The Prisoner
It's Your Funeral
TV Flash files “It's Your Funeral” as hour 11 of 17 in the TV Flash guide — The Prisoner (1967–1968) on ITV, season 1, episode 11, aired 1967-12-17, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E11: listed hour 11 of 17 in the The Prisoner guide, hour 11 of 17 in season 1. It aired 1967-12-17 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “Hammer Into Anvil” (S01E10). Next is “A Change of Mind” (S01E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Prisoner is tricked into discovering an assassination plot - but who is going to be killed? Number Two knows that Number Six is the only man in The Village capable of stopping a murder so he attempts to discredit him. After Number Six finds out about the plot he goes to warn Number Two who records the warning and doctors the tape. After a new Number Two arrives in The Village, Number Six realises that the intended target is not who he first thought.
Viewer FAQ
Where does It's Your Funeral sit in the The Prisoner guide?
S01E11 is listed hour 11 of 17 — hour 11 of 17 in season 1, season 1 episode 11.
When did The Prisoner S01E11 air?
It's Your Funeral aired 1967-12-17 and is listed at 50 minutes.
Where should I start?
Episode one is the resignation-and-Village contract. The series is only 17 hours; starting at the beginning is the point, not a sample platter.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A secret agent resigns; a Village claims him. Patrick McGoohan's Number Six spends seventeen episodes demanding identity in a pastel prison of surveillance and untrustworthy faces. Stylish, stubborn, endlessly rewatchable spy-allegory — and a finale that still starts arguments. Be seeing you.
A secret agent resigns; a Village claims him. Patrick McGoohan's Number Six spends **seventeen episodes** (ITV, 1967–1968) demanding identity in a pastel prison of surveillance, mind games, and untrustworthy faces. George Markstein co-shaped the thing with him. Angelo Muscat's Butler and Leo McKern's Number Two orbit the refusal to be numbered. Each escape fails differently. *Arrival* is the capture. *Fall Out* is the closer that still starts fights. On the palate: penny-farthings, Rovers, and a greeting that is…
Filed against
- Patrick McGoohan as Number Six
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- Angelo Muscat as The Butler
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- Leo McKern as Number Two
Leo McKern occupied the Village as Number Two on The Prisoner — not a single villain so much as the job title that kept asking Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six who he was. Pastel prison, untrustworthy faces, a finale still starting…