The Prisoner
Fall Out
TV Flash files “Fall Out” as a desk essential hour — The Prisoner (1967–1968) on ITV, season 1, episode 17, aired 1968-02-04, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E17: listed hour 17 of 17 in the The Prisoner guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 1968-02-04 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “Once Upon a Time” (S01E16). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Fall Out”. Fall Out is the closer that still starts fights — seventeen episodes of pastel prison ending as a catalog dare, not a tidy bow.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Prisoner is presented to the President of the Assembly. He watches the trials of Number Forty Eight and the resuscitated Number Two. It is now his chance to finally meet Number One. As chaos breaks out, The Prisoner leaves The Village and heads for London.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Fall Out sit in the The Prisoner guide?
S01E17 is listed hour 17 of 17 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 17.
When did The Prisoner S01E17 air?
Fall Out aired 1968-02-04 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
Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six spends The Prisoner demanding identity in a pastel Village of surveillance — seventeen stylish, stubborn episodes, a finale that still starts arguments — after Danger Man’s John Drake practiced spy craft with…
- Angelo Muscat as The Butler
Angelo Muscat’s Butler haunted The Prisoner in silence — a secret agent resigns, a Village claims him, Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six spends seventeen episodes demanding identity in a pastel prison of surveillance. Stylish, stubborn…
- 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…