An episode guide to

by Donna R. Lemaster

1967-1968 17 eps

ITV/CBS 60 minutes

regulars:

The sequence is the one used in the videocassette release and the order used by CBS during its summer run of the series in 1968.

An unnamed British intelligence officer who has just resigned is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious isolated village. There he is given the label "Number Six" and questioned by "Number Two" about the reasons for his leaving his job.

Number Six joins forces with Nadia, a fellow prisoner, to build an arts and crafts project that can help them escape the Village.

[NOTE: An alternate version of this episode exists that contains a different theme and several different scenes. It was never broadcast, but is now available on prerecorded video in the US.]

Number Two attempts to learn the reason for Number Six's resignation by recreating a crucial party in Number Six's dreams, and observing his actions on a video monitor.

Number Two persuades Number Six to run against him in the upcoming Village elections by promising him a meeting with the elusive Number One if he wins.

Number Six faces a bizarre identity crises when Number Two alters his appearance, begins referring to him as "Number Twelve" and brings in a ringer for Number Six whom he treats as the real thing.

Colin Gordon, John Castle, Peter Howell

written by Joshua Adam directed by Peter Graham

Number Six is naturally suspicious of the new speed-learning process the Village authorities have introduced.

Awakening alone in the Village one morning, Number Six builds a raft and returns to London, where his superiors are very sceptical of his story.

Number Six is placed on trial after he attempts to smuggle a message to the outside by planting it on a dead body that washed up on the shore.

Number Two uses a bizarre machine to place Number Six's mind in the body of an Army colonel, then sends him to London in pursuit of the missing scientist who built the machine.

Number Six learns of a planned assassination attempt against Number Two but no one will believe him.

Number Six plays the pawn in a life-size chess game in which Number Two hopes to use the brainwashed Queen against him.

Number Six finds himself in an old American West setting where a heavy handed judge forces him to become the sheriff in order to save a beautiful woman's life, despite the fact that Number Six refuses to wear a gun.

[NOTE:This episode was not shown on CBS in 1968.]

Having been declared "unmutual", Number Six finds himself subjected to mind-altering treatments of drugs and sound waves designed to make him more complacent.

Number Six decides to avenge the death of young girl bullied into suicide by Number Two, by convincing Number Two that he, Number Six, is a spy sent in to check up on Two.

Number Six finds himself in a lighthouse that isn't what it seems with a girl who calls herself "Death".

A former Number Two returns to the Village in desperation and uses drugs and an electronic mind probe to make Number Six relive his entire life in an effort to alter his rebellious tendencies.

Having survived the last-ditch efforts of Number Two, Number Six is awarded the right to become an individual, learns the identity of Number One and seizes an opportunity to leave the Village.