Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Daniel_S._Conde.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Daniel_S._Conde.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Prisoner Returns Message-ID: <623@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 15:53:06 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.623 Posted: Wed Feb 13 15:53:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 03:07:12 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 From: Conde.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA > The only thing that bugs me about the show is ROVER, the balloon- > like entity which guards the perimeter of the village. The way I > see it, they needed a believable way to keep the very clever No. 6 > from escaping the island, but is this really believeable? Or am I > being unreasonably picky? > Any thoughts on this? This is what I got from the interview on TV Ontario... Rover was originally a remote controlled "robot vehicle" that actually flipped around, went into water, etc. and did other neat things. However, during the filming of one of the early episodes, Rover went into water, and stayed there. Not being able to fix it in time, the crew was in the jam. Then someone looked up at the sky and saw a weather balloon, and that became rover. PM thought that it came out better with the new Rover than some kind of a mechanical vehicle. Incidentally, there is a Prisoner novel that you could buy, provided you look really hard....I think it's written by Tom Ditsch (sp). Daniel Conde conde.pa@Xerox.ARPA