Episode
The Prisoner: Free for All
Overview
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Details
- Series
- The Prisoner
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1967-10-20
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Free for All is Episode 4 in Series 1 of The Prisoner. It aired on 1967-10-20. The runtime is 50 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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 1: Arrival
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
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.