Patrick McGoohan
Number Six
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- 1. The Arrival Sep 29, 1967
- A man's resignation from a highly confidential job results in his abduction.
- 2. The Chimes of Big Ben Oct 6, 1967
- A rebellious new arrival is tortured until No. 6 participates in a village arts and crafts show.
- 3. A, B & C Oct 13, 1967
- His captors hope a drug that controls dreams will reveal whether No. 6 sold out.
The Prisoner is an allegorical British science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. A single season of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968. The first episode in the UK aired in September 1967, although the global premiere was in Canada several weeks earlier. The series was released in the US in June 1968.
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- List of Prisoner episodes
During the course of the series, 692 episodes of Prisoner...
- The Prisoner
The Prisoner consists of 17 episodes, which were first...
- Arrival
During the course of the series, 692 episodes of Prisoner aired over eight seasons, between 27 February 1979 and 11 December 1986. The airdates listed below are the correct run of episodes per season as shown on ATV0/10 Australia in Melbourne, the series' regional network.
No. OverallEpisodeDirected ByOriginal Air Date1Episode 1 Episode 2Graeme Arthur27 February 1979 ( 1979-02-27)2Episode 1 Episode 2Graeme Arthur27 February 1979 ( 1979-02-27)3Episode 3Rod Hardy28 February 1979 ( 1979-02-28)4Episode 4Graeme Arthur6 March 1979 ( 1979-03-06)After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
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The series follows Number Six (Patrick McGoohan), an unnamed British intelligence agent who, after abruptly and angrily resigning from his highly sensitive government job, prepares to go on a trip. While packing his luggage, he is rendered unconscious by knockout gas piped into his home in Westminster. Upon waking, he finds himself in a re-creation...
Main cast
1. Patrick McGoohan as Number Six
Recurring cast
1. Angelo Muscatas The Butler 2. Peter Swanwickas Supervisor 3. Denis Shawas The Shop Keeper 4. Fenella Fieldingas The Announcer/Telephone Operator (voice only)
Number Two
The episodes featured guest stars in the role of Number Two.
The Prisonerconsists of 17 episodes, which were first broadcast from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968 in the United Kingdom. While the show was presented as a serialised work, with a clear beginning and end, the ordering of the intermediate episodes is unclear, as the production and original broadcast order were different. Several attempts have...
Development
The Prisoner was created while Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein were working on Danger Man, an espionage show produced by Incorporated Television Company.The exact details of who created which aspects of the show are disputed, as there is no "created by" credit. Majority opinion credits McGoohan as the sole creator of the series, but a disputed co-creator status was later ascribed to Markstein after a series of fan interviews were published in the 1980s. Some sources indicate that McGooh...
Filming
Filming began with the shooting of the series' opening sequence in London on 28 August 1966, with location work beginning on 5 September 1966, primarily in Portmeirion, North Wales. This location partially inspired the show. At the request of Portmeirion's architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the main location for the series was not disclosed until the opening credits of the final episode, where it was described as "The Hotel Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales". Many local residents were...
Crew
1. George Markstein– Script editor 2. Don Chaffey– Director 3. David Tomblin– Director 4. Peter Graham Scott– Director 5. Brendan J. Stafford – Cinematographer 6. Bernard Williams– Production manager 7. Eric Mival– Music editor 8. Albert Elms– Musical director and composer 9. Frank Maher– Fight/stunt coordinator 10. Rose Tobias Shaw– Casting director
The finale of The Prisoner left numerous open-ended questions, generating controversy and letters of outrage.Following the final episode, McGoohan "claimed he had to go into hiding for a while".
Video tapes
Numerous editions of The Prisoner were released in the UK by companies such as Carlton, the copyright holder of the TV series. The first VHS and Betamax releases were through Precision Video in 1982 from 16mm original prints. They released four tapes, each with two episodes edited together: "The Arrival"/"The Schizoid Man", "Many Happy Returns"/"A. B. and C.", "Checkmate"/"Free For All", and "The General"/"The Chimes of Big Ben", thus omitting the final storyline. In 1986 Channel 5 Video (a n...
DVD
In 2000, the first DVD release in the UK was issued by Carlton International Entertainment, with A&E Home Video releasing the same DVDs in North America/Region 1 (in four-episode sets as well as a comprehensive 10-disc "mega-box" edition). A&E subsequently reissued the mega-box in a 40th anniversary edition in 2007. The A&E issue included an alternative version of "The Chimes of Big Ben" and the MPI-produced documentary (but not the redundant "best of" retrospective) among its limited special...
Blu-ray
The Prisoner: The Complete Series was released on Blu-ray Disc in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2009, following in North America on 27 October 2009. The episodes were restored by the A&E Network to create new high-definition masters. The box-set features all 17 remastered episodes plus extensive special features, including the feature-length documentary Don't Knock Yourself Out, a restored original edit of "Arrival" and extensive archive photos and production stills. The Prisoner: 50th A...
Books
In the late 1960s, the TV series quickly spawned three novels tied into the series. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, as the series gained cult status, a large amount of fan produced material began to appear, with the official appreciation society forming in 1977. In 1988, the first officially sanctioned guide – The Prisoner Companion – was released. It was not well received by fans or Patrick McGoohan. In 1989, Oswald and Carraze released The Prisoner in France with a translated version appea...
Games
In the early 1980s, Edu-Ware produced two computer games based upon the series for the Apple II computer. The first, titled simply The Prisoner, was released in 1980, followed by Prisoner 2in 1982. Steve Jackson Games' popular role-playing game system GURPS released a (now out of print) world book for The Prisoner.It included maps, episode synopses and details of the Village and its inhabitants.
Comics
In 1988, DC Comics released Shattered Visage, the first part of a four-part series of comics based on the characters in the TV series. In 2018 Titan Comics re-issued Shattered Visage as well as releasing The Prisoner: The Uncertainty Machine, another four-part series of comics about another spy returning to the Village.Although Patrick McGoohan's Number Six is depicted on covers of the 2018 series, the character plays no direct role in the story.
The final episode, "Fall Out", received a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentationin 1969.In 2002, the series won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.In 2004 and 2007, it was ranked No. 7 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.In 1997 and 2001, TV Guidelisted "Fall Out" as the 55th Greatest TV Episode of All Time.Britton, Wesley Alan (2004). "Chapter 6: The Cold War and Existential Fables: Danger Man, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner". Spy Television. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 93–110....Carrazé, Alain; Oswald, Hélène (1990). The Prisoner – A Televisionary Masterpiece. London: W. H. Allen Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85227-338-5.Fairclough, Robert, ed. (2005). The Prisoner: The Original Scripts. Vol. 1. Foreword by Lewis Greifer. Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-903111-76-5. OCLC 61145235.Fairclough, Robert, ed. (1 February 2006). The Prisoner: The Original Scripts. Vol. 2. Foreword by Roger Parkes. Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-903111-81-9. OCLC 61145235.The Prisonerin popular cultureIn My Mind, documentary about Patrick McGoohan and the making of The PrisonerTV seriesThe Prisoner is an allegorical British science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. A single season of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968. The first episode in the UK aired in September 1967, although the global premiere was in Canada several weeks earlier.
This is the sequence in which the episodes were originally scheduled to be broadcast in the UK, and—aside from the exclusion of " Living in Harmony " there—the sequence in which they were originally aired in the USA.
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" Fall Out " is the 17th and final episode of the allegorical British science fiction series The Prisoner. It was written and directed by Patrick McGoohan who also portrayed the incarcerated Number Six.
