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1 :01x01 - Arrival
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Virginia Maskell (The Woman), Guy Doleman (Number Two), Paul Eddington (Cobb), George Baker (The New Number Two), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Barbara Yu Ling (Taxi Driver), Stephanie Randall (Maid), Jack Allen (Doctor), Fabia Drake (Welfare Worker), Denis Shaw (Shopkeeper), Oliver MacGreevy (Gardener/Electrician), Frederick Piper (Ex-Admiral), Patsy Smart (Waitress), Peter Swanwick (Supervisor), David Garfield (Hospital Attendant), Peter Brace (1st Guardian), Keith Peacock (2nd Guardian), Christopher Benjamin (Labour Exchange Manager), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
After an unnamed British secret agent retires from his position, he returns to his home in London to pack for a holiday. However, he is soon gassed and loses consciousness. When he awakes hours later, he finds himself in a strange community by the sea known only as the Village. In this place, no names are used and all phones, maps, taxis and other services are "only local." Number Six, as he soon becomes known as, is shown around the Village by its chairman Number Two, who explains that the information in his head is priceless and that he and his superiors want to know why he resigned.
2 :01x02 - The Chimes of Big Ben
Writer: Vincent Tilsley
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Leo McKern (Number Two), Nadia Gray (Nadia/Number Eight), Finlay Currie (General), Richard Wattis (Fotheringay), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Kevin Stoney (Colonel J), Christopher Benjamin (Number Two's Assistant), David Arlen (Karel), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Hilda Barry (Number 38), Jack Le White (First Judge (as Jack Le-White)), John Maxim (Second Judge), Lucy Griffiths (Third Judge), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
Number Six discovers he has a new neighbour, Nadia, who soon becomes known as Number Eight. She is an Estonian secret agent who, like Number Six, is a prisoner in the Village because she resigned her job. Number Six befriends her and soon discovers that she knows the location of the Village: Lithuania. To increase both their chances, they decide to attempt to escape their prison together. To keep their plans a secret from Number Two, Number Six enters he Village arts and crafts exhibition competition. His entry entitled "Escape" is the inspiration for their plan to get back to London.
3 :01x03 - A. B. and C.
Writer: Anthony Skene
Director: Pat Jackson
Guest star: Katherine Kath (Engadine), Sheila Allen (Number Fourteen), Colin Gordon (Number Two), Peter Bowles ("A"), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Georgina Cookson (Blonde Lady), Annette Carell ("B"), Lucille Soong (Flower Girl), Bettine LeBeau (Maid at Party (as Bettine Le Beau)), Terry Yorke (Thug), Peter Brayham (Thug), Bill Cummings (Henchman), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
Not even Number 6's dreams are safe when Number 2 uses a drug to enter the Prisoner's mind and try to determine which of three individuals, designated A, B, and C, that Number 6 planned to sell secrets to.
4 :01x04 - Free for All
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Patrick McGoohan, Don Chaffey
Guest star: Eric Portman (Number Two), Rachel Herbert (Number Fifty-Eight), George Benson (Labour Exchange Manager), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Harold Berens (Reporter), John Cazabon (Man in Cave), Dene Cooper (Photographer), Kenneth Benda (Supervisor), Holly Doone (Waitress), Peter Brace (1st Mechanic), Alf Joint (2nd Mechanic), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
It's Election Time in the Village, and Number 6 is encouraged to run for the office. Number 6 is skeptical that anyone can honestly rise to power, but soon finds himself swept into the election campaign.
5 :01x05 - The Schizoid Man
Writer: Terence Feely
Director: Pat Jackson
Guest star: Jane Merrow (Alison), Anton Rodgers (Number Two), Patrick McGoohan (Number Twelve/Charles Curtis), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Earl Cameron (Supervisor), Gay Cameron (Number Thirty-Six), David Nettheim (Doctor), Pat Keen (Nurse), Gerry Crampton (1st Guardian), Dinny Powell (2nd Guardian), Frank Maher (Patrick McGoohan Body Double)
Number 2 comes up with a scheme to break Number 6, by programming him with different likes and dislikes then convincing him that he is Number 12, brought to the Village to break the "real" Number 6.
