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    TV Series

    The Prisoner

    "No man is just a number."

    IMDb8.5/10
    1967 - 1968
    1h 0m/ep
    Ended
    Seasons: 1
    Episodes: 17

    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.

    Created by: Patrick McGoohan
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    Seasons & Episodes

    Arrival

    1. Arrival

    7.7

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

    9/29/196750 min
    The Chimes of Big Ben

    2. The Chimes of Big Ben

    8.3

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

    10/6/196750 min
    A., B. and C.

    3. A., B. and C.

    7.5

    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.

    10/13/196750 min
    Free for All

    4. Free for All

    7.8

    Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

    10/20/196750 min
    The Schizoid Man

    5. The Schizoid Man

    8.3

    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.

    10/27/196750 min
    The General

    6. The General

    7.6

    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.

    11/3/196750 min
    Many Happy Returns

    7. Many Happy Returns

    6.8

    Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

    11/10/196750 min
    Dance of the Dead

    8. Dance of the Dead

    7.4

    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.

    11/17/196750 min
    Checkmate

    9. Checkmate

    7.6

    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.

    11/24/196750 min
    Hammer into Anvil

    10. Hammer into Anvil

    8.5

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

    12/1/196750 min
    It's Your Funeral

    11. It's Your Funeral

    7.3

    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.

    12/8/196750 min
    A Change of Mind

    12. A Change of Mind

    8

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

    12/15/196750 min
    Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

    13. Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

    6.2

    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.

    12/22/196750 min
    Living in Harmony

    14. Living in Harmony

    6.2

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

    12/29/196750 min
    The Girl Who Was Death

    15. The Girl Who Was Death

    6.8

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

    1/19/196850 min
    Once Upon a Time

    16. Once Upon a Time

    8

    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.

    1/26/196850 min
    Fall Out

    17. Fall Out

    7.3

    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.

    2/2/196851 min

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