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Subject: Re: strange old movie w/ \"PINK BUBBLE\"
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 12:49:09 EST
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In article <1133@decwrl.DEC.COM>, carnellp@dec-usrcv1.UUCP says:
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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
Sorry, but No. 1 was never known for the length of the series (19 episodes, not
14 as someone earlier said), but it was the no. 2's who kept changing.
     
> . . . In the last show of the series, No. 6 was promoted to
>No. 1 and that was the end.
     
Oh, brother, not only do you spoil the entire series for anyone who hasn't
seen it, but you get it wrong!!!!    Get some courtesy.
     
>       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).
>in syndication, although I did hear of a resent run on PBS in the Boston area.
Not thought to be, was.  Definately.
     
>        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.
     
It was a thing, really.  I always thought of him as living.  And his name
was...   Rover!   (Yes, really.)
This is one of my favorite series and hope it comes to Philly
PBS again soon.  Has anyone seen Secret Agent Man?  Philly was
supposed to air it, but it never got around to it.
     
Be seeing you...
     
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Michael S. Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University
MW9@PSUVM.BITNET
     
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