6 :01x06 - The General
Writer: Lewis Greifer
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Guest star: Colin Gordon (Number Two), Peter Howell (Professor), John Castle (Number Twelve), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Betty McDowall (Professor's Wife), Al Mancini (Announcer), Conrad Phillips (Doctor), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Michael Miller (Man in Buggy), Keith Pyott (Waiter), Ian Fleming (Men at Cafe & First Top Hat), Norman Mitchell (Mechanic), Peter Bourne (Projection Operator), George Leech (First Corridor Guard), Jackie Cooper (Second Corridor Guard)
The Village superiors are developing an electronic speedlearning process that allows them to place whatever information they wish in the human brain. The unwilling Professor developing the process is working with the mysterious "General," and Number 6 must thwart the scheme before the process is perfected.
7 :01x07 - Many Happy Returns
Writer: Patrick McGoohan, Anthony Skene
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Guest star: Donald Sinden (The Colonel), Patrick Cargill (Thorpe), Georgina Cookson (Mrs. Butterworth), Brian Worth (Group Captain), Richard Caldicot (Commander), Dennis Chinnery (Gunther), Jon Laurimore (Ernst), Nike Arrighi (Gypsy Girl), Grace Arnold (Maid), Larry Taylor (Gypsy Man), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), George Markstein (The man behind the desk)
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village abandoned. He makes a boat and escapes to freedom, only to fall victim to gunrunners. Upon reaching London, he must convince his superiors that the Village exists and that he can lead them back to destroy it once and for all.
8 :01x08 - Dance of the Dead
Writer: Anthony Skene
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Mary Morris (Number Two), Duncan MacRae (Doctor), Norma West (Girl Bo-Peep), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Aubrey Morris (Town Crier), Bee Duffell (Psychiatrist), Camilla Hasse (Day Supervisor), Alan White (Dutton), Michael Nightingale (Night Supervisor), Patsy Smart (Night Maid), Denise Buckley (Maid), George Merritt (Postman), John Frawley (Flowerman), Lucy Griffiths (Lady in Corridor), William Lyon Brown (2nd Doctor)
Number 6's discovery of a dead man on the beach sets off a bizarre series of events which culminate in a Village carnival where everyone is masked... and no one can be trusted.
9 :01x09 - Checkmate
Writer: Gerald Kelsey
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Ronald Radd (Rook), Patricia Jessel (1st Psychiatrist), Peter Wyngarde (Number Two), Rosalie Crutchley (Queen), George Coulouris (Man with the Stick), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Bee Duffell (2nd Psychiatrist), Basil Dignam (Supervisor), Danvers Walker (Painter), Denis Shaw (Shopkeeper), Victor Platt (Assistant Supervisor), Shivaun O'Casey (Nurse), Geoffrey Reed (Skipper), Terence Donovan (Sailor), Joe Dunne (1st Tower Guard), Romo Gorrara (2nd Tower Guard)
Number Six becomes involved in a living game of chess and discovers that the Queen has been programmed to fall in love with him and follow him while carrying a tracking device. The Prisoner allies with the Rook to use the Queen's tracking device to plan an escape.
10 :01x10 - Hammer into Anvil
Writer: Roger Woddis
Director: Pat Jackson
Guest star: Patrick Cargill (Number Two), Victor Maddern (Band Master), Basil Hoskins (Number Fourteen), Norman Scace (Psychiatric Director), Derek Aylward (New Supervisor), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Hilary Dwyer (Number Seventy-Three), Arthur Gross (Control Room Operator), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Victor Woolf (Shop Assistant), Michael Segal (Laboratory Technician), Margo Andrew (Shop Kiosk Girl), Susan Sheers (Female Code Expert), Jackie Cooper (First Guardian), Fred Haggerty (Second Guardian), Eddie Powell (Third Guardian), George Leech (Fourth Guardian (as George Leach))
When a young woman, Number Seventy-Three, takes her own life due to Number Two's efforts to break her, Number Six swears his revenge. He sets out on a campaign of misinformation in the hopes of pushing the already unstable Number Two over the edge. He plans to make the Village administrator think that he is an agent called D6 and that he is in the Village to spy on him.
11 :01x11 - It's Your Funeral
Writer: Michael Cramoy
Director: Robert Asher
Guest star: Derren Nesbitt (New Number Two), Annette Andre (Watchmaker's Daughter), Mark Eden (Number One Hundred), Andre Van Gyseghem (Retiring Number Two), Martin Miller (The Watchmaker), Wanda Ventham (Computer Attendant), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Mark Burns (Number Two's Assistant), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Charles Lloyd Pack (Artist), Grace Arnold (Number Thirty Six), Arthur White (Stall-Holder), Michael Bilton (M.C. Councillor), Gerry Crampton (Kosho Opponent), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
Number Six uncovers a plot to assassinate Number Two. In the interest of avoiding reprisals against the community, he warns the Village administrator about it. However, Number Six is unaware that he being used as a pawn. The plot thickens further when the incumbent Number Two is replaced by a much older man due to retire within days.
