The Prisoner
No man is just a number.
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
Season 1 — 17 episodes
E1
Arrival
50m·7.7
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
E2
The Chimes of Big Ben
50m·8.2
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
E3
A., B. and C.
50m·7.7
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.
E4
Free for All
50m·7.8
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
E5
The Schizoid Man
50m·8.7
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.
E6
The General
50m·7.3
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.
E7
Many Happy Returns
50m·6.8
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
E8
Dance of the Dead
50m·7.5
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.
E9
Checkmate
50m·7.8
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.
E10
Hammer into Anvil
50m·8.5
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
E11
It's Your Funeral
50m·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.
E12
A Change of Mind
50m·8.0
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
E13
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
50m·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.
E14
Living in Harmony
50m·6.2
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
E15
The Girl Who Was Death
50m·6.8
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
E16
Once Upon a Time
50m·8.0
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.
E17
Fall Out
51m·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.
