The Prisoner (1967)
Miniseries
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After he has resigned, a British secret agent is abducted by a mysterious organisation and relocated to a town known simply as The Village. The aim is to get him to provide secret information but he refuses. What follows is a battle of wits and wills as the agent seeks to escape and his captors try all sorts of means to obtain the information they want.
17 Episodes
- Arrival
E1ArrivalAfter resigning from his organization, a secret agent is abducted and finds himself in a sunny, Continental-style village which has no name and where the taxi and phone services do not extend beyond its boundaries. After meeting an enigmatic woman, he ultimately gets to see Number Two, the apparent village head, who tells him that he is there for the information he can give. Then Number Two gives way to a new Number Two. - The Chimes of Big Ben
E2The Chimes of Big BenA new prisoner, Nadia, or Number Eight, knows where the Village is, which means she and Number Six can escape. Using a boat that was disguised as a piece of abstract art, they make their way to the nearest shore and from there back to London, hidden in packing crates. But Number Six learns that nothing in this adventure was what it seemed. - Many Happy Returns
E7Many Happy ReturnsNumber Six wakes up to find the village deserted and seizes his opportunity to make a raft and escape. He eventually gets back to London and reports to his superiors. However, it's not long before he is rather cruelly returned to the village where Mrs. Butterworth, a middle-aged lady whom he met in London, is wearing a Number 2 badge and preparing to serve him a birthday cake bearing six candles. - Hammer into Anvil
E10Hammer into AnvilNumber Six is incensed when he witnesses the suicide of Number Seventy-Three who has been brutally interrogated by Number two and he informs Number Two that he will avenge her death. He begins a war of nerves,leading Number Two to believe that he is Agent D6,employed by a superior called XO4, and making him fear that he is in danger. Ultimately the prisoner is triumphant as yet another Number Two resigns. - It's Your Funeral
E11It's Your FuneralYet another Number Two is retiring to make way for a successor, who will receive the hand-over at a ceremony. Number Six hears that a bomb made by the elderly Watchmaker is to be detonated at the ceremony, killing the retiring Number Two and, with the Watchmaker's daughter, goes to warn him. The assassination would be calamitous for the Village. Number Six must stop this plan. - Once Upon a Time
E16Once Upon a TimeNumber Two conducts tests on Number Six to force him to reveal why he resigned but Number Six's iron will resists and he uses psychology to turn the tables so that his interrogator ends up grovelling to him. Still refusing to answer Number Six watches as Number Two is locked in a cage after which he requests that he sees Number One. - Fall Out
E17Fall OutIn the final episode of the series, Number 6 finds himself before a magistrate. He is given a place of honor however while the magistrate rules on the cases of several others. In the end, Number 6, Number 2, the butler and Number 48 all manage to escape and return to London while pandemonium races through the Village. .
