[*** SPOILER WARNING *** I have added plot summaries. None of them give away the endings, but if you don't want to know anything about the plots, read no further. -jjl] Date: 11 Feb 85 19:46:55 EST From: Kevin.Dowling@CMU-RI-ROVER Subject: Prisoner episode guide I thought I'd add this outline style episode guide. It does NOT list synopsis' of the episodes though! I remember seeing the series for the first time and am very glad no one told me what was going to happen... Starlog #11 does have an episode guide to the show and a skimpy article on the series. Many fanzines also had episode guides. The Ontario Educational 'Prisoner Primer' was one of the better ones. Travel & Leisure Magazine In 1980 May or June I believe had an article on Portmerion in Wales. Many public libraries should have this. The Prisoner Episode Guide 1967-68 An ITC production by Everyman Films Ltd. Executive Producer: Patrick McGoohan Script Editor: George Markstein Made on location in the grounds of the Hotel Portmerion, Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales by courtesy of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and at MGM Studios, Borehamwood, England 1966/67 Director of Photography: Brendan J. Stafford BSC Art Director: Jack Shampan Theme by Ron Grainer Casting Director: Rose Tobias Produced by David Tomblin 10/1/67 [#1] Arrival Director: Don Chaffey Writer: George Markstein/ David Tomblin Guy Doleman as No. 2 George Baker as the new No. 2 Angelo Muscat as The Butler. [#6 arrives at the Village, tries to escape several times. #2 is introduced, as is the first new #2. The main features of the Village are seen.] 10/8/67 [#2] The Chimes of Big Ben Director: Don Chaffey Writer: Vincent Tilsley Leo McKern as No. 2 Nadia Gray as Nadia Finlay Currie as The General [Nadia is the new #8, #6's next door neighbor. She supposedly has information about where the Village is located. #6 enters a wood sculpture in an art contest, and wins. He uses his prize credits to purchase a tapestry. He and Nadia use the sculpture as a boat and the tapestry as a sail to escape the Village and return to London. As usual, not everything is what it seems.] 10/15/67 [#3] A, B, and C Director: Pat Jackson Writer: Anthony Skene Colin Gordon as No. 2 Katherine Kath as Engadine Sheila Allen as No. 14 [#2 attempts to find out who #6 was going to sell out to by watching his thoughts as he and #14 shape #6's dreams and insert the three people A, B, and C (all of whom were known to have had contact with #6).] 10/22/67 [#4] Free For All Director: Patrick McGoohan Writer: Patrick McGoohan Eric Portman as No. 2 Rachel Herbert as No. 58 Angelo Muscat as The Butler [#6 runs for the office of #2.] 10/29/67 [#5] The Schizoid Man Director: Pat Jackson Writer: Terence Feely Anton Rogers as No. 2 Jane Merrow as Alison Earl Cameron as The Supervisor [#2 replaces #6 with a double and goes to elaborate extremes to convince #6 that he is #12.] 11/5/67 [#6] The General Director: Peter Graham Scott Writer: Lewis Greifer Colin Gordon as No. 2 John Castle as No. 12 Peter Howell as The Professor [A professor introduces the villagers to "speed learning", whereby a three year history course can be taught in three minutes. Ian Fleming (not the writer) plays a villager.] 11/12/67 [#7] Many Happy Returns Director: Joseph Serf Writer: Anthony Skene Donald Sinden as The Colonel Patrick Cargill as Thorpe Georgina Cookson as Mrs. Butterworth [Number 6 awakes to find the power out and the village deserted. He builds a raft and escapes back to London.] 11/19/67 [#8] Dance of the Dead Director: Don Chaffey Writer: Anthony Skene Mary Morris as No. 2 Duncan MacRae as The Doctor Norma West as Girl Bo-Peep [A strange one. Number 6 meets his observer, goes to the "carnival", finds a radio on a dead body, meets someone he knew from outside, etc.] 11/26/67 [#9] [videotape #11] Checkmate Director: Don Chaffey Writer: Gerald Kelsey Peter Wyngard as No. 2 Ronald Radd as Rook Patricia Jessel as 1st Psychiatrist [After viewing a chess game, No. 6 finds a way to distinguish the prisoners from the guardians and plans an escape.] 12/3/67 [#10] [videotape #14] Hammer Into Anvil Director: Pat Jackson Writer: Roger Woddis Patrick Cargill as No. 2 Basil Hoskins as No. 14 Victor Maddern as Band Master [The new Number 2 decides to hammer Number 6 until he breaks him, but Number 6 causes him a great amount of paranoia.] 12/10/67 [#11] [videotape #10] It's Your Funeral Director: Robert Asher Writer: Michael Cramoy Derren Nesbit as No. 2 Mark Eden as No. 100 Annette Andre as Watchmaker's Daughter [No. 6 comes across "jammers", who talk about revolutions and assassinations so often that the controllers of the village ignore everything they say. This pair of jammers is plotting to assassinate No. 2, but it looks like more than talk this time.] 12/17/67 [#12] [videotape #13] A Change of Mind Director: Joseph Serf Writer: Roger Parkes John Sharpe as No. 2 Angela Brown as No. 86 Angelo Muscat as The Butler [Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and undergoes rehabilitation ("social conversion").] 1/7/68 [#13] [videotape #9] Do Not Forsake Me O My Darling Director: Pat Jackson Writer: Vincent Tilsley Clifford Evans as No. 2 Nigel Stock as The Colonel Zena Walker as Janet [Dr. Seltzman's mind transference technique is used on Number 6. He is placed in another body (that of The Colonel) and wakes up in his apartment back in London. The whole scheme is using Number 6 to find Seltzman, since he was the doctor's last contact. This episode has a slightly different intro. Very little is seen of Patrick McGoohan.] 1/14/68 [#14] [videotape #12] Living in Harmony Director: David Tomblin Writer: David Tomblin David Bauer as The Judge Alexis Kanner as The Kid Valerie French as Kathy [This episode supposedly not aired during network broadcast. The setting isn't the village, it's an Old West town. No. 6 is a sheriff who has turned in his badge and is abducted and taken to a town called Harmony.] 1/21/68 [#15] The Girl Who Was Death Director: David Tomblin Writer: Terence Feely Kenneth Griffith as Schnipps Justin Lord as Sonia Harold Berens as Boxing MC [Number 6 as a secret agent must stop the evil scientist before he launches his rocket to destroy London, and must do so without being killed by the scientist's daughter, the girl who was Death. The character "Bowler" played by someone named John Drake.] 1/28/68 [#16] Once Upon A Time Director: Patrick McGoohan Writer: Patrick McGoohan Leo McKern as No. 2 Angelo Muscat as The Butler Peter Swanwick as The Supervisor Although this episode was screened as the 16th episode it was the 13th (last of the 1st season) to be filmed. An 8 month production gap took place between these last two episodes. [Number 2 and Number 6 battle it out in the Embryo Room beneath the village. Number 2 uses "degree absolute" to try to manipulate Number 6 into a psychologically malleable state.] 2/4/68 [#17] Fall Out Director: Patrick McGoohan Writer: Patrick McGoohan Leo McKern and Alexis Kanner as Number 2 and Number 48 Kenneth Griffith as The President Angelo Muscat as The Butler Peter Swanwick as The Supervisor [Number 6 is taken to Number 1.] nivek Arpanet: nivek@cmu-ri-rover Bell: (412) 578-8830 USmail: Robotics Institute CMU Schenley Park Pgh, PA 15213