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Subject: Re: The Prisoner Returns
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 15:53:06 EST
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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