The Prisoner
Dance of the Dead
Season 1, Episode 8 · Aired 1967-11-26
Synopsis
Number Six discovers a dead man washed up on The Village beach. He finds a wallet and a radio set in the dead man's jacket. He hides the body in a cave and later tries the radio. Number Six later returns to the body with a life-belt and sets it afloat with a rescue note, although he is watched by a former colleague, Dutton. Number Two has been using Dutton to obtain information on Number Six but soon thinks Dutton is expendable. Number Six receives an invitation to The Village carnival where he meets Peter Pan and Little Bo-Peep.
In the series
This episode is part of The Prisoner (1967–1968) on ITV.
I am not a number — spy surrealism in a pastel prison village.
Key cast
- Patrick McGoohan as Number Six
- Angelo Muscat as The Butler
- Leo McKern as Number Two