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The Prisoner

Season 1
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
196817 episodes16+
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  1. S1 E1 - Arrival

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    June 1, 1967
    51min
    TV-PG
    After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Chimes of Big Ben

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    October 8, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together she and Number 6 plot their escape.
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  3. S1 E3 - A. B. and C.

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    October 15, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Free for All

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    October 22, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Schizoid Man

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    October 29, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  6. S1 E6 - The General

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    November 5, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  7. S1 E7 - Many Happy Returns

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    November 12, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
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  8. S1 E8 - Dance of the Dead

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    November 26, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  9. S1 E9 - Do Not Forsake Me

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    January 7, 1968
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  10. S1 E10 - It's Your Funeral

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    December 17, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  11. S1 E11 - Checkmate

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    December 3, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  12. S1 E12 - Living in Harmony

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    January 14, 1968
    51min
    TV-PG
    Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
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  13. S1 E13 - A Change of Mind

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    December 31, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    After a brawl, Number Six is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social treatment."
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  14. S1 E14 - Hammer into Anvil

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    December 10, 1967
    50min
    TV-PG
    Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
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  15. S1 E15 - The Girl Who Was Death

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    January 21, 1968
    51min
    TV-PG
    Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
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  16. S1 E16 - Once Upon a Time

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    January 28, 1968
    51min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  17. S1 E17 - Fall Out

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    January 31, 1968
    51min
    16+
    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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Violencealcohol use

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Directors

Patrick McGoohan

Cast

Patrick McGoohanAngelo MuscatPeter SwanwickLeo McKernChristopher BenjaminMichael Miller

Studio

Shout! Factory
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