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Even by the standards of this series this episode is truly weird. Never before had a series like this taken its narrative and reset it in a totally different setting. Inspired possibly other shows decades later to try the same thing, namely Star Trek TNG and their holodeck episodes. This is set...

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I agree that series 1 is better, but I think another 13 episodes on the farm might have lost a freshness. This series gave us some good laughs, more varied stories and coming up are appearances by Ken Cope, Graham Crowden, Tony Selby. Also I noticed that Carpenter slightly downplayed the...

This is a fun story, not because it's funny but because it's great watching the sadistic Number 2 played brilliantly by Patrick Cargill , slowly going from strong man to nervous wreck. This Number 2 callously causes a woman to commit suicide by his over enthusiastic interrogation. The Prisoner...

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The Prisoner on the Seltzman machine.

Nigel Stock as The Prisoner with Seltzman.

This is a difficult episode to review really, I can't really make my mind up about it. The awfulness of some of it is beyond doubt. Yes, it's the episode without McGoohan! He was away filming Ice Station Zebra and only recorded one proper scene, shown in the last thirty seconds. Other than that...

This episode was written by McGoohan, and is suitably odd. The Prisoner is invited to participate in an election campaign. He is offered the chance to be the New Number 2 if he can beat the current incumbent. No. 6 thinks this is unlikely but he gives it a go anyway. The whole election is...

In this episode " speed learn" is the new craze. Villagers are promised that they can obtain university level degrees in three minutes of study. Unlikely, The prisoner thinks so, that is until he sits down in front of his tv and watches a lecture on the Napoleonic wars given by the 60ish looking...

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Next episode Checkmate https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-prisoner-checkmate-episode-02.4590/ Intelligence Agent, unnamed but maybe John Drake from McGoohan's previous show Danger Man, resigns from his job in central London. Drives back to his house and is kidnapped. He awakes in The Village...

In a brilliant finale The Prisoner dreams that he enters the laboratory to see 2 and 14, who are watching in er...the laboratory. Watching dream versions of themselves.