The Penny Farthing - The Symbol of The Village


15. The Girl Who Was Death

Number 6 finds himself up against Sonia, a born killer and as he is a born survivor someone has to give sooner or later!Sonia makes another attempt to kill Number 6, will she succeed?

Number 6 takes over from the victim of an exlploding cricket ball who was investigating the activities of a crazed scientist who is planning to destroy London using a rocket which he has constructed.

What happens as our man follows the various clues which are left by Sonia, Number 6 follows Sonia to the empty town of Witchwood, where she attempts more unusual ways of killing himare more attempts on Number 6's life which he escapes every time. It leads to a car chase and a helicopter ride to Doctor Schnipp's hideout which is located in a lighthouse!

The Doctor, it transpires, is Sonia's father and has a Napoleon fixation. Number 6 is found out after passing as a guard and tied to a chair to await certain death when the rocket (which is the lighthouse itself) hits London.

Number 6 manages to escape and foils their evil plan, just in time to save the day. But how on earth is all this connected with The Village.......?

 

Credits

Written by Terence Feely from an idea by David Tomblin

Produced by David Tomblin

Directed by David Tomblin

Stars

Kenneth Griffith as Doctor Schnipps

Patrick McGoohan - Number Six

 Justine Lord - Sonia Schnipps

Kenneth Griffith - Doctor Schnipps

Trivia

The character of Potter, Number 6's contact, was also a character in the Danger Man episodes 'Koroshi' and 'Shinda Shima' and played by the same actor Christopher Benjamin.

The cricket bowler was called 'John Drake', McGoohan's character in Danger Man!!

Alexis Kanner makes another appearance as the photographer at the fairground which was filmed at 'The Kursaal' funfair at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.