"The Prisoner" was a British science fiction psychological thriller that aired from 1967 to 1968, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan. The series followed a former secret agent who resigned from his job and was subsequently kidnapped and taken to a mysterious village where he was assigned the number Six. The inhabitants constantly tried to extract the reason for his resignation whilst he plotted escape and maintained his individuality against their mind games. Patrick McGoohan deliberately

Over five decades on from its first UK broadcast, The Prisoner remains as fresh and dynamic as when it was first unleashed upon the world in 1967. Patrick McGoohan and "Number 6" were both born on the same day, 19th March 1928, according to the episode Arrival. | Network Distributing