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The Laughing Prisoner (1987)
Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 3 April 1987
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Tyne Tees Television
Executive Producer: Malcolm Gerrie
Producer: John Gwyn
SCRIPT
Script: Jools Holland, Stephen Fry
Additional Material: Hugh Laurie, Rowland Rivron
DIRECTION
Directors: Chris Gabrin (London), Geoff Wonfor (Portmeirion)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Graham Brown
LOCATIONS
Locations: The Hotel Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales,
UK; Portmeirion Village, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
CAST
Jools Holland (No.7)
Patrick McGoohan (Number Six (in archive footage from The
Prisoner (1967 - 1968))
Terence Alexander (Head of Channel 4)
Stephen Fry (No.2)
Stanley Unwin (No.3)
Hugh Laurie (assistant)
John Peel
Siouxsie and the Banshees (themselves)
XTC (themselves)
Magnum (themselves)
Chris Difford (himself)
Rowland Rivron (himself)
PLOT SUMMARY
A successful television presenter decides to give it all up and retire.
But he is kidnapped and finds himself in The Village where the mysterious
Number 2 interrogates him.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributors: Channel 4
TIMELINE
1987
April
3: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
LINKS
SEE ALSO
The Prisoner (1967
- 1968)
KEYWORDS
prisoners, spoofs, surrealism
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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