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Subject: The Prisoner - (nf)
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fortune!norskog    Aug 29 17:24:00 1983

Ahhhhh, yes, "The Prisoner".  Best TV show ever made.

They showed the entire series on the Bay Area PBS station a few
years back.  After the last episode they had a live interview
with Patrick McGoohan.  
  The Guardian balls were originally going to be a giant machine
that would move around on any terrain or underwater.  A prototype, 
called Rover, was built and they were shooting the first episode.  
Rover's first shot was to be a scene where it arose from the water
onto the beach when No. 6 was trying to escape.  They cued it
to surface, but it didn't.  They waited.  The inventor told them
it never would.  "What do we do now?".  McGoohan was staring
into distance and saw a weather balloon, and the Guardians were
whether balloons ever since.

Whenever I go to the local co-op grocery store, and they ask
me for my co-op number, I say belligerently, "I am not a number, 
I am a FREE MAN!".  None of the clerks or people around me
have ever gotten it.  I get some strange looks.

All I will say about the last episode, is that it champions
the doctrine of Free Will.  No spoilers, please.