Product Description

In each episode of the classic series The Prisoner, Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) tried to escape from the bizarre, hi-tech complex known only as the Village. If only he'd had access to this book! For here, smuggled at great risk from Number 2's Green Dome, are the Top Secret Village plans, blueprints and files, Detailed schematics of Village buildings, devices, vehicles and equipment; cutaway illustrations; Rover attack vectors; hidden camera placements; personnel lists and details of interrogation techniques - it's all here, along with a special file on the Village's most prized prisoner: Number 6. A brilliantly conceived, beautifully designed book that no Prisoner fan will be able to escape having, this is the ultimate companion to the ultimate cult tv series!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #407826 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

About the Author
Tim Palgut lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he works in film and 3D animation. He has watched The Prisoner many, many times.

Customer Reviews

For any prisoner fan-the secret is out.
I bought this book on spec after the magnificent Complete Prisoner book by Robert Fairclough and found it, at first to be disappointing. Now after watching the DVD and reading the Fairclough book again, I now looked over The Village Files book and have enjoyed it.

After the acknowledements and well come pages you go to Power Control, Habitation, Going Under, Sciences and other catagory pages.

The various pages have brilliant diagarams (schematics) of No 2's floor plan, throne and console (seat and desk), behind the desk and the console panel with the numbers and keys to the information. You also go into the Control Room including the Sea-Saw chair with its control parts. There is also a page on Reactive Orange-alert Vigilant EnforceR (ROVER) with its statistics and attack patterns.

There are some good monochrome photos and the map of the village is also there with the free information (as seen on Arrival) but SpeakerPoll, SignPost, Telephone and its Kiosk is not that informative or useful. The Town Hall complex and labour Exchange are good floor plans as is the Hospital (all floors) and No 6's Residence with added plans of all concealed camera locations. The Badge detail and clothing is very good as well as the Kosho Arena to give insite into the Village life and the transcript is the opening scenes of the program (Where am I? In the Village. etc) as well as the opening statement No 6 makes at Arrival and including the trial scene in The Girl Who Was Death.

The dissapointment comes when pages are wasted on the transport,
Lotus 7 and stats, the helicopter, taxi (Mini-Molks), speed boat and tractor which I think were just page fillers. No 6's London House would have been good (we see it in the opening scene of the intro and Many Happy Returns) as well as a more detailed map and possable world locations.

For any prisoner fan this book will be interesting.
All in all it is a good book but more time could have been spent on more informative drawings and plans.