12 :01x12 - A Change of Mind
Writer: Roger Parkes
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Guest star: Angela Browne (Number Eighty-Six), John Sharp (Number Two (as John Sharpe)), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), George Pravda (Doctor), Kathleen Breck (Number Forty-Two), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Thomas Heathcote (Lobo Man), Bartlett Mullins (Committee Chairman), Michael Miller (Number Ninety-Three), Joseph Cuby (1st Member of Social Group), Michael Chow (2nd Member of Social Group), John Hamblin (1st Woodland Man), Michael Billington (2nd Woodland Man), June Ellis (Number Forty-Eight), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
Number Six is stripped of his protective status when the Village committee declares him "unmutual." When he refuses to cooperate, he undergoes mental treatment to fit in socially... but he soon realizes the entire thing is a ploy to break him.
13 :01x13 - Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
Writer: Vincent Tilsley
Director: Pat Jackson
Guest star: Zena Walker (Janet), Clifford Evans (Number Two), Nigel Stock (The Colonel), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Hugo Schuster (Seltzman), John Wentworth (Sir Charles), James Bree (Villiers), Lloyd Lamble (Stapleton), Patrick Jordan (Danvers), Lockwood West (Camera Shop Manager), Fredric Abbott (Potter), Gertan Klauber (Café Waiter), Henry Longhurst (Old Guest (credited, no appearance)), Danvers Walker (First New Man (credited, no appearance)), John Nolan (Young Guest), William Lyon Brown (Undertaker)
Number Six finally escapes the Village... in another man's body. The Village authorities need him to track down a rogue scientist. Now Number Six must convince those who know him who he really is and find the scientist... who holds the key to restoring him to his true body.
14 :01x14 - Living in Harmony
Director: David Tomblin
Guest star: Alexis Kanner (The Kid/Number Eight), David Bauer (The Judge/Number Two), Valerie French (Kathy/Number Twenty-Two), Gordon Tanner (Town Elder), Gordon Sterne (Bystander), Michael Balfour (Will), Larry Taylor (Mexican Sam), Monti De Lyle (Town Dignitary), Douglas Jones (Horse Dealer), Bill Nick (First Gunman), Leslie Crawford (Second Gunman), Frank Maher (Third Gunman), Max Faulkner (First Horseman), Bill Cummings (Second Horseman), Eddie Eddon (Third Horseman)
Number 6 finds himself in a town from the American Old West. Unable to leave town, he has to take on the position of sheriff to protect a young woman, but refuses to take up a gun or explain his reasons why not.
15 :01x15 - The Girl Who Was Death
Director: David Tomblin
Guest star: Kenneth Griffith (Schnipps), Justine Lord (Sonia), Christopher Benjamin (Potter), Michael Brennan (Killer Karminski), Harold Berens (Boxing M.C.), Sheena Marshe (Barmaid), Max Faulkner (Scots Napoleon), John Rees (Welsh Napoleon), Joe Gladwin (Yorkshire Napoleon), John Drake (Bowler), Gaynor Steward (Little Girl), Graham Stewart (First Little Boy), Stephen Howe (Second Little Boy), Alexis Kanner (Photographer / Mystery booth)
In what may be a flashback, or an imaginary story, or a new ploy by the Village superiors, Number 6 is working as a secret agent to thwart Professor Schnipps and his lethal daughter Sonia.
16 :01x16 - Once Upon A Time
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Guest star: Leo McKern (Number Two), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), John Cazabon (Umbrella Man), John Maxim (Number Eighty Six), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer)
It's a battle of wills when Number Two decides the only way to break Number Six is to enter into "Degree Absolute" with him. If Number Six triumphs, he will meet Number One. If he fails, he will die.
17 :01x17 - Fall Out
Writer: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Patrick McGoohan
Guest star: Leo McKern (Number Two), Alexis Kanner (Number Forty-Eight), Kenneth Griffith (The President), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Michael Miller (The Delegate), Patrick McGoohan (Number One)
Having triumphed against the Village and those set to defeat him, Number Six is brought into the presence of the Assembly and its President. Before meeting Number One, the Prisoner must first watch as rebels Number Two and Number Forty Eight are put on trial for their acts of rebellion, then engineer one final escape.