Series · 1967 · 1 Season
The Prisoner
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.
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10
- Creator
- Patrick McGoohan
- Status
- Ended
Episodes
Episode 1 · 50 min
Arrival
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Episode 2 · 50 min
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 3 · 50 min
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 4 · 50 min
Free for All
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Episode 5 · 50 min
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 6 · 50 min
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 7 · 50 min
Many Happy Returns
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Episode 8 · 50 min
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 · 50 min
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 · 50 min
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 · 50 min
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 · 50 min
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 · 50 min
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 14 · 50 min
Living in Harmony
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Episode 15 · 50 min
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.
Episode 16 · 50 min
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.
Episode 17 · 51 min
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.
