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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.
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Cast & crew
Patrick McGoohan
Number Six
Peter Swanwick
The Supervisor
Fenella Fielding
Loudspeaker Announcer
Colin Gordon
Number Two
Leo McKern
Former Number Two
Derren Nesbitt
New Number Two
Eric Portman
Number Two
Ronald Radd
Rook
David Bauer
The Judge / Number Two
Paul Eddington
Cobb
John Sharp
Number Two
Mary Morris
Number Two
Patrick McGoohan
Creator
George Markstein
Creator
Episodes
1 season · 17 episodesSeries 117 ep. · 1967–1968
Episode 1: Arrival
Sep 29, 1967 · 50 min
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Episode 2: The Chimes of Big Ben
Oct 6, 1967 · 50 min
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
Episode 3: A., B. and C.
Oct 13, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 4: Free for All
Oct 20, 1967 · 50 min
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Episode 5: The Schizoid Man
Oct 27, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 6: The General
Nov 3, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 7: Many Happy Returns
Nov 10, 1967 · 50 min
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Episode 8: Dance of the Dead
Nov 17, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 9: Checkmate
Nov 24, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 10: Hammer into Anvil
Dec 1, 1967 · 50 min
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
Episode 11: It's Your Funeral
Dec 8, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 12: A Change of Mind
Dec 15, 1967 · 50 min
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
Episode 13: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
Dec 22, 1967 · 50 min
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.
Episode 14: Living in Harmony
Dec 29, 1967 · 50 min
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death
Jan 19, 1968 · 50 min
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
Episode 16: Once Upon a Time
Jan 26, 1968 · 50 min
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.
Episode 17: Fall Out
Feb 2, 1968 · 51 min
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.