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
The Owl Service (TV series) The Owl Service (TV series) The Owl Service is an eight-part television series based on the fantasy novel of the same name by Alan Garner. Produced in 1969 and televised over the winter of 1969–1970, the series was remarkably bold in terms of production. It was the first fully scripted colour production by Granada Television and was filmed almost entirely on location at a time when almost all TV drama was studio-bound. It used editing techniques such as jump cuts to create a sense of disorientation and also to suggest that two time periods overlapped. For the series, the book