Did you ever notice in "Fall Out" that you don't actually see No. 6, the Butler and the Supervisor walk through the large wooden door and into the underground chamber? Or, did you ever wonder why the door was wooden on one side, yet the other side (with the "WELL COME" sign) was metallic?
The fact is, it's not the same door, and you didn't see the three walk through it because several scenes involving a bizarre encounter in an intervening corridor were originally scripted and filmed, but later cut from this segment of episode.
Presented below are the missing scenes, along with two rare photographs taken during the filming of these scenes, one which shows the actual other side of the "WELL COME" door.
(from the "Fall Out" script, beginning near the end of scene 17, as the
trio have just passed the jukeboxes and are about to open the large wooden
door...):
THE BUTLER PUTS IN THE KEY AND TURNS IT. THE DOOR BEGINS
TO OPEN -
CS - P (closeup on No. 6) 18
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NEW LIGHT SLIDES ACROSS HIS FACE. IN FLASHES. THE SOUND
OF MUSIC IS DROWNED BY THE ROAR OF GASOLINE ENGINES AT HIGH
REVERBERATION.
INT. ROCK-FACED CORRIDOR. DAY 19
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THEY ENTER. THE BUTLER CLOSES THE DOOR. ON EITHER SIDE ARE
WHAT APPEAR TO BE JUNCTION CORRIDORS. P LOOKS AHEAD.
HIS POV (No. 6's Point of View) 20
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A LONG BARE CORRIDOR. BROAD WHITE LINE DOWN CENTRE. THERE IS
MUCH TRAFFIC IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. VILLAGE TRACTORS. PUSH-BIKES.
RALEIGH "WISPS". HEADLIGHTS ARE ON. HORNS TOOT. ALL DRIVERS
WEAR "WET SUITS", GOGGLES AND BLACK CRASH HELMETS, WHITE BELTS
AND TRUNCHEONS. AT THE FAR END OF THE CORRIDOR A HUGE
ILLUMINATED SIGN THAT READS:
IN GREEN: - GO
IN AMBER: - WAIT
IN RED: - STOP
IT IS NOW ON "GO".
SUPERVISOR
Wait !
THEY WAIT. THE SIGN CHANGES TO AMBER. TRAFFIC SLOWS.
CHANGES TO RED. EVERYTHING STOPS.
SUPERVISOR
Keep to the line.
P SETS OUT ALONG THE WHITE LINE. ANGELO FOLLOWING,
SUPERVISOR BRINGING UP THE REAR. THEY GET HALFWAY
ALONG THE CORRIDOR. THE SIGN READS AMBER. ENGINES
REV UP.
SUPERVISOR
Slow.
P KEEPS GOING. THE SIGN READS "GO". VEHICLES TAKE OFF.
ANGELO AND SUPERVISOR STOP. P KEEPS MOVING.
SUPERVISOR
Stop !
VEHICLES NO LONGER HOLD TO THEIR PROPER SIDE OF THE "ROAD".
THEY ACCELERATE CRAZILY IN ALL DIRECTIONS. HORNS BLARE.
P HOLDS ON HIS COURSE. IT IS A HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. HE
REACHES THE SIGN, COMES TO A HALT. VEHICLES BUZZ IN LEFT
AND RIGHT FROM JUNCTION CORRIDORS. THE SIGN CHANGES TO
AMBER. TRAFFIC SLOWS. TO RED. IT STOPS. SUPERVISOR AND
ANGELO MOVE TO JOIN P.
SUPERVISOR
You mustn't.
P
I must.
THE SIGN READS BACK TO "GO". TRAFFIC TAKES OFF. THEY SWING
TURN AND QUEUE UP BEHIND P, THE SUPERVISOR AND ANGELO. THE
SIGN READS "STOP". IT SWINGS OPEN LIKE A DOOR. THE REVERSE
SIDE CARRIES AN ILLUMINATED -
"WELL
COME"
The next shot, which actually appeared in "Fall Out," is from the end of the above sequence, and shows The Prisoner about to step into the chamber after the "Well Come" door has just swung open. To the rear left can be seen the wooden door, and to the right can be seen some of the wet-suited drivers, now "queued up" (the drivers and the inner corridor can also be seen in the evacuation scene near the end of the episode).
P STEPS INTO:-
INT. THE CHAMBER. DAY. 21
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A VAST CAVERN. STALACTITES GLISTEN ABOVE.....
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