Number Six vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number Two after he drives a fellow Village resident to her death.
A new Number Eight named Nadia arrives in the Village, and together she and Number Six plot their escape.
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Title: The Prisoner (1967–1968)
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| Patrick McGoohan | ... | Number Six / ... 17 episodes, 1967-1968 | |
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Angelo Muscat | ... | The Butler 14 episodes, 1967-1968 |
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Peter Swanwick | ... | Supervisor / ... 8 episodes, 1967-1968 |
"The Prisoner" is a unique piece of television. It addresses issues such as personal identity and freedom, democracy, education, scientific progress, art and technology, while still remaining an entertaining drama series. Over seventeen episodes we witness a war of attrition between the faceless forces behind 'The Village' (a Kafkaesque community somewhere between Butlins and Alcatraz) and its most strong willed inmate, No. 6. who struggles ceaselessly to assert his individuality while plotting to escape from his captors. Written by Stuart Berwick <berws@essex.ac.uk>
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When I saw the first episode of this series, my jaw dropped in amazement. Here was a TV series that was entertaining and actually made you think. Nothing was ever what it appeared, no one had a real name, you never knew who was the good guy or the bad guy (or if they were one in the same!). The "final" episode was what could only be described as PSYCHEDELIC.
This TV series was, and still is, way ahead of its time.
As a side note, there is a "lost" first episode that is wildly different than the first one generally aired that explains some of the symbolism used in the series.
I hope the movie remake is made and distributed.