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17 episodes

The Prisoner - Series 1

First aired Sep 29, 1967Season 1

Browse all 17 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Arrival

7.5
Sep 29, 196750 min10 votes

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

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Episode 2

The Chimes of Big Ben

8.1
Oct 6, 196750 min7 votes

A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.

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Episode 3

A., B. and C.

7.0
Oct 13, 196750 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 4

Free for All

7.5
Oct 20, 196750 min9 votes

Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

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Episode 5

The Schizoid Man

7.8
Oct 27, 196750 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 6

The General

7.0
Nov 3, 196750 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 7

Many Happy Returns

6.8
Nov 10, 196750 min6 votes

Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

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Episode 8

Dance of the Dead

7.0
Nov 17, 196750 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 9

Checkmate

7.2
Nov 24, 196750 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 10

Hammer into Anvil

7.6
Dec 1, 196750 min5 votes

Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.

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Episode 11

It's Your Funeral

6.5
Dec 8, 196750 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 12

A Change of Mind

7.0
Dec 15, 196750 min4 votes

After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."

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Episode 13

Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

6.0
Dec 22, 196750 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 14

Living in Harmony

5.4
Dec 29, 196750 min5 votes

Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.

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Episode 15

The Girl Who Was Death

6.4
Jan 19, 196850 min5 votes

Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.

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Episode 16

Once Upon a Time

7.0
Jan 26, 196850 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 17

Fall Out

6.5
Feb 2, 196851 min4 votes

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.