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The Prisoner Nummer 6

The sediments at the bottom of television: series and serials, omnipresent and almost as infinite as the medium itself. Few only were successfull in touching the underside of our attentiveness.
UNWAHRSCHEINLICHE GESCHICHTEN ("Improbable Stories") was one that did, the classic TWILIGHT ZONE.
Anything associated with the expression TV-magic applies to this.

Phantastic television of the sixties, among other things, is one conjuring formula:
"Be seeing you!" or
L'année dernière
au Village:

Contributing authors:
(German knowledge required)

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An empty highway, a deserted airfield; dark heavy thunderclouds looming. A yellow-and-green Lotus Super 7 approaches, passes speedily. The man inside the car expresses firm determination on his face. The City of London. The man is on his most important mission, he is about to see his boss.

An underground car park. Pounding strikes of thunder underlining first his strides through a long dark corridor, then his enraged gestures and words, he dashed his resignation papers on the desk, quits and heads home.
Next a hearse is seen pulling up behind his car. The man rushes into his home and packs his suitcases. An man in undertaker garb enters his house. White fog suddenly penetrates through the keyhole causing the man to stagger and fall getting a last glimpse on the City of London's highrises. Cut.

< The Café

Awake again he finds himself in the familiar yet entirely different place where an unforgettable prologue sets up the tone of the things to come:

- Wo bin ich?
- Sie sind da.
- Was wollen sie?
- Informationen.
- Auf wessen seite sind sie?
- Wir sind auf der richtigen seite. Wir wollen informationen, informationen.
- Ich sage nichts.
- So oder so, sie werden sprechen.
- Wer sind sie?
- Die neue Nummer Zwei.
- Wer ist Nummer Eins?
- Sie sind Nummer Sechs.
- Ich bin keine nummer, ich bin ein freier mensch!
- Ha, ha, ha...!

Number Six, never that we get to learn his real name, is not going to cooperate. Almost every episode Number Six encounters a new Number Two who sets out to manipulate and outwit him for just one reason: why he resigned from duty and - even much more - what information there is in his head. Numbers Six escapes but to no avail. His concern is with the mysterious Number One.

There is more on linguistic aspects of the German TV and DVD version of THE PRISONER.

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