Series
The Prisoner
“No man is just a number.”
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyMystery
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.
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Seasons & episodes
1Arrival29 Sept 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.5After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
2The Chimes of Big Ben6 Oct 1967 · 50m · ★ 8.1A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
3A., B. and C.13 Oct 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.0Number 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.
4Free for All20 Oct 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.5Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
5The Schizoid Man27 Oct 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.8Number 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.
6The General3 Nov 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.0An 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.
7Many Happy Returns10 Nov 1967 · 50m · ★ 6.8Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
8Dance of the Dead17 Nov 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.0Number 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.
9Checkmate24 Nov 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.2Inspired by a large chess game with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number 6 formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.
10Hammer into Anvil1 Dec 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.6Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
11It's Your Funeral8 Dec 1967 · 50m · ★ 6.5Number 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.
12A Change of Mind15 Dec 1967 · 50m · ★ 7.0After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
13Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling22 Dec 1967 · 50m · ★ 6.0With 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.
14Living in Harmony29 Dec 1967 · 50m · ★ 5.4Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
15The Girl Who Was Death19 Jan 1968 · 50m · ★ 6.4Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
16Once Upon a Time26 Jan 1968 · 50m · ★ 7.0Because 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.
17Fall Out2 Feb 1968 · 51m · ★ 6.5After witnessing the trials of Number 2 and Number 48 and meeting the President of the Assembly, Number 6 escapes during the chaos that follows.
Details
- Created by
- Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein
- First aired
- 29 Sept 1967
- Last aired
- 2 Feb 1968
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- ITV1
- Episodes
- 17
- Votes
- 222 on TMDB
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Cast
Patrick McGoohanNumber Six
