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From: imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin )
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: strange old movie w/ \"PINK BUBBLE\"
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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 01:55:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 01:55:28 1986
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Summary: 

In article carnellp@usrcv1.DEC <1133@decwrl.DEC.COM> writes:

>
>	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

You weren't watching closely enough.  The show *DOES* explain why No. 6 was
brought there.  In the beginning of each show, as a matter of fact, they
replay the sequence of events that brought him there:
1)  McGoohan, one of their top agents, resigns
2)  They can't figure out why he resigned (naah, he couldn't have 
resigned, he must be working for the other side)
3)  Since he is obviously (they think) working for the other side, they have to
find out what he knows.  
4)  They take him to the island to force the real reason for resigning 
out of him.

>
>	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.

Actually, it is shown relatively often on various PBS stations, and 
is available on video.

By the way, if you get a chance *watch this show*!  It really is good, once
you get the jist of what's going on -- you gotta think a little.

Ira Dworkin
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL
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