Alain Carrazé
Forfatter af The Prisoner: A Televisionary Masterpiece
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But there is interesting detail of the actual production process, such as the division of filming for blocks of episodes between Portmeirion and the studio; and the background to the show's genesis, coming out of the earlier Danger Man* series, is illuminating. It was never directly stated that The Prisoner was a direct sequel to Danger Man, but it seems that everyone connected with the shows, including Patrick McGoohan himself, worked on that assumption. The show certainly started out as a thematic sequel, putting a prime-time family entertainment spy story on tv screens; but as time went by, McGoohan pushed the allegorical and philosophical sides of the show further into the foreground.
The show was actually cancelled as from episode 13, but for contractual reasons four more episodes were commissioned, including McGoohan's controversial final episodes, Once Upon a Time and Fall Out. In retrospect, revealing Number One to be some fiendish James Bond-style villain who we had never previously seen would have been a cop-out. Number One had to be someone closely connected with the story of the Prisoner himself; ultimately, finding out that Number Six's captor is Number Six is the only possible ending.
*Secret Agent in the USA.… (mere)