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Season 1

8.4/101,422 votes
Arrival
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1967
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: David Tomblin, George Markstein
8.6/101,241 votes
The Chimes of Big Ben
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1967
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
8.2/101,108 votes
A., B. and C.
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1967
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
7.7/101,078 votes
Free for All
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1967
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
8.5/101,064 votes
The Schizoid Man
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1967
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
7.5/10969 votes
The General
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1967
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
8.7/101,070 votes
Many Happy Returns
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Writer: Anthony Skene
7.5/10938 votes
Dance of the Dead
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1967
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
8.2/10950 votes
Checkmate
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1967
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
8.7/101,016 votes
Hammer into Anvil
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1967
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
7.6/10888 votes
It's Your Funeral
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1967
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
7.8/10873 votes
A Change of Mind
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1967
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
7.3/10903 votes
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1967
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
7.0/10931 votes
Living in Harmony
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1967
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Director: David Tomblin
Writer: David Tomblin, Ian Rakoff
7.2/10937 votes
The Girl Who Was Death
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1968
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
7.7/10917 votes
Once Upon a Time
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1968
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
7.6/101,028 votes
Fall Out
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1968
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