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)
| MIT BEITRÄGEN FOLGENDER AUTOREN: |
DAVE BARRIE  |
| FRANK T. BITTERHOF |
| TOBIAS BECKER |
| M. KEITH BOOKER |
| MICHAEL BRÜNE |
| PATRICK DUCHER |
| ROBERT FAIRCLOUGH |
| HOWARD FOY |
| GUILLAUME GRANIER |
| LARRY HALL |
| HARALD KELLER |
| MOOR LARKIN |
| KEVIN P. MAHONEY |
| RICK McGRATH |
| JANA MÜLLER |
| CHRIS RODLEY |
| CHRISTOPH WINDER |
| VALARIE ZIEGLER |
KAR 120 C
The first image, we see an empty highway or a deserted airfield; dark heavy thunderclouds looming. A yellow-and-green Lotus Super 7 sportscar approaches and passes speedily. The man's face inside the car expresses firm determination. The City of London. The man is on his most important mission, he is about to see his boss.
An underground
car park. Underlining his strides through
a long dark corridor pounding strikes of thunder then underscore his enraged gestures and words as 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 getting his suitcases ready. A 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.
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The Café
Awake again he finds himself in the familiar yet entirely different place and 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. In almost every episode Number Six would then encounter a new Number Two setting out to manipulate and outwit him for apparently just one reason: why he resigned from duty and - even much more - what information there was in his head. Numbers Six attempts to escape but to no avail. His concern is with the mysterious Village superior calles Number One.
There is more on linguistic aspects of the German TV and DVD version of THE PRISONER.
