Beware of Rover
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Where am I?"
...We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy. We're at the mercy of the advertiser and of course there are certain things that we need, but a lot of the stuff that is bought is not needed...
...We all live in a little Village... Your village may be different from other people's villages, but we are all prisoners."
- 1977 interview
Following on from Danger Man, this series captured the sinister mood of the era, at the height of the cold war, with many of the leading edge technology of surveillance used by the Soviet and communist countries being applied without No 6 being able to work out whose side was in charge of 'the village' - in itself a comment on the role of the enemy threat in keeping its citizens 'prisoner' in the prevailing political philosophy.
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