The Prisoner
No man is just a number.
Overview
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.
Cast
Episodes
Episode 1 · 50m
Arrival
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Sep 29, 1967
Episode 2 · 50m
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
Episode 3 · 50m
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
Episode 4 · 50m
Free for All
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Oct 20, 1967
Episode 5 · 50m
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
Episode 6 · 50m
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
Episode 7 · 50m
Many Happy Returns
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Nov 10, 1967
Episode 8 · 50m
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
Episode 9 · 50m
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
Episode 10 · 50m
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
Episode 11 · 50m
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
Episode 12 · 50m
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
Episode 13 · 50m
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
Episode 14 · 50m
Living in Harmony
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Dec 29, 1967
Episode 15 · 50m
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
Episode 16 · 50m
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
Episode 17 · 51m
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
