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Number Six is the central character in the 1967–1968 television series The Prisoner. The unnamed character in the original TV series was played by series co-creator Patrick McGoohan. For one episode, "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling", Number Six was portrayed by Nigel Stock due to McGoohan being away filming the movie Ice Station Zebra. [1]
According to The Prisoner by Robert Fairclough, had the serial been renewed for a second series, the format would have followed that presented in this episode, with Number 6 being sent out on missions on behalf of The Village. Also missing from the episode is the usual Number Two introductory sequence that follows the opening titles.
The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. [2] McGoohan portrays Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position. [3]
Although the episode "The General" was produced and broadcast on ITV after the "A. B. and C." episode, logically this episode is meant to take place before "The General" as Number 2 introduces himself as "I am Number 2" in opening intro for this episode as opposed to "I am the new Number 2" which that line is said in the opening intro for "The ...
A 2018 comic book miniseries, The Prisoner: The Uncertainty Machine (Titan Comics) does not feature Number 6 (despite images of Patrick McGoohan from the series used on the covers of each issue), but is set in the present day in the same continuity of the TV series and as such is implied to take place after the events of "Fall Out".
In their book, The Official Prisoner Companion, Matthew White and Jaffer Ali state that actress Norma West said that McGoohan told her the gesture was used by early Christians; it was the sign of the fish (the documentary The Prisoner Video Companion, originally released on VHS in the 1980s and later on DVD by A&E, also makes this statement).
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The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features John Sharp as Number Two. [3] Themes explored include coerced confessions and political control via drugs; also conformity , methods of enforcing it, and the consequences of its rejection.