![]() Number Six, distrustful of everyone in the Village, refuses to co-operate or provide the answers they seek. This is assumed to be part of a larger plan to disorientate Number Six but sometimes the change of personnel seems to be the result of the failure of the previous incumbent, whose fate is unknown. The position of Number Two is assigned to a different person in each episode, with two making repeat appearances. All of these are employed not only to find out why Number Six resigned as an agent, but also to elicit other information he gained as a spy. Several techniques are used by Number Two to try to extract information from Number Six, including hallucinogenic drugs, identity theft, mind control, dream manipulation and forms of social indoctrination and physical coercion. Number Six is monitored heavily by the constantly-changing Number Two, the Village administrator, who acts as an agent for the unseen Number One. Number Six in the first episode "Arrival" I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own. The protagonist is assigned Number Six, but he repeatedly refuses the pretence of his new identity. Potential escapees, therefore, have no idea whom they can and cannot trust. They do not use names, but have been assigned numbers which, aside from designations such as Two, Three, and Six, give no clue as to any person's status within the Village, whether as prisoners or guards. The man encounters the Village's population, hundreds of people from all walks of life and cultures, all seeming to be peacefully and mostly enjoyably living out their lives. When he wakes, he finds himself in a re-creation of the interior of his home, located in a mysterious coastal " village" within which he is held captive, isolated from the mainland by mountains and sea.Īlthough internal physical movement of residents around the Village is unconstrained, the premises are secured by numerous high-tech monitoring systems and security forces, including a balloon-like automaton called Rover, that recaptures or kills those who attempt escape. While packing his luggage, he is rendered unconscious by knockout gas piped into his London home. The most he will later reveal about his resignation is that it was a "matter of conscience". The series follows an unnamed British man (McGoohan) who, after abruptly and angrily resigning from his high-ranking government job – apparently a secret service post – prepares to make a hurried departure from the country. In 2016, Big Finish Productions reinterpreted the series as an audio drama. Ī six-part TV miniseries remake aired on the US cable channel AMC in November 2009. Since its initial screening, the series has developed a cult following. Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mould of the previous series starring McGoohan, Danger Man, its combination of 1960s countercultural themes and surrealistic setting had a far-reaching influence on science fiction and fantasy TV programming, and on narrative popular culture in general. ![]() The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the US on 1 June 1968. Interior scenes were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, north of London. Ī single series of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968, with exterior location filming in Portmeirion, Wales. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. Episode plots have elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological drama, as well as spy fiction. The series was created by McGoohan with possible contributions from George Markstein. Patrick McGoohan played the lead role as Number Six. The Prisoner is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors designate him as Number Six and try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, EnglandĬarlton Communications plc/ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
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