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An original call canvas , a working playscript , and a Number 240 property badge used in one episode of cult telecasting show The Prisoner are up at auction .
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It is potential that Chiswick Auctions did n’t precisely acknowledge what they had on their manus . Or how rare and especial it is that something like this do onto the mart . An original script from the fabled boob tube showThe Prisoner , along with a prop badge as worn in the show and a call mainsheet from the shoot , all from actressNorma West . She wreak Number 240 , an official observer of Number 6 in instalment 8,The daylight Of The Dead . They listed it with an estimate of £ 100-£150;it has now just jumped northward of £ 2500 , and once the secret is out , it could go a lot higher .
Norma Westposted to Instagram , " I had the cracking dependable fortune to be given a endearing part in the serial The Prisoner , which starred Patrick McGoohan . It was the most wonderful experience . I kept the hand , a call sheet and my badge . Alas the fourth dimension has come to part with my collection of memories and they will go up for auction at Chiswick Auctions .. a time on-line auction from May 2 -May 18 . "
Thr lose is lean as " Original typed hand for the episode ' Dance of the Dead ' ( season 1 , episode 8) of the British scientific discipline fiction series ' The Prisoner ' , starring Patrick McGoohan , some handling habiliment , original wrapper , quarto ; with original call rag and original badge ( 3 ) PROVENANCE : From the collection of actress Norma West , who star in the episode . "
The Prisonerwas a television receiver serial make byPatrick McGoohanin which he plays Number Six , an nameless British intelligence activity agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a occult coastal settlement after resigning from his position . A single series of 17 episode was made and broadcast in 1967 , filmed in Wales . A phantasmagorical adventure series , it has gain a furore following and has been rather influential in the decades that followed .
Norma Westis best know for playing Queen Elizabeth of York in the BBC seriesThe Shadow of the Towerin 1972 , but is also fondly call back in her role inThe Prisoner . She also appear inThe Prisoner ’s predecessor , Danger Man , as well as television receiver function inMr . Rose , Ace of Wands , Crown Court , A Touch of Frost , Lovejoy , The Ruth Rendell Mysteries , The Case - Book of Sherlock Holmes : The Master Blackmailer , The Murder at the VicaragewithJoan Hickson , played Hilary inSmiley ’s Peoplein 1982 and Wilhelmina Lawson inAgatha Christie ’s Poirot – Dumb Witnessin 1996 . Film roles includedSpaceflight IC-1,The Projected Man , Battle Beneath the Earth , persist a Crooked Mile , Man at the Top , Why pip the Teacher?andAnd the Ship Sails Onthrough the LX , seventies , and eighties . She is now recede , living in Spain .
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