Episode
The Prisoner: Once Upon a Time
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Prisoner
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1968-01-26
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Once Upon a Time is Episode 16 in Series 1 of The Prisoner. It aired on 1968-01-26. The runtime is 50 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: Living in Harmony
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
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 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 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 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 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 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 7: Many Happy Returns
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
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 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.