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Season: 1
Year: 1967  |  1968

Season 1

"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: -- After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

Season 1, Episode 0: Arrival

Original Air Date—5 September 1967
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Nadia, Number 8, arrives in The Village and together with Number 6 they plot their escape.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Chimes of Big Ben

Original Air Date—8 October 1967
Nadia, Number 8, arrives in The Village and together with Number 6 they plot their escape.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Number 2 believes that Number 6 resigned because he was going to sell out his superiors. Using his dreams, Number 2 tries to determine which of three possible candidates he was working with.

Season 1, Episode 2: A. B. and C.

Original Air Date—15 October 1967
Number 2 believes that Number 6 resigned because he was going to sell out his superiors. Using his dreams, Number 2 tries to determine which of three possible candidates he was working with.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.

Season 1, Episode 3: Free for All

Original Air Date—22 October 1967
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 4 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Schizoid Man

Original Air Date—29 October 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.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Number 2 tries using an instant learning process as a brain washing tool and is stopped by Number 6.

Season 1, Episode 5: The General

Original Air Date—5 November 1967
Number 2 tries using an instant learning process as a brain washing tool and is stopped by Number 6.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

Season 1, Episode 6: Many Happy Returns

Original Air Date—12 November 1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 7 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 7: Dance of the Dead

Original Air Date—26 November 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.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 8 -- After waking up from an artificial sleep, Number 6 discovers a game of "live chess" on the Village green in which the "chessmen" are Villagers and the players sit in elevated chairs and call out the moves with megaphones...

Season 1, Episode 8: Checkmate

Original Air Date—3 December 1967
After waking up from an artificial sleep, Number 6 discovers a game of "live chess" on the Village green in which the "chessmen" are Villagers and the players sit in elevated chairs and call out the moves with megaphones. Recruited by one player as the Queen's pawn, he only reluctantly obeys his "master's" orders. After the match, Number 6 enacts a new escape plan that requires the complicity of a specific type of individual. He chooses one of the rooks from the chess game, a man known for his rebellious nature.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Number 6 goes after Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.

Season 1, Episode 9: Hammer Into Anvil

Original Air Date—10 December 1967
Number 6 goes after Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Number Six hears of an assassination plot against Number Two. But Number Two is the one doing all the plotting.

Season 1, Episode 10: It's Your Funeral

Original Air Date—17 December 1967
Number Six hears of an assassination plot against Number Two. But Number Two is the one doing all the plotting.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 11 -- After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social treatment."

Season 1, Episode 11: A Change of Mind

Original Air Date—31 December 1967
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social treatment."
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 12 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 12: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

Original Air Date—7 January 1968
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.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.

Season 1, Episode 13: Living in Harmony

Original Air Date—14 January 1968
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Girl Who Was Death

Original Air Date—21 January 1968
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 15 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 15: Once Upon a Time

Original Air Date—28 January 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.
"The Prisoner" (1967): Season 1: Episode 16 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 16: Fall Out

Original Air Date—4 February 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.

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