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.
Episodes
1Arrival
50 minSep 29, 1967★ 7.7
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
2The Chimes of Big Ben
50 minOct 6, 1967★ 8.3
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
3A., B. and C.
50 minOct 13, 1967
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.
4Free for All
50 minOct 20, 1967★ 7.8
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
5The Schizoid Man
50 minOct 27, 1967
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.
6The General
50 minNov 3, 1967
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.
7Many Happy Returns
50 minNov 10, 1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
8Dance of the Dead
50 minNov 17, 1967
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.
9Checkmate
50 minNov 24, 1967
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.
10Hammer into Anvil
50 minDec 1, 1967
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
11It's Your Funeral
50 minDec 8, 1967
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.
12A Change of Mind
50 minDec 15, 1967
After 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 Darling
50 minDec 22, 1967
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.
14Living in Harmony
50 minDec 29, 1967
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
15The Girl Who Was Death
50 minJan 19, 1968
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
16Once Upon a Time
50 minJan 26, 1968
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.
17Fall Out
51 minFeb 2, 1968
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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