TV series
The Prisoner
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 1967-09-29
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 17 episodes
- Genres
- Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery
- Network
- ITV1
- Production
- Everyman Films, ITC Entertainment
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Patrick McGoohan as Number Six
- Angelo Muscat as Le majordome
- Peter Swanwick as The Supervisor
- Fenella Fielding as Loudspeaker Announcer
- Leo McKern as Former Number Two
- Christopher Benjamin as Number Two's Assistant
- Grace Arnold as Number Thirty Six
- Colin Gordon as Number Two
- Alexis Kanner as Number Forty Eight / The Kid
- Denis Shaw as Shopkeeper
- John Cazabon as Umbrella Man
- Patsy Smart as Waitress
Creators and crew
- Patrick McGoohan - Creator
- George Markstein - Creator
- David Tomblin - Producer
- Patrick McGoohan - Producer
- Patrick McGoohan - Director
- Pat Jackson - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Arrival
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Episode 2: The Chimes of Big Ben
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
Episode 3: A., B. and C.
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.
Episode 4: Free for All
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Episode 5: The Schizoid Man
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.
Episode 6: The General
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.
Episode 7: Many Happy Returns
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Episode 8: Dance of the Dead
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.
Episode 9: Checkmate
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.
Episode 10: Hammer into Anvil
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
Episode 11: It's Your Funeral
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.
Episode 12: A Change of Mind
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
Episode 13: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
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.
Episode 14: Living in Harmony
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
Episode 16: Once Upon a Time
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.
Episode 17: Fall Out
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.
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