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| One of the strangest and most controversal series' of the sixties, it is almost impossible to describe or explain this allegorical series, based on the cult of the individual and the need for mans own mind and status. | |
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Patrick McGoohan plays
the hero of the piece, a nameless (as we never do find out his name)
secret agent (possibly a tie in to his previous series Dangerman where
he played a secret agent called John Drake) who we first meet in the
opening credits, where we see him racing around London in his yellow
Lotus Seven.
He drives into what appears to be a subway, and we next see him marching up a corridor with a face like thunder!!! he reaches a pair of double doors, which he promptly throws open |
| to reveal a man sitting at his desk, the opening music masks anything McGoohan has to say to him as he thrusts a resignation letter on to his desk and charges out again, jumps back into his car and back to his house. Inside he starts packing a suitcase untill someone gasses him through his letterbox, he then passes out. | |
| When he wakes he opens
the drawn curtains to reveal he is a long way from London, he is in a
strange beautiful but sinister village.
We then hear the immortal banter that opened every episode, No6's (McGoohan) conversation with each new No2 |
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no6; where am I? no2; in the village no6; what do you want? no2; information, information, information no6; You won't get it! no2; by hook or by crook we will no6; who are you? no2; You are number six no6; I am not a number, I am a free man no2; (mocking laughter) |
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Our hero is soon named as no6 and is told that the reason he has been brought there is they want to know why he resigned, no6's refusal to divulge this information leads to attempt after attempt to break him down through drugs, mind games and elaborate tricks and traps designed to rob him of his individuality and ego. |
| I love this
programme there are so many different meanings to it and interpretations
of it depending on who you talk to, but watch for yourself and make up
your own mind
BE SEEING YOU |
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