Episode

The Prisoner: The General

Name: The Prisoner: The General
Released: 1967-11-03
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Fenella Fielding, Leo McKern

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Overview

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.

Details

Series: The Prisoner
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 6
Air date: 1967-11-03
Runtime: 50 min

Episode context

The General is Episode 6 in Series 1 of The Prisoner. It aired on 1967-11-03. The runtime is 50 min.

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Episode 5: The Schizoid Man 1967-10-27 | 50 min 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 7: Many Happy Returns 1967-11-10 | 50 min Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

More episodes from this season

Episode 4: Free for All 1967-10-20 | 50 min Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

Episode 8: Dance of the Dead 1967-11-17 | 50 min 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 3: A., B. and C. 1967-10-13 | 50 min 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 9: Checkmate 1967-11-24 | 50 min 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 2: The Chimes of Big Ben 1967-10-06 | 50 min A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.

Episode 10: Hammer into Anvil 1967-12-01 | 50 min Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.

Episode 1: Arrival 1967-09-29 | 50 min After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

Episode 11: It's Your Funeral 1967-12-08 | 50 min 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 1967-12-15 | 50 min 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 1967-12-22 | 50 min 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.