Ha-ha! In your face, Number Six."
