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The Prisoner: Fall Out (1968)
Fine climax
My father who in the 1960's worked on a number of film studio productions in the art and engineering Dept, as well as briefly on screen, corroborated the story linked to the final episode of the Prisoner.
He was on good terms with Patrick McGoohan who would take breaks between shoots by snoozing on a table in Shepperton. Turned out to be the same place that I many years later would be having quick nap when I was acting at Shepperton in Inkheart! For the final episode Patrick hadn't written much, and the deadline was getting closer and closer. Finally he and a co writer had to stay up all night to complete the script. This rush explains why there are some even more surreal scenes than usual. The piece with all the singing been a case in point.
Number 6 has a disturbing problem which skews this episode away from Number 5's eternal struggle to showing that the System may be about to crumble.
Then the episode goes into even greater flights as one of the most psychedelic works of the decade. Just remember it wasn't planned. More of a case of stream of consciousness to complete a script that was urgently needed.