The Prisoner
(1967–1968)
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.
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Title: The General (05 Nov 1967)
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| Patrick McGoohan | ... | Number Six | |
| Colin Gordon | ... | Number Two | |
| John Castle | ... | Number Twelve | |
| Peter Howell | ... | Professor | |
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Angelo Muscat | ... | The Butler |
| Al Mancini | ... | Announcer | |
| Betty McDowall | ... | Professor's Wife | |
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Peter Swanwick | ... | Supervisor |
| Conrad Phillips | ... | Doctor | |
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Michael Miller | ... | Man in Buggy |
| Keith Pyott | ... | Waiter | |
| Ian Fleming | ... | Man at Cafe and First Top Hat | |
| Norman Mitchell | ... | Mechanic | |
| Bette Bourne | ... | Projection Operator (as Peter Bourne) | |
| George Leech | ... | First Corridor Guard | |
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The Professor is an academic who has created 'Speedlearn',a process for educating the villagers, broadcast from large TV screens and developed with the aid of 'The General',whom noone has seen. In order to prevent Number Two from subverting his creation to brain-wash the population,the Professor seeks the aid of Number Six to send out a subliminal message of freedom to the village but this fails. Finally Number Six gets to meet The General,who is certainly not what he expected. Written by don @ minifie-1
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5 November 1967 (UK) See more »Company Credits
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Written by Eric Peters
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The only appearance of the pass machine, which features a hand taking a security disc. See more »Goofs
As the professor's wife holds Number Six's drawing of her, a repaired tear can be seen running across the middle of it before she tears it in half a moment later, indicating it had been already been torn in a previous take. See more »Connections
Featured in The Dom Reviews: The Prisoner, the General & Many Happy Returns (2015) See more »Soundtracks
Electronic Mind(uncredited)
Written by Eric Peters
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Number six(Patrick McGoohan) becomes interested then alarmed in a new educational tool called "speedlearn" touted by number two(a returning Colin Gordon) that can instantaneously teach people facts and figures, which in theory would greatly reduce the need for traditional school, but in reality only feeds them knowledge without the ability to think about it, or more importantly, to reason, since this is really a brainwashing device created by a professor and used by a mysterious "general", which "six" is determined to uncover, though whose ultimate identity will come as a surprise... Effective episode is now a bit dated because of the clunky computer, but its themes of educational brainwashing for society/government still resonates today.