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The Prisoner: Series 1

17 episodes Premiered Sep 29, 1967 Updated Jul 21, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (14): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Arrival

Sep 29, 1967 · 50 min

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

S1·E2 Core

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.

S1·E3 Core

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

S1·E4 Core

Free for All

Oct 20, 1967 · 50 min

Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

S1·E5 Core

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.

S1·E6 Core

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.

S1·E7 Core

Many Happy Returns

Nov 10, 1967 · 50 min

Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

S1·E8 Core

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.

S1·E9 Core

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.

S1·E10 Core

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.

S1·E11 Core

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.

S1·E12 Core

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."

S1·E13 Core

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 hel

S1·E14 Core

Living in Harmony

Dec 29, 1967 · 50 min

Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.

S1·E15 Core

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.

S1·E16 Mytharc

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.

S1·E17 Mytharc

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.

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