The Prisoner (1967 - 1968)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 October 1967 - 4 February 1968
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 17
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

An unnamed secret agent tries to resign from the British secret service but is abducted and taken to The Village, a sinister community of similar would-be resigners and defectors. The agent, dubbed Number 6 by the shady authorities that run the community, determines to defy his captors, refuses to conform and fights a running battle with a succession of Number 2s who are sent to crack him and find out why he wanted to resign.

EPISODES

Arrival (1 October 1967)
The Chimes of Big Ben (8 October 1967)
A, B and C (15 October 1967)
Free for All (22 October 1967)
The Schizoid Man (29 October 1967)
The General (5 November 1967)
Many Happy Returns (12 November 1967)
Dance of the Dead (26 November 1967)
Checkmate (3 December 1967)
Hammer into Anvil (10 December 1967)
It's Your Funeral (17 December 1967)
A Change of Mind (31 December 1967)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (7 January 1968)
Living in Harmony (14 January 1968)
The Girl Who Was Death (21 January 1968)
Once Upon a Time (28 January 1968)
Fall Out (4 February 1968)

UK
Television Distributor: ITV; Channel 4
Video Distributor: Channel Five
DVD Distributor: Carlton

USA
Laserdisc Distributor: Image

No Man Is Just A Number

AWARDS

1969
Hugo Awards, USA
Best Dramatic Presentation - nominated for the episode Fall Out

SEE ALSO
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
The Laughing Prisoner (1987)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
A-Z of ATV (1994)
The 100 Greatest TV Characters (2001)
The 100 Greatest TV Moments (1999)
Forty Years of Science-Fiction Television (1990)
The Matrix (1999)
The Pursuader: The TV Times of Lew Grade (1994)

BOOKS

The Official Prisoner Companion - by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali (New York: Warner Books (1988))
article

The Prisoner: A Televisionary Masterpiece - by Alain Carraze and Helene Oswald (New York: Barnes and Noble Books (1995))
article

MAGAZINES

Entertainment Weekly no.487 (28 May 1999) pg.154 (USA)
article (Conspiring Minds by Dan Snierson)

prisoners, secret agents, spies, helicopters, allegories, prisons, beaches, gadgets, surrealism, drugs, gadgets, mind control, paranoia

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008