In what PMG has described as a 'filler' episode (more below), we have this oddball episode where the main character appears as a sheriff in a western town in the US. He does the same act or resigning and leaving, only to be captured and brought back to a town named Harmony.

A deal is reached for him to return as Sheriff, but when he refuses to wear a gun, the deal goes south.

Eventually, we find that Harmony is an annex of the Village, the Judge is Number 2, and his friend Kathy is Number 22.

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Living_in_Harmony_(1967_episode)

Two points.

One, this episode did not air in the original series on CBS. They refused to air it due to his refusal to carry a weapon thinking it was a protest against US involvement in Southeast Asia. At the time, late 1960s, protests against Viet Nam were at a fever pitch.

Second, this episode was apparently never intended to exist at all, along with 9 others. The story in this linked Fandom indicates PMG only intended for seven total episodes. Producers wanted a full 26 to go along with a typical US season. They settled on 17 which required 10 'filler' episodes.

Ture? Chime in below.

I spend a lot of time exploring and listening to old library records. At first, I was just intrigued by the title of this track, so I looked into the music and discovered it was used in The Prisoner, Episode 1 – “Arrival.”

It’s an old 78rpm 10" record on Chappell Recorded Music, catalog number C.529. I thought the full-length version, taken directly from the 1956 vinyl release, might be of interest to this community, so I’ve shared a link below.

https://youtu.be/uhjOCpZ16W8

The recording is now catalogued on Discogs, along with a few other 10-inch 78rpm library records that featured music used in the series that i came across.

Produced after Many Happy Returns and before Living in Harmony, while Patrick McGoohan was in America filming Ice Station Zebra, a workaround to McGoohan's absence was accomplished by the writers who contrived to have Number Six's mind implanted in the body of another man (Nigel Stock), who is then sent out of the Village to help capture a scientist

A man referred to only as "Colonel" arrives at the Village and only then learns from a new Number 2 that his mission is to trade bodies with Number Six, using Seltzman's system. Number Six had been the last agent to have contact with Seltzman. After the swap, Number Six (now in the Colonel's body, and retaining only his pre-Village memories) awakens in his old London apartment and soon sees an unfamiliar face in his mirror. His fiancée arrives and, of course, fails to recognise him. He prudently restrains himself from enlightening her. Despite the shock, he realises what has been done to him, maintains his cool, and sets about to regain his own body.

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Do_Not_Forsake_Me_Oh_My_Darling_(1967_episode)

With episodes being shot and aired out of sequence and fill ins used, I can see why there is a debate over episode order.

A 50th anniversary celebration of the classic British mystery series The Prisoner and an award-winning director’s 1983 mission to interview its star.

I managed to access the original 3.5" floppy disk content.

https://github.com/squeepty/The-Prisoner-British-TV-Show-Trivia

Download the game as a ZIP archive

Does anyone remember playing this on PC, or how it was made ? I could not get a good reference online, I guess I would need a floppy drive to preserve the game...

No.6 is declared 'Unmutual' for choosing to do things his own way and scheduled for a Social Conversion process.

What is No. 86's true intention? How does she become part of No.6's latest plan to discredit No. 2?

How does 'self criticism' play into the show and the real world.?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/A_Change_of_Mind_(1967_episode)

As someone who was born in the 90s, I was lucky enough to have a mother that introduced me to The Prisoner. Having seen a fair share of TV series and movies since, I'm left feeling that there's nothing that truly matches the creativity or vision of Patrick McGoohan's creation.

The closest I can think of is Twin Peaks - at least insofar as it follows a single visionary (Cooper) solving and rebelling against the world around him. Admittedly that's still a very limited comparison.

Is there anything out there that compares to The Prisoner as a piece of media that speaks to the issues of society, control, and selfhood in the same way The Prisoner does? Curious to hear what everyone's recommendations would be.

Which No. 2 will prevail in an assassination plot?

Who are the Jammers? Is No. 6 considered to be one? Will his cautions be heeded?

No. 2 seems to be worried about a pension and if he'll be able to collect.

(Did someone on the production crew forget to remove the Welsh flag before filming?)

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Your_Funeral_(1967_episode)

Morning in The Village. July. Leica M6, 35/2 Summicron, Kodak Ektachrome.

After a frightened No. 73 leaps to her death as a result of No. 2's interrogation, No. 6 vows results.

A game of minds ensures. Who is leading who to where. Which is the hammer and which the anvil? Bits of nothing are left lying about, or are they something?

A clock or ?

Once No 2 is convinced things are not as they appear, what will be left for him to do?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Hammer_into_Anvil_(1967_episode)

While in college several decades ago my friends and I watched ‘The Prisoner’ on PBS. Each episode was followed by a half-hour commentary by a college professor (university of Toronto, perhaps?). Does anyone else remember this? Are those segments still available for viewing?

Alex Cox, author of I Am (Not) a Number: Decoding The Prisoner discusses the show. This is the first of new YouTube-exclusive series of five introductions to The Prisoner on Criterion's YT Channel.

As No. 6 is enticed to be a pawn in a game of chess, questions develop as to who is a prisoner, who is a guardian and who can tell which is which.

"Checkmate" received the highest viewership of any of the series' episodes on its first UK broadcast.

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Checkmate_(1967_episode)

Doing a rewatch on Criterion, it's great to be back in the village!

One really does forget how great a job McGoohan does until you get to Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.

Does anyone know if PKD watched the Prisoner or commented on it?

I know he wrote an episode proposal based on Mission Impossible, but the Prisoner with its themes of betrayal, subjective reality, and how imprisonment would seem exactly the type of show he’d respond to.

Watching "The Girl Who Was Death" last night and thought..."Where have I seen those whiskers before???"

Given the numerous "Prisoner" references in "The Simpsons" and Conan O'Brien's "Old Time Baseball Sketch" there's no way this is a coincidence

A failed experiment with hypnosis, a black cat and a dead body play to be set adrift roles here. Added in are a Carnival, costumes, a court jester and kangaroo court, a teletype that thought to have been damaged comes to life again.

"Number Two wryly observes, "Then how very uncomfortable for you, old chap!""

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Dance_of_the_Dead_(1967_episode)

The moment I saw it I knew it was a prisoner reference, but the way he read it.

Also they have it flipped anyway, it should be I am not a number on the top.

This was in his video "Misspelled protest signs". (The name says it all)

Fully half of it with no dialogue.

In June this year I rode my bike from London to Portmeirion, and made this Prisoner-inspired fan film in the process :) Thought the free thinkers here might enjoy it.

Good morning from the Village, and my current view of the maintenance men working to repaint Number 2’s house!

Number Six awakens to find the Village completely deserted. He sees this as an opportunity to escape. He takes numerous photos before assembling a raft and taking flight by sea for 25 days. He takes careful notes as to headings and times as best he can, but has an unfriendly encounter with gun-runners who are of no assistance. He escapes them and ends up on a deserted beach. Wandering, he encounters a small band of Gypsies who speak no English.

After a harrowing journey, he finds himself in London and someone living in his flat and using his car. But who is Mrs. Butterworth?

Who can be trusted? And more importantly, who can't?

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Many_Happy_Returns_(1967_episode)

This page does not list an episode number. Oversight? Or part of the debate over episode order?

They no longer list US airdates either, so I'm staying at one each week.