After witnessing the trials of Number Two and Number Forty-Eight and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number Six escapes during the chaos that follows.After witnessing the trials of Number Two and Number Forty-Eight and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number Six escapes during the chaos that follows.After witnessing the trials of Number Two and Number Forty-Eight and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number Six escapes during the chaos that follows.
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I just wonder one thing, out of curiosity. Although I "got" the various allusions to different concepts of "1," and "I" as Steve mentioned, I must confess that I missed the relationship to the word "Aye." I DID see all the others, and I wonder if he noted one more. People often refer to themselves as #1. I could not be sure if Steve meant that, too, when he said #1 in his review. The self as #1, meaning "I'm the most important person in my opinion," or "looking out for #1," that sort of thing, was my first clue to the puns all those years ago when I watched The Prisoner for the first time in stunned admiration.
It was always one of the sadnesses of my life that I never got to meet the brilliant Mr. McGoohan, although we both lived in Southern California at the same time; and another that I have not yet been able to visit Portmeirion - although I have some of the eponymous dishes designed so beautifully by Ms. Susan WIlliams-Ellis.
The Prisoner, and this episode in particular, still stands alone as the most intriguingly surreal television program ever.
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- TriviaAccording to Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, the Beatles were to be in a movie similar to "The Prisoner", written and directed by Patrick McGoohan, but the project fell through. McGoohan was able to convince them to allow their song "All You Need is Love" to be used in the final episode; one of the only times the band permitted their music to be licensed for television.
- GoofsNumber Six walks past the same jukebox twice. It is easily identifiable by the Lesley Gore record in it.
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The President: Contact! Control! Confirm contact priority! Contact priority! Emergency! Contact control! Contact control! Emergency! Contact! Contact control! Emergency! All personnel! Takeover! Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate! Evacuate!
[over the loudspeaker, again and again]
The President: Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate!
- Crazy creditsIn all preceding episodes, the final shot of the closing credits consisted of a view of Rover (the balloon) skimming across the water. For this final episode this was replaced by a still image of the completed bicycle that forms during the credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997)
- SoundtracksDrumdramatics No. 1: Section 1 - Rolling Tympani With Beat
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Written by Robert Farnon
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