Series

The Prisoner

1967 · 1 season · 17 episodes · Ended · ITV1

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery

TMDB 7.7 · 217 votes

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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

  • S01E01Arrival1967-09-2950m

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

  • S01E02The Chimes of Big Ben1967-10-0650m

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

  • S01E03A., B. and C.1967-10-1350m

    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.

  • S01E04Free for All1967-10-2050m

    Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

  • S01E05The Schizoid Man1967-10-2750m

    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.

  • S01E06The General1967-11-0350m

    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.

  • S01E07Many Happy Returns1967-11-1050m

    Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

  • S01E08Dance of the Dead1967-11-1750m

    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.

  • S01E09Checkmate1967-11-2450m

    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.

  • S01E10Hammer into Anvil1967-12-0150m

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

  • S01E11It's Your Funeral1967-12-0850m

    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.

  • S01E12A Change of Mind1967-12-1550m

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

  • S01E13Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling1967-12-2250m

    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.

  • S01E14Living in Harmony1967-12-2950m

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

  • S01E15The Girl Who Was Death1968-01-1950m

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

  • S01E16Once Upon a Time1968-01-2650m

    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.

  • S01E17Fall Out1968-02-0251m

    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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