The Prisoner

The Prisoner (1967)

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Number 6: Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.

Number 6: Be seeing you.

Number 6: I am not a number. I am a person.

Number 6: I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.

Number Two: I'm the boss.
Number 6: No. One is the boss.

Number 6: Everybody votes for a dictator.

The Double: The trouble with science is that it can be perverted.

Number 6: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

Number 6: If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.

Number 6: Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.

The Chimes of Big Ben - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Number 6 chooses a rather thin tree to cut down and fashion into his canoe. Somehow, when he's finished hewing out the wood to form the boat, it's considerably wider than the tree he started with.

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Free for All - S1-E4

Trivia: This episode's writing credit reads "Paddy Fitz." This was one of many pseudonyms Patrick McGoohan used in writing, directing and producing most of the series himself. "Fitz" was borrowed from his mother's maiden name, Fitzpatrick.

Jean G

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Chosen answer: We're led to believe Rover is some kind of robot in the series. According to books on the show, Patrick McGoohan was looking for an unusual guardian for the Village, looked up at the sky, and saw a weather balloon, which was what Rover was.

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