The Prisoner

The Prisoner

1967
7.7
2 Seasons
Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery

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.

Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Ep 1

Arrival

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

Episode 2
Ep 2

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
Ep 3

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
Ep 4

Free for All

Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

Episode 5
Ep 5

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
Ep 6

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
Ep 7

Many Happy Returns

Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

Episode 8
Ep 8

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
Ep 9

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
Ep 10

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
Ep 11

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
Ep 12

A Change of Mind

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

Episode 13
Ep 13

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
Ep 14

Living in Harmony

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

Episode 15
Ep 15

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
Ep 16

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
Ep 17

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.

Cast

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan

Number Six