The Prisoner

1967 star 7.7 tv1 Season play_circle17 Episodes

No man is just a number.

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.

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery

tv Seasons & Episodes

Episode 1
E1

Arrival

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

Sep 29, 1967

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Episode 2
E2

The Chimes of Big Ben

A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.

Oct 6, 1967

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Episode 3
E3

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.

Oct 13, 1967

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Episode 4
E4

Free for All

Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

Oct 20, 1967

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Episode 5
E5

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.

Oct 27, 1967

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Episode 6
E6

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.

Nov 3, 1967

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Episode 7
E7

Many Happy Returns

Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

Nov 10, 1967

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Episode 8
E8

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.

Nov 17, 1967

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Episode 9
E9

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.

Nov 24, 1967

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Episode 10
E10

Hammer into Anvil

Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.

Dec 1, 1967

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Episode 11
E11

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.

Dec 8, 1967

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Episode 12
E12

A Change of Mind

After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."

Dec 15, 1967

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Episode 13
E13

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.

Dec 22, 1967

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Episode 14
E14

Living in Harmony

Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.

Dec 29, 1967

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Episode 15
E15

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.

Jan 19, 1968

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Episode 16
E16

Once Upon a Time

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.

Jan 26, 1968

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Episode 17
E17

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.

Feb 2, 1968

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people Cast

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan

Number Six

apartment Production Companies

apartment Everyman Films
ITC Entertainment ITC Entertainment

public Countries

United Kingdom