The Best Episodes of The Prisoner

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#1 - Many Happy Returns
S1:E711/10/1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Anthony Skene
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Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Anthony Skene
8.7/10(1016 votes)
#2 - Hammer into Anvil
S1:E1012/1/1967
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Roger Woddis
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Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Roger Woddis
8.6/10(1241 votes)
#3 - The Chimes of Big Ben
S1:E210/6/1967
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Vincent Tilsley
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Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Vincent Tilsley
8.5/10(1064 votes)
#4 - The Schizoid Man
S1:E510/27/1967
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.
Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Terence Feely
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Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Terence Feely
8.4/10(1422 votes)
#5 - Arrival
S1:E19/29/1967
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Director:Don Chaffey
Writers:David Tomblin, George Markstein
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Director:Don Chaffey
Writers:David Tomblin, George Markstein
8.2/10(1108 votes)
#6 - A., B. and C.
S1:E310/13/1967
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.
Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Anthony Skene
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Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Anthony Skene

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8.2/10(950 votes)
#7 - Checkmate
S1:E911/24/1967
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.
Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Gerald Kelsey
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Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Gerald Kelsey
7.8/10(873 votes)
#8 - A Change of Mind
S1:E1212/15/1967
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Roger Parkes
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Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Roger Parkes
7.7/10(917 votes)
#9 - Once Upon a Time
S1:E161/26/1968
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.
Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
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Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
7.7/10(1078 votes)
#10 - Free for All
S1:E410/20/1967
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
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Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
7.6/10(888 votes)
#11 - It's Your Funeral
S1:E1112/8/1967
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.
Director:Robert Asher
Writer:Michael Cramoy
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Director:Robert Asher
Writer:Michael Cramoy
7.6/10(1028 votes)
#12 - Fall Out
S1:E172/2/1968
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.
Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
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Director:Patrick McGoohan
Writer:Patrick McGoohan
7.5/10(938 votes)
#13 - Dance of the Dead
S1:E811/17/1967
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.
Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Anthony Skene
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Director:Don Chaffey
Writer:Anthony Skene
7.5/10(969 votes)
#14 - The General
S1:E611/3/1967
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.
Director:Peter Graham Scott
Writer:Lewis Greifer
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Director:Peter Graham Scott
Writer:Lewis Greifer
7.3/10(903 votes)
#15 - Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
S1:E1312/22/1967
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.
Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Vincent Tilsley
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Director:Pat Jackson
Writer:Vincent Tilsley
7.2/10(937 votes)
#16 - The Girl Who Was Death
S1:E151/19/1968
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
Director:David Tomblin
Writer:Terence Feely
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Director:David Tomblin
Writer:Terence Feely
7.0/10(931 votes)
#17 - Living in Harmony
S1:E1412/29/1967
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Director:David Tomblin
Writers:David Tomblin, Ian Rakoff
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Director:David Tomblin
Writers:David Tomblin, Ian Rakoff