Episode
The Prisoner: Checkmate
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Prisoner
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1967-11-24
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Checkmate is Episode 9 in Series 1 of The Prisoner. It aired on 1967-11-24. The runtime is 50 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 7: Many Happy Returns
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
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 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 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 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 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 4: Free for All
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Episode 14: Living in Harmony
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
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 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.