Following is a list of the 17 episodes of The Prisoner, along with discussion of their content and context. They are listed in order of their original broadcast in Britain, but other orderings exist. The Prisoner was a 1967 UK science fiction television series, starring Patrick McGoohan. ...
To save the prisoner who is being set up to take the fall, Number Six must intervene in a Village power struggle and prevent the assassination of a Number Two.
In an Old West setting, a lawman who resigned is trapped in a town called Harmony where the Judge wants him to be the new sherriff — by hook or by crook.
Number Two subjects Number Six to a desperate, last-ditch effort to subdue him, Degree Absolute — an ordeal that will not end until it breaks one of them.
In the final episode, "Fall Out", McKern's character uses the Lord's Entrance in the Palace of Westminster, indicating that he is a member of Parliament, having either inherited a title through birth or received a title from the Crown.
An alternative interpretation is that the Palace of Westminster is a symbol of democracy, in contrast to the theme of totalitarianism and the suppression of the individual.
The episode "Living in Harmony" was not aired in the United States for the series' initial network run, for the ostensible reason that it used (unfeatured) psychedelic drug use as a feature of its plot.
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