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He had originally planned to do 7 episodes and stop. ITV wanted 22 eps but McGoohan trimmed it down to 17. He actually wrote quite a few eps himself under various nom de plumes.

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He had originally planned to do 7 episodes and stop. ITV wanted 22 eps but McGoohan trimmed it down to 17. He actually wrote quite a few eps himself under various nom de plumes.

So I was talking total pish. Couldn't have been more wrong in fact.

That makes sence.

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From Wiki:

{According to author James Follett, a protege of Prisoner co-creator George Markstein, Markstein had mapped out an explanation for the Village. In George Markstein's mind, a young Number Six had once submitted a proposal for how to deal with retired secret agents who posed a security risk. Six's idea was to create a comfortable retirement centre where former agents could live out their final years, enduring firm but unintrusive surveillance.

Years later, Six discovered that his idea had been put into practice, and not as a benign means of retirement, but as an interrogation centre and a prison camp. Outraged, Six staged his own resignation, knowing he would be brought to the Village, hoping he could learn everything he could of how his idea had been implemented and expanded upon and find a way to destroy it. However, due to the range of nationalities and agents present in the Village, Six realized he was not sure whose Village he was in -- the one brought about by his own people, or by the other side. Presumably, Markstein intended this revelation to follow Once Upon A Time. However, Markstein's falling out with McGoohan resulted in Markstein's departure, and his original intent was discarded.

According to Markstein: "The Prisoner was going to leave the Village and he was going to have adventures in many parts of the world, but ultimately he would always be a prisoner. By that I don't mean he would always go back to the Village. He would always be a prisoner of his circumstances, his situation, his secret, his background... and 'they' would always be there to ensure that his captivity continues."}

This never came to fruition though. The popular consensus (wading through all of the gobbledegook) is that Number 6's ordeals in the Village were his initiation to his finally becoming Number 1. However, the final ep was a total headfuck and entirely open to interpetation. So your guess is as good as mine.

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That actually makes sense.

Including the headfuck bit.