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The General: Directed by Peter Graham Scott. With Patrick McGoohan, Colin Gordon, John Castle, Peter Howell. An instant learning process becomes the Village's latest fad, but Number Six is sure that Number Two is using it as a brain washing tool.
- (854)
- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Peter Graham Scott
- 1967-11-05
Was on the same tape as "A, B and C" (https://youtu.be/QzmS2uaT7yQ)
- 51 min
- 479
- The Rogue Archivist
This week's kooky sixties chick, number 48, tries to make Number 6 a drugged cup of tea. However, Number 6 swaps the cups, and she is then drugged and reveals to him that their Special Machine is...
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Number 6 — along with the rest of the Village population — is subjected to a new mind-altering education technology called "Speed Learn" which can instill a three-year university level course in history over a television screen in just three minutes. It was invented and is "taught" by an avuncular individual known as "The Professor" who is neverthe...
Cast
1. Patrick McGoohan as The Prisoner
Crew
1. Written by Joshua Adam 2. Script Editor: George Markstein 3. Produced by David Tomblin 4. Directed by Peter Graham Scott 5. Executive Producer: Patrick McGoohan 6. Production Manager: Bernard Williams 7. Director of Photography: Brendan J. StaffordB.S.C. 8. Art Director: Jack Shampan 9. Camera Operator: Jack Lowin 10. Editor: John S. Smith 11. Theme by Ron Grainer 12. Incidental Music: Albert Elms 13. Cameraman (2nd Unit): Robert Monks 14. Assistant Director: Gino Marotta 15. Sound Editor:...
'The General' is first mentioned by Number 2 in the episode "The Schizoid Man". That episode also featured another Villager with the Number 12, in this case Number 6's doppelgänger. While the Numbe...Neither the Professor or his wife are assigned a number.One of the busts that Number Six pulls the dust sheet off in the Professor's house is that of the Number Two played by Leo McKern in the prior episode The Chimes of Big Ben. The bust was originally...The twist ending is similar to the The Twilight Zoneepisode "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963).Chris Gregory believes the episode to be "memorable" and highly melodramatic". He describes the ending as "[fitting in] well with the subtext of the series", but also say "the revelation that ‘The General is a powerful computer is a stock science fiction device." Alain Carrazé and Hélène Oswald compare the ending of the episode to the story of Davi...
Bibliography
1. (1989) The Prisoner. London: W H Allen, 91, 94. ISBN 1-85227-338-0. 2. (1997) Be Seeing You... Decoding The Prisoner. Lutton, Bedfordshire: John Libbey Media, 95. ISBN 1-860205-21-6. 3. The Prisoner: The Original Scripts, foreword by Lewis Greifer, Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-903111-76-5. OCLC 61145235.– script of episode
The Prisoner is an allegorical British science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. A single season of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968. The first episode in the UK aired in September 1967, although the global premiere was in Canada several weeks earlier. The series was released in the US in June 1968.
The enigmatic General instigates a speed learning plan among the residents of the Village. Read the complete story summary at Wikipedia . Notes from the Prisoner chronology
"The Prisoner" The General (TV Episode 1967) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
