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Watch all 17 episodes of the landmark 1960s television series THE PRISONER on the Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-prisoner-1
This is the second in Criterion’s new YouTube-exclusive series of five introductions to THE PRISONER by Alex Cox, writer, director, and author of *_I Am (Not) a Number: Decoding_ The Prisoner* (2017). Watch the first episode in this playlist, and check back weekly for new installments! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLda8rHecQSyM
Head to the Criterion Channel to enjoy four films by Alex Cox–including REPO MAN (1984) and WALKER (1987)–playing for a limited time: https://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-alex-cox
Order *_I Am (Not) a Number: Decoding_ The Prisoner* here: https://www.kamerabooks.co.uk/bookpage.php?isbn=9780857301758
Below are the episodes of THE PRISONER in their *production order,* as recommended by Cox–with the *original UK broadcast order* (which is also the order in which they are arranged on the Criterion Channel) in square brackets:
1. Arrival [1]
2. Free for All [4]
3. Checkmate [9]
4. Dance of the Dead [8]
5. The Chimes of Big Ben [2]
6. Once Upon a Time [16]
7. The Schizoid Man [5]
8. It’s Your Funeral [11]
9. A Change of Mind [12]
10. A. B. and C. [3]
11. The General [6]
12. Hammer into Anvil [10]
13. Many Happy Returns [7]
14. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling [13]
15. Living in Harmony [14]
16. The Girl Who Was Death [15]
17. Fall Out [17]
*About _The Prisoner_*
Long before TWIN PEAKS beamed prime-time surrealism into the American living room, there was THE PRISONER, the 1960s British cult sensation that pushed television into new realms of unsettling, Kafkaesque mystery. Series creator Patrick McGoohan stars as a nameless spy who, after he abruptly resigns from his highly classified job, is kidnapped and held in a strange, deceptively idyllic town known only as the Village.
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