The Prisoner — Season 1
No man is just a number.
About this season
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.
Episodes (17)
1. Arrival
7.7Aired 29 September 1967 • 50 min
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
2. The Chimes of Big Ben
8.2Aired 6 October 1967 • 50 min
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
3. A., B. and C.
7.7Aired 13 October 1967 • 50 min
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.
4. Free for All
7.8Aired 20 October 1967 • 50 min
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
5. The Schizoid Man
8.7Aired 27 October 1967 • 50 min
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.
6. The General
7.3Aired 3 November 1967 • 50 min
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.
7. Many Happy Returns
6.8Aired 10 November 1967 • 50 min
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
8. Dance of the Dead
7.5Aired 17 November 1967 • 50 min
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.
9. Checkmate
7.8Aired 24 November 1967 • 50 min
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.
10. Hammer into Anvil
8.5Aired 1 December 1967 • 50 min
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
11. It's Your Funeral
7.3Aired 8 December 1967 • 50 min
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. A Change of Mind
8.0Aired 15 December 1967 • 50 min
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
13. Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
6.2Aired 22 December 1967 • 50 min
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.
14. Living in Harmony
6.2Aired 29 December 1967 • 50 min
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
15. The Girl Who Was Death
6.8Aired 19 January 1968 • 50 min
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
16. Once Upon a Time
8.0Aired 26 January 1968 • 50 min
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.
17. Fall Out
7.3Aired 2 February 1968 • 51 min
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.