I'VE RESIGNED. I WILL NOT BE PUSHED, FILED, STAMPED, INDEXED, BRIEFED, DEBRIEFED OR NUMBERED. MY LIFE IS MY OWN.

THE PRISONER is unique within the scope of television series. The creative force in behind, front of it and above all was principal actor and co-producer Patrick McGoohan.

PRISONER CONVENTION:
24th - 27th April 2026

This website is directed to German language visitors in the first place. However, a great number of articles, whole sections of it actually, is in German and English. E.g. the "Speedlearn" chapters are almost 100% bilingual with the English version right after or under the German text. The sign-posted chapters like "Chess lawn", "The Café" etc. are completely in English. And some of the articles under the "Tally Ho" heading are available in English, too, as they were originally written in that language. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to provide each and every article in both versions.

English links that may interest you:

INTERVIEW HORST NAUMANN (PDF)
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
BILL KING McGOOHAN INTERVIEW
GEORGE MARKSTEIN INTERVIEWED
ANTHONY SKENE TRILOGY (PDF)
PARALLEL PRISONER
THE PRISONER'S SHADOW SIDE
PATRICK McGOOHAN *1928 +2009
WHAT IT MEANS NOT WHAT IT SAYS
STEVEN RICKS: STUDIO DAYS - MGM

Commemorating the time when TV programmes were introduced by a (mostly) female announcer. Before the start of each episode viewers were given a short synopsis of the basic premise of the series. To be followed by the formulaic coda, "Tonight, from our rather off-beat spy-series NUMMER 6, we are presenting you the episode..."

The series was shown on Saturdays around midnight and in no particular time slot or running order, with long intervals in between episodes. Of course, as is known, only 13 episodes were dubbed into German. During the Summer Olympics of 1972 in Munich seven (of scheduled eight) episodes were screened again by ZDF, the eighth being cancelled after Palestinian terrorists had attacked the Israeli team.

The German debut of the remaining four (no dubbing this time) was as late as 2006 when the DVD set was published by Koch-Media.

It wasn't before the mid 80s when NUMMER 6 was given a rerun on German TV sets. This time the 13 German episodes were aired. But this event passed almost unnoticed by the public because commercial station Sat1 could be watched only by those happy few with access to cable TV. In 1989 and in 1992 NUMMER 6 received more attention thanks to the arrival of satellite TV.

ARTE REPEAT PRESS REVIEW
BY PATRICK DUCHER (LE RÔDEUR)
GERMAN DUBBING PREMIERE OF 4 EPISODES
REVIEWD BY ARNO BAUMGÄRTEL (NR6DE)
8 PAGES, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, DOWNLOAD