The Prisoner

Drama•Sci-Fi & Fantasy•Mystery

1967 50m TV-PG 7.7

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

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Episodes

E1

Arrival

50m

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

Sep 29, 1967

E2

The Chimes of Big Ben

50m

A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.

Oct 6, 1967

E3

A., B. and C.

50m

Number 2 believes that Number 6 resigned because he was going to sell out. Using dream manipulation, Number 2 tries to determine which one of three possible candidates Number 6 was dealing with.

Oct 13, 1967

E4

Free for All

50m

Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

Oct 20, 1967

E5

The Schizoid Man

50m

Number Six wakes up with a new identity. Now he's Number Twelve. Worse, Number Two asks him to impersonate someone--Number Six. But the new Number Six is more like him than he is.

Oct 27, 1967

E6

The General

50m

An instant learning process becomes the Village's latest fad, but Number 6 is sure that Number 2 is using it as a brain washing tool.

Nov 3, 1967

E7

Many Happy Returns

50m

Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

Nov 10, 1967

E8

Dance of the Dead

50m

Number 6 comes across a body that has washed ashore with a radio. After sending the body back out to sea, he tries to use the radio to get rescued.

Nov 17, 1967

E9

Checkmate

50m

Inspired by a large chess game with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number 6 formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.

Nov 24, 1967

E10

Hammer into Anvil

50m

Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.

Dec 1, 1967

E11

It's Your Funeral

50m

Number Six hears of an assassination plot against Number Two, but it's the new Number Two doing all the plotting against the retiring Number Two.

Dec 8, 1967

E12

A Change of Mind

50m

After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."

Dec 15, 1967

E13

Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

50m

With his mind transferred to another body, Number 6 wakes up in his London flat and can't convince his colleagues who he is. He takes off to Austria to find the one man who can help him, the person Number 2 wants him to find.

Dec 22, 1967

E14

Living in Harmony

50m

Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.

Dec 29, 1967

E15

The Girl Who Was Death

50m

Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.

Jan 19, 1968

E16

Once Upon a Time

50m

Because all other attempts to break Number 6 have failed, Number 2 decides to engage him in a game where one of them will end up dead.

Jan 26, 1968

E17

Fall Out

51m

After witnessing the trials of Number 2 and Number 48 and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number 6 escapes during the chaos that follows.

Feb 2, 1968

Cast

Patrick McGoohan

Number Six

Angelo Muscat

Le majordome

Peter Swanwick

The Supervisor

FF

Fenella Fielding

Loudspeaker Announcer

Leo McKern

Former Number Two

Christopher Benjamin

Number Two's Assistant, Labour Exchange Manager, Potter

Grace Arnold

Number Thirty Six, Maid

Colin Gordon

Number Two

Alexis Kanner

Number Forty Eight / The Kid

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