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The Prisoner

No man is just a number.

Created by Patrick McGoohanPatrick McGoohan
The Prisoner poster
29 Sep 1967First aired
1Season
PGBBFC rating
7.7TMDB score of 10

The series

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.

Episodes

Season 1 · 17 episodes · 1967

Highest rated this season: episode 2, “The Chimes of Big Ben”, 8.1 out of 10 on TMDB.
  1. Episode 129 Sep 196750m

    Arrival

    7.6 / 10

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

  2. Episode 26 Oct 196750m

    The Chimes of Big Ben

    8.1 / 10

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

  3. Episode 313 Oct 196750m

    A., B. and C.

    7.0 / 10

    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.

  4. Episode 420 Oct 196750m

    Free for All

    7.5 / 10

    Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

  5. Episode 527 Oct 196750m

    The Schizoid Man

    7.8 / 10

    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.

  6. Episode 63 Nov 196750m

    The General

    7.0 / 10

    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.

  7. Episode 710 Nov 196750m

    Many Happy Returns

    6.8 / 10

    Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

  8. Episode 817 Nov 196750m

    Dance of the Dead

    7.0 / 10

    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.

  9. Episode 924 Nov 196750m

    Checkmate

    7.2 / 10

    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.

  10. Episode 101 Dec 196750m

    Hammer into Anvil

    7.6 / 10

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

  11. Episode 118 Dec 196750m

    It's Your Funeral

    6.5 / 10

    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.

  12. Episode 1215 Dec 196750m

    A Change of Mind

    7.0 / 10

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

  13. Episode 1322 Dec 196750m

    Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

    6.0 / 10

    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.

  14. Episode 1429 Dec 196750m

    Living in Harmony

    5.4 / 10

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

  15. Episode 1519 Jan 196850m

    The Girl Who Was Death

    6.4 / 10

    Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.

  16. Episode 1626 Jan 196850m

    Once Upon a Time

    7.0 / 10

    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.

  17. Episode 172 Feb 196851m

    Fall Out

    6.5 / 10

    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.

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