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From: carnellp@usrcv1.DEC
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Subject: Re: strange old movie w/ \"PINK BUBBLE\"
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 16:49:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 16:49:41 1986
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	This was not a movie but a short lived TV series called "The Prisoner".
It stared Patrick MacGougan as a British Secret Service agent that tries to 
resign only to be kidnapped and taken to the "Village". He is given the number
6 and told only that he may not leave. There was a different No. 1 each week,
each trying some complex scheme to get No. 6 to tell them why he wanted to quit
the service. The show never explained who was running the place or why No. 6
had been brought there. In the last show of the series, No. 6 was promoted to
No. 1 and that was the end.

	The show ran for two seasons and was generally thought to be the sequel
to "Secret Agent" (which also stared MacGougan and featured most of the same 
writers and directors). Since it ran for less than 3 years it is seldom seen
in syndication, although I did hear of a resent run on PBS in the Boston area.
I have also heard, but not yet seen, that some of the episodes have been 
released on video tape.

	BTW - the big Pink Bubble of which you speak had a name, but for the
life of me I can not remember it. I do remember that it was always refered to
as if it were a person and not a machine.

Paul Carnell
Digital Equipment Corp.
Syracuse, NY

"In the end, my opinions 
 are the only thing I may 
 truly call my own. 
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