Number Six Takes His Children To The Beach

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

27 thoughts on “Number Six Takes His Children To The Beach”

  2. This makes two straight videos that I’ve been able to hear, but not see. Anyone have a suggestion?

  4. It worked for me…and scared me to death. Putting children into huge beach balls and throwing them into the water…not the smartest idea.

  5. Number 6: I am number six.
    Homer: I am not a number! I am a man!…Oh wait…I’m number five. IN YOUR FACE NUMBER SIX!
    Seriously, go out and rent or borrow all seventeen episodes of The Prisoner. Cheesy 60’s effects, but an excellent show.

  7. BabyBro raves about that show since reruns ran on TV back in the early ’90s. I’ve never seen it, though.

  9. Ummm…..
    How do they breath? Running in a watertight plastic ball must use up the oxygen.
    Unzip the pod door, HAL.
    But Dave, you’re bubble is running out of air and you have no helmet.

  11. The Firefox (www.mozilla.com) browser used to be buggy about playing videos. I haven’t had any problems since FF2.0 came out. If all else fails, fire up (evil) Internet Explorer.
    I see at imdb.com that “The Prisoner” is available in DVD. Cool.

  13. No good, Brian. I use Internet Explorer, and it isn’t working.
    Bill912,
    Are you under any kind of firewall?

  14. Try depressing the “control” key as you click the “play video” button and then be patient for a moment. On my computer, it’s a pop-up issue.

  16. Hmm . . . interesting. Child Occupied Beach Balls. Or, “C.O.B.B.” for short. Perhaps this is a veiled reference to “Cobb,” the former colleague that Number 6 meets in the first episode.
    It may also be a reference to the second episode, “Chimes Of Big Ben” which has the same initials.
    The more you watch the show, the more connections like this you start to see.

  18. Fans of the prisoner should check out “The PrisonBear”. So a search for it on YouTube. Someone with a lot of time on his hands has encapsulated several Prisoner Episodes into two episodes of The PrisonBear, which is performed completely by plush animals…and yes, filmed on location at PortMeirion.
    Be Seeing you!

  22. This looks like such an incredibly bad idea. It’s got to air tight to work at all (limiting your oxygen) and if you happen to puncture it on anything (rocks, tree branches, your own keys which you forgot to take out of your pocket) you’re absolutely screwed. Eesh.

  24. I subscribe to Yahoo and I have a Mac. But I still get only sound.
    (Maybe my Mac’s not shiny enough. Would it help if I sprinkled it with holy water?)

  25. Yahoo subscription not required. My shiny non-Yahoo-enabled iMac, running the latest version of OS X, has no problem.
    Holy water unlikely to help, but not likely to harm either, unless applied very, very heavily.

  26. Hey there, SDG!
    Actually caught you on Life on the Rock!
    Just a suggestion though, you might want to ask that they replace the picture they’ve got of you, the one they put up when you’re telling the reviews of a movie over the phone.
    I didn’t know exactly what you were looking at during the time it was taken, but it almost appeared as though you were looking out into space! ;^)

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