The Prisoner (Complete Series) - 6-DVD Set

The Prisoner (Complete Series) - 6-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
850 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Special Edition

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Patrick McGoohan
Pat Jackson
Don Chaffey
David Tomblin

Written By:
Patrick McGoohan
George Markstein
David Tomblin
Anthony Skene
Terence Feely
Vincent Tilsley

Actors:
Patrick McGoohan ..... Number Six / ... (17 episodes, 1967-1968)
Angelo Muscat ..... The Butler (14 episodes, 1967-1968)
Peter Swanwick ..... Supervisor (8 episodes, 1967-1968)
George Markstein ..... Man behind desk in title sequence (7 episodes, 1967-1968)

Synopsis:

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Arrival
The Village.
Season 1, Episode 1: The Chimes of Big Ben
Season 1, Episode 2: A. B. and C.
Season 1, Episode 3: Free for All
Season 1, Episode 4: The Schizoid Man
Season 1, Episode 5: The General
Season 1, Episode 6: Many Happy Returns
Season 1, Episode 7: Dance of the Dead
Season 1, Episode 8: Checkmate
Season 1, Episode 9: Hammer Into Anvil
Season 1, Episode 10: It's Your Funeral
Season 1, Episode 11: A Change of Mind
Season 1, Episode 12: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
Season 1, Episode 13: Living in Harmony
Season 1, Episode 14: The Girl Who Was Death
Season 1, Episode 15: Once Upon a Time
Season 1, Episode 16: Fall Out

A high-ranking but un-named Agent in the British Government resigns from his job/post and leaves for a holiday. While packing he is gassed and is taken to a beautiful but deadly prison known only as 'The Village' where people are taken, given a Number to be called by and kept there for the rest of their lives if they don't tell No. 2 (the deputy head of 'The Village') the information they are captured for. Escape is nearly impossible as 'The Village' has amazing but deadly weapons to use if anybody tries to escape. The Agent is given the title of 'No. 6' but he adopts the name of 'The Prisoner'. The series tells of his attempts to resist the plots of each No. 2 (who is replaced with another if an attempt on No. 6 fails) to get his information and against any attempt to disrupt the nearly peaceful running of the 'The Village'. The Village is determined to crack The Prisoner by attempting to get the answer to why he resigned from his job/post. As time goes on, two questions plague The Prisoner's mind - How can he escape and who is the real leader of the Village - the mysterious No. 1?.
Season 1
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.
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.
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.
Season 1, Episode 3: Free for All
Original Air Date-22 October 1967
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
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.
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.
Season 1, Episode 6: Many Happy Returns
Original Air Date-12 November 1967
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

The Prisoner is a unique piece of television. It addresses issues such as personal identity and freedom, democracy, education, scientific progress, art and technology, while still remaining an entertaining drama series. Over seventeen episodes we witness a war of attrition between the faceless forces behind 'The Village' (a Kafkaesque community somewhere between Butlins and Alcatraz) and its most strong willed inmate, No. 6. who struggles ceaselessly to assert his individuality while plotting to escape from his captors.

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