Concerning the bicycle as an occult symbol, skip to 1:47 for the close and watch the imagery.
“The Prisoner”opening and close
Concerning the bicycle as an occult symbol, skip to 1:47 for the close and watch the imagery.
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How interesting.Thanks!
The iconic flying bicycle moving across the moon in silhouette in “ET” also comes to mind.
The first comment under your clip gave food for thought as well:
“The high-wheeled bicycle is considered to be “an ironic symbol of progress” in this show; it was a prop usually seen in the control room of The Village, and is closely associated with No. 6’s captors. Like the outward manifestations of The Village itself, the bike appears normal, harmless, reassuring, even quaint — but it DISTRACTS ONE from recognizing the existence of the creepy, intrusive, antiseptic, morally ambiguous, highly-technocratic, and potentially violent mechanisms of social control that lie just beyond ones’ sight, ready to swoop if need be.
There is suggested a sharp dichotomy between our “genuine”, slow-paced past based on human relationships, rugged individualism, and aesthetics, and a soulless modern era emphasizing division, distrust, and conformity at the same time. This dichotomy, which was only then emerging in Britain and the West as it had earlier in the USSR, was among McGoohan’s main themes in producing the show.”