The Village (The Prisoner) Portmeirion. In the TV series "2Point4 Children", the episode "Seven Dials" sees one of the main characters Ben played by Gary Olson wake up in the Village at a "Prisoner" convention, as part of an ongoing and increasingly surreal vendetta plot with rival plumber Jake Klinger, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack. In the TV series "The Invisible Man" (2000), the episode "A Sense of Community" featured a village called "The Community" where troublesome spies were forced to 'retire' to. The Village is recreated in the late-1970s Edu-Ware computer game, "The Prisoner" and its sequel, "Prisoner 2". In both games, however, the
Spode under Richard Champion's patent, were producing hard paste similar to Oriental porcelain. The technique was developed by adding calcined bone to this glassy frit, for example in the productions of Bow porcelain and Chelsea porcelain, and this was carried on from at least the 1750s onwards. Soapstone porcelains further added steatite, known as French chalk, for instance at Worcester and Caughley factories. The bone porcelains, especially those of Spode, Minton, Davenport and Coalport, eventually established the standards for soft-paste porcelain which were later (after 1800) maintained widely. Although the Bow porcelain factory, Chelsea porcelain factory, Royal Worcester and Royal Crown