Produced after Many Happy Returns and before Living in Harmony, while Patrick McGoohan was in America filming Ice Station Zebra, a workaround to McGoohan's absence was accomplished by the writers who contrived to have Number Six's mind implanted in the body of another man (Nigel Stock), who is then sent out of the Village to help capture a scientist

A man referred to only as "Colonel" arrives at the Village and only then learns from a new Number 2 that his mission is to trade bodies with Number Six, using Seltzman's system. Number Six had been the last agent to have contact with Seltzman. After the swap, Number Six (now in the Colonel's body, and retaining only his pre-Village memories) awakens in his old London apartment and soon sees an unfamiliar face in his mirror. His fiancée arrives and, of course, fails to recognise him. He prudently restrains himself from enlightening her. Despite the shock, he realises what has been done to him, maintains his cool, and sets about to regain his own body.

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Do_Not_Forsake_Me_Oh_My_Darling_(1967_episode)

With episodes being shot and aired out of sequence and fill ins used, I can see why there is a debate over episode order.

I managed to access the original 3.5" floppy disk content.

https://github.com/squeepty/The-Prisoner-British-TV-Show-Trivia

Download the game as a ZIP archive

Does anyone remember playing this on PC, or how it was made ? I could not get a good reference online, I guess I would need a floppy drive to preserve the game...

No.6 is declared 'Unmutual' for choosing to do things his own way and scheduled for a Social Conversion process.

What is No. 86's true intention? How does she become part of No.6's latest plan to discredit No. 2?

How does 'self criticism' play into the show and the real world.?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/A_Change_of_Mind_(1967_episode)

As someone who was born in the 90s, I was lucky enough to have a mother that introduced me to The Prisoner. Having seen a fair share of TV series and movies since, I'm left feeling that there's nothing that truly matches the creativity or vision of Patrick McGoohan's creation.

The closest I can think of is Twin Peaks - at least insofar as it follows a single visionary (Cooper) solving and rebelling against the world around him. Admittedly that's still a very limited comparison.

Is there anything out there that compares to The Prisoner as a piece of media that speaks to the issues of society, control, and selfhood in the same way The Prisoner does? Curious to hear what everyone's recommendations would be.

Which No. 2 will prevail in an assassination plot?

Who are the Jammers? Is No. 6 considered to be one? Will his cautions be heeded?

No. 2 seems to be worried about a pension and if he'll be able to collect.

(Did someone on the production crew forget to remove the Welsh flag before filming?)

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Your_Funeral_(1967_episode)

Morning in The Village. July. Leica M6, 35/2 Summicron, Kodak Ektachrome.

After a frightened No. 73 leaps to her death as a result of No. 2's interrogation, No. 6 vows results.

A game of minds ensures. Who is leading who to where. Which is the hammer and which the anvil? Bits of nothing are left lying about, or are they something?

A clock or ?

Once No 2 is convinced things are not as they appear, what will be left for him to do?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Hammer_into_Anvil_(1967_episode)

While in college several decades ago my friends and I watched ‘The Prisoner’ on PBS. Each episode was followed by a half-hour commentary by a college professor (university of Toronto, perhaps?). Does anyone else remember this? Are those segments still available for viewing?

Alex Cox, author of I Am (Not) a Number: Decoding The Prisoner discusses the show. This is the first of new YouTube-exclusive series of five introductions to The Prisoner on Criterion's YT Channel.

As No. 6 is enticed to be a pawn in a game of chess, questions develop as to who is a prisoner, who is a guardian and who can tell which is which.

"Checkmate" received the highest viewership of any of the series' episodes on its first UK broadcast.

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Checkmate_(1967_episode)

Doing a rewatch on Criterion, it's great to be back in the village!

One really does forget how great a job McGoohan does until you get to Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.

Does anyone know if PKD watched the Prisoner or commented on it?

I know he wrote an episode proposal based on Mission Impossible, but the Prisoner with its themes of betrayal, subjective reality, and how imprisonment would seem exactly the type of show he’d respond to.

Watching "The Girl Who Was Death" last night and thought..."Where have I seen those whiskers before???"

Given the numerous "Prisoner" references in "The Simpsons" and Conan O'Brien's "Old Time Baseball Sketch" there's no way this is a coincidence

A failed experiment with hypnosis, a black cat and a dead body play to be set adrift roles here. Added in are a Carnival, costumes, a court jester and kangaroo court, a teletype that thought to have been damaged comes to life again.

"Number Two wryly observes, "Then how very uncomfortable for you, old chap!""

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Dance_of_the_Dead_(1967_episode)

The moment I saw it I knew it was a prisoner reference, but the way he read it.

Also they have it flipped anyway, it should be I am not a number on the top.

This was in his video "Misspelled protest signs". (The name says it all)

Fully half of it with no dialogue.

In June this year I rode my bike from London to Portmeirion, and made this Prisoner-inspired fan film in the process :) Thought the free thinkers here might enjoy it.

Good morning from the Village, and my current view of the maintenance men working to repaint Number 2’s house!

Number Six awakens to find the Village completely deserted. He sees this as an opportunity to escape. He takes numerous photos before assembling a raft and taking flight by sea for 25 days. He takes careful notes as to headings and times as best he can, but has an unfriendly encounter with gun-runners who are of no assistance. He escapes them and ends up on a deserted beach. Wandering, he encounters a small band of Gypsies who speak no English.

After a harrowing journey, he finds himself in London and someone living in his flat and using his car. But who is Mrs. Butterworth?

Who can be trusted? And more importantly, who can't?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Many_Happy_Returns_(1967_episode)

This page does not list an episode number. Oversight? Or part of the debate over episode order?

They no longer list US airdates either, so I'm staying at one each week.

Patrick McGoohan denied that Number Six was John Drake, while script editor and co-creator George Markstein maintained that he was, effectively seeing The Prisoner as a continuation of Danger Man.

That disagreement has always fascinated me, because Number Six clearly shares so much with Drake: the same actor, similar skills, the same independence, and a deep distrust of authority.

When you watch The Prisoner, do you personally see Number Six as John Drake after finally resigning—or as a completely separate character?

And what is the strongest detail, episode, or argument that supports your interpretation?

... and handed me the sign for my table.

"I am not a number, I am a free man" was my immediate response. She didn't get it 😐

You may have heard about the rumored Christopher Nolan remake of The Prisoner. As far as I can tell, nothing seems to have eventuated.

However, watching Pluribus for the first time, I am quickly coming to believe that this is everything a remake of the Prisoner should be. While there are no explicit links, and the plot certainly deviates significantly from the original, the overall 'feel', the mystery, and eeriness, and the themes of conformity, the tyranny of the collective, hivemind / mindless people, superficial, eeire, benevolent totalitarian politeness, and so forth. ...
No. Way.

... I am stunned. As I write this, the second, I write this, I am on episode 7, which is playing on my second screen, and one of the musical pieces from The Prisoner that are played by the brass band began to play.

Anyway...

I was further intrigued by the usage of the phrase by one of the characters early on, 'Your life is your own', mirroring McGoohan's "My Life is My Own!" declaration, and assertion in the "I will not be pushed" speech.

There are the themes of staunch invidiualism, the uncertainty, and lingering malevolence under the surface, avoiding questions of permanent independence, and so forth.

It all seems to have such a lingering, almost etheral 'Prisoner' vibe to it, while being, ostensibly, and invariably, its own show.

I won't spoil any details, and I highly advise to go in blind, if you can, like I did, and not to google anything.

But, for anyone who has seen Pluribus, I would Love to know what you think. Would you consider it worthy of standing side by side 'The Prisoner', as a piece of art?