jhc@hou5g.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) (02/11/85)
[] Sorry to contradict, but the real location of The Village (ie where the series was shot) was in a place called Portmeirion, in North Wales (quite near Anglesey and Snowdonia). The place was originally built as a giant folly (hence the baroque combinations of architecture) and people actually live and work (mostly commute) there. I think that you have to pass a screening committee to be allowed to live there, and it is definitely only for the rich. You can visit it - it used to cost 4 pounds sterling to get in. Sometimes you can see pottery in flash gift shops labelled Portmeirion Pottery - it's the same place. I believe that they used the real-life inhabitants of Portmeirion as extras in the shooting of The Prisoner. Now - as to the fictional location - my vote goes for North Australia somewhere. Jonathan Clark [NAC]!hou5g!jhc -- Jonathan Clark [NAC]!hou5g!jhc