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The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. [2] McGoohan portrays Number Six , an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position. [ 3 ]
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan , it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory , and psychological drama.
The Prisoner is an allegorical British science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. A single season of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968. The first episode in the UK aired in September 1967, although the global premiere was in Canada several weeks earlier. The series was released in the US in June 1968.
Rover is a plot device from the 1967 British television programme The Prisoner, and was a crucial tool used to keep 'prisoners' from escaping the Village. It was depicted as a floating white balloon that could coerce, and, if necessary, incapacitate or kill recalcitrant inhabitants of the Village. It also had the ability to subdivide.
"Hammer into Anvil" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series The Prisoner. Written by Roger Woddis and directed by Pat Jackson , it was the twelfth episode produced. It was the tenth episode to be broadcast in the UK on ITV ( ATV Midlands and Grampian ) on Friday 1 December 1967 and first aired in the United States on ...
The episode was first shown at 7:30pm on Friday 10 November 1967 on ATV Midlands and Grampian Television, on Sunday 12 November on ATV London, Southern Television, Westward Television and Tyne-Tees; on Thursday 16 November on Scottish Television, on Friday 17 November on Anglia Television, on Thursday 30 November on Border Television and on ...
In the TV series The Invisible Man (2000), the episode "A Sense of Community" featured a village called "The Community" where troublesome spies were forced to 'retire' to. The Village is recreated in the late-1970s Edu-Ware computer game, The Prisoner and its sequel, Prisoner 2. In both games, however, the location is renamed "The Island".
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