I love this analysis, but in particular, I love your description of 6. It hadn't struck me that his garb was rather priestly, or that "being immune to all seductions" was an accurate description of what he does in most episodes -- and the range of possible seductions is really staggering; they offer him all sorts of complex roles and roleplays, friends, lovers, a new body, a computer, and a clone of himself.

The comparison/contrast with the cast of RHPS is genius, and when you put it this way, it's hard to imagine that any piece of subversive English pop culture of around this vintage didn't have any Prisoner influence given what a monoculture England was at the time and how many people tuned in at least to "Fall Out."