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After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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- E1 ArrivalNext upSep 29, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Paul Eddington (Cobb), George Baker (The New Number Two), Denis Shaw (Shopkeeper), Fabia Drake (Welfare Worker), Virginia Maskell (The Woman), Guy Doleman (Number Two)
- E2 The Chimes of Big BenOct 6, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 8.1
Synopsis
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Leo McKern (Former Number Two), Nadia Gray (Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8), Richard Wattis (Fotheringay), Kevin Stoney (Colonel J.), Finlay Currie (General), Christopher Benjamin (Number Two's Assistant)
- E3 A., B. and C.Oct 13, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
Number 2 believes that Number 6 resigned because he was going to sell out. Using dream manipulation, Number 2 tries to determine which one of three possible candidates Number 6 was dealing with.
Guest stars: Colin Gordon (Number Two), Peter Bowles ('A'), Sheila Allen (Number Fourteen), Katherine Kath (Engadine), Lucille Soong (Flower Girl), Georgina Cookson (Blonde Lady), Annette Carell ('B'), Bettine Le Beau (Maid)
- E4 Free for AllOct 20, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
Number 6 runs for the office of Number 2.
Guest stars: Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Eric Portman (Number Two), George Benson (Labour Exchange Manager), Rachel Herbert (Number Fifty Eight), Harold Berens (Reporter), John Cazabon (Man in Cave), Dene Cooper (Photographer), Kenneth Benda (Supervisor)
- E5 The Schizoid ManOct 27, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Anton Rodgers (Number Two), Earl Cameron (Supervisor), Jane Merrow (Alison / Number Twenty-Four), Gay Cameron (Number Thirty-Six), David Nettheim (Doctor), Pat Keen (Nurse), Gerry Crampton (Guardian), Dinny Powell (Guardian)
- E6 The GeneralNov 3, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
An instant learning process becomes the Village's latest fad, but Number 6 is sure that Number 2 is using it as a brain washing tool.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Colin Gordon (Number Two), Conrad Phillips (Doctor), John Castle (Number Twelve), Al Mancini (Announcer), Keith Pyott (Waiter), Peter Howell (Professor), Betty McDowall (Professor's Wife)
- E7 Many Happy ReturnsNov 10, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 6.9
Synopsis
Number 6 wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Guest stars: Donald Sinden (The Colonel), Richard Caldicot (Commander), Brian Worth (Group Captain), Georgina Cookson (Mrs. Butterworth / Number Two), Grace Arnold (Number Thirty Six), Patrick Cargill (Thorpe), Dennis Chinnery (Gunther), Jon Laurimore (Ernst)
- E8 Dance of the DeadNov 17, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Mary Morris (Number Two), Norma West (Girl Bo-Peep), Aubrey Morris (Town Crier / Roman Emperor), Duncan Macrae (Doctor / Napoleon Bonaparte), Alan White (Dutton), Patsy Smart (Night Maid), George Merritt (Postman)
- E9 CheckmateNov 24, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
Inspired by a large chess game with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number 6 formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.
Guest stars: Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Ronald Radd (Rook), George Coulouris (Man with the Stick), Denis Shaw (Shopkeeper), Rosalie Crutchley (Queen), Peter Wyngarde (Number Two), Terence Donovan (Sailor), Basil Dignam (Supervisor)
- E10 Hammer into AnvilDec 1, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
Number 6 vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number 2 after he drives a fellow village resident to her death.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Victor Maddern (Bandmaster), Patrick Cargill (Number Two), Basil Hoskins (Number Fourteen), Norman Scace (Psychiatric Director), Derek Aylward (New Supervisor), Hilary Dwyer (Number Seventy-Three), Arthur Gross (Control Room Operator)
- E11 It's Your FuneralDec 8, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 6.2
Synopsis
Number Six hears of an assassination plot against Number Two, but it's the new Number Two doing all the plotting against the retiring Number Two.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), Derren Nesbitt (New Number Two), Mark Eden (Number One Hundred), André van Gyseghem (Retiring Number Two), Michael Bilton (M.C. Councillor), Annette Andre (Watchmaker's Daughter), Martin Miller (Watchmaker / Number Fifty Four)
- E12 A Change of MindDec 15, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 6.8
Synopsis
After a brawl Number 6 is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social conversion."
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Fenella Fielding (Loudspeaker Announcer), John Sharp (Number Two), Thomas Heathcote (Lobo Man), George Pravda (Doctor), Angela Browne (Number Eighty-Six), Kathleen Breck (Number Forty-Two), Bartlett Mullins (Committee Chairman)
- E13 Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My DarlingDec 22, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 6.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Nigel Stock (The Colonel / Number Six / Seltzman), Zena Walker (Janet Portland), Clifford Evans (Number Two), Gertan Klauber (Cafe Waiter), Lloyd Lamble (Stapleton), Patrick Jordan (Danvers), Lockwood West (Camera Shop Manager), Hugo Schuster (Professor Jacob Seltzman / The Colonel)
- E14 Living in HarmonyDec 29, 1967 · 50 min · ★ 5.3
Synopsis
Number 6 finds himself in the middle of a wild west version of his imprisonment.
Guest stars: David Bauer (The Judge / Number Two), Alexis Kanner (Number Forty Eight / The Kid), Valerie French (Kathy), Gordon Tanner (Town Elder), Michael Balfour (Will), Larry Taylor (Mexican Sam), Gordon Sterne (Bystander), Monti DeLyle (Town Dignitary)
- E15 The Girl Who Was DeathJan 19, 1968 · 50 min · ★ 6.4
Synopsis
Back in London, Number 6 is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.
Guest stars: Justine Lord (Sonia), Joe Gladwin (Yorkshire Napoleon), Michael Brennan (Killer Karminski), Christopher Benjamin (Potter), Kenneth Griffith (Schnipps / Number Two), Harold Berens (Boxing M.C.), Sheena Marshe (Barmaid), Max Faulkner (Scots Napoleon)
- E16 Once Upon a TimeJan 26, 1968 · 50 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Leo McKern (Former Number Two), John Cazabon (Umbrella Man), Ann Barrass (Technician), John Maxim (Number Eighty Six), Angelo Muscat (Le majordome)
- E17 Fall OutFeb 2, 1968 · 51 min · ★ 6.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Peter Swanwick (The Supervisor), Kenneth Griffith (The President), Leo McKern (Former Number Two), Alexis Kanner (Number Forty Eight / The Kid), Angelo Muscat (Le majordome)
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