| 词条 | The Chimes of Big Ben | |||||
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| title = The Chimes of Big Ben | series = The Prisoner | image = File:Chimes The Prisoner.jpeg | image_size = 250 | alt = Screenshot of the programme titles | caption = | season = 1 | episode = 2 | guests = Number Two – Leo McKern Nadia – Nadia Gray | writer = Vincent Tilsley | director = Don Chaffey | production = 5 | airdate = 6 October 1967 | episode_list = List of The Prisoner episodes | prev = Arrival | next = A. B. and C. }} "The Chimes of Big Ben" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, The Prisoner. It was written by Vincent Tilsley and directed by Don Chaffey and fifth to be produced. It was the second episode to be aired in the UK on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 6 October 1967 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on Saturday 8 June 1968.[1][2] The episode starred Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and introduced Leo McKern as "Number Two". McKern's Number Two would return for the last two episodes of the series.[3] Plot summary{{Quote box|quote= Number Six: Where am I?Number Two: In the Village. Number Six: What do you want? Number Two: Information. Number Six: Whose side are you on? Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information. Number Six: You won't get it. Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will. Number Six: Who are you? Number Two: The new Number Two. Number Six: Who is Number One? Number Two: You are Number Six. Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man! |salign=right|source=Number Six meets Number Two|width=18%|align=right}} The episode opens with the relentlessly cheerful voice of the radio announcer encouraging every Villager to participate in an upcoming crafts show. Number Six is playing chess near the beach when Number Two (Leo McKern) joins him. During their conversation, a helicopter lands and an unconscious woman (Nadia Gray) is taken out on a stretcher. Later, Number Six is invited to The Green Dome where he and Number Two watch the woman wake up on the main viewing screen. Number Two says that she is the new Number Eight and that she will be Number Six's new neighbour. When Number Six returns to his cottage, Number Eight emerges, confused, and asks for directions to The Green Dome. When she returns later, she reveals to him that her name is Nadia, but she is suspicious that he is a Village spy. The day after, Nadia tries to escape by swimming out to sea but is brought back by Rover and interrogated in the hospital. In response, Number Six makes a deal, agreeing to participate more in Village life — for instance, by entering the craft show — if this puts an end to her torture. Number Six and Nadia become closer and eventually plan to escape. She tells him that she knows the location of The Village: On the Baltic coast of Lithuania about {{convert|30|miles}} from the Polish border. At the craft show (where every entry except Number Six's is a depiction of Number Two in some medium), Number Six presents his work, a multi-piece abstract sculpture called "Escape". He is then awarded first prize and uses the "work units" he has won to purchase a tapestry, the entry of one of the other prize winners. At night, he and Nadia escape in his exhibit, which is really a carved boat, using the tapestry as a sail. When they reach land, they meet Nadia's contact. Number Six borrows the contact's watch since his own has stopped. Number Six and Nadia then hide in a packing case as they travel to London. They end up in Number Six's old office and meet his former bosses. When they suspect him of being a double agent, Number Six agrees to tell them why he resigned if Nadia is given protection. However, as he is about to talk, Number Six hears the familiar chimes of Big Ben. He looks at his watch and finds that it shows the same time — not the one hour's difference of the time in Poland. Realising that he has been tricked, he begins a search of the office and discovers a tape recorder recreating the background sounds of London. He exits the building, finding himself back in The Village, with Nadia standing with Number Two — thus revealing she was an operative all along.[1] Cast{{div col}}
Alternative versionDuring the production of the last four episodes of the The Prisoner series (the episode "Living in Harmony" was being made) ITC arranged for a press conference to take place at MGM studios in Borehamwood on 20 September 1967 - a week before the scheduled release on some British TV channels. At the press coverage Patrick McGoohan (at the start wearing his kosho uniform, a made up martial art used in the series) was interviewed inside the cage shown in the episode "Once Upon a Time". Also present was Angelo Muscat, the mute butler seen in many episodes and Alexis Kanner. Two episodes - "Arrival" and "The Chimes of Big Ben" - were played to the press. The alternate version of "The Chimes of Big Ben" includes a sequence that was later cut where Number Six uses a triquetrum (an ancient Greek measuring device) to locate the general position of the Village. The end titles also finished with the smaller wheel of the penny farthing resolving into the Earth while a galaxy of stars fills the bigger wheel and then the canopy on the bicycle. The Earth then expanded to a single word 'POP'. References1. ^1 {{cite book |last=Pixley |first=Andrew |date=2007 |title=The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide |url= |location= |publisher=Network Distributing |page=128 |isbn= |author-link= }} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.anorakzone.com/prisoner/chimes.html |title=The Chimes of Big Ben |author= |website=anorakzone.com |date= |publisher= |accessdate=22 March 2019 }} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Davies |first=Steven Paul |date=2007 |title=The Prisoner Handbook |url= |location= |publisher=Pan |page=78 |isbn=978-0-230-53028-7 |author-link= }} Sources
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