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Episodes

Arrival • The Chimes of Big Ben • A. B. & C. • Free for All • The Schizoid Man • The General • Many Happy Returns
Dance of the Dead • Checkmate • Hammer into Anvil • It's Your Funeral • A Change of Mind
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling • Living in Harmony • The Girl Who Was Death • Once Upon A Time • Fall Out

Special Features

• Don’t Knock Yourself Out - an exclusive, feature-length documentary about the production of The Prisoner, told by those involved in its creation through a combination of archive and newly-filmed interviews with nearly 40 people, including Annette André, Bernard Williams, David Tomblin, Derren Nesbitt, Peter Wyngarde, Anton Rodgers, Michael Grade, George Baker and Peter Bowles.

• Audio Commentaries - Arrival with Bernie Williams and Tony Sloman, The Chimes of Big Ben with Vincent Tilsley, The Schizoid Man with Pat Jackson, The General with Peter Graham Scott, Dance of the Dead with Bernie Williams, Tony Sloman and John S. Smith, A Change of Mind with Roger Parkes and Fall Out with Eric Mival and Noreen Ackland.

• You Make Sure It Fits - exclusive featurette in which music editor Eric Mival discusses his role behind the scenes in making The Prisoner and provides a unique look at the 'Music Bible' for the show.

• Peter Wyngarde in The Pink Prisoner - Peter Wyngarde pays tribute to The Prisoner  in a unique cross between an interview and comedy sketch, in his own incomparable style. Written by and starring Peter Wyngarde.

• Arrival and The Chimes of Big Ben (Original Edits) - the original edit of Arrival in a digital restoration from the original 35mm film elements, along with a music-only soundtrack featuring Wilfred Josephs’ complete and abandoned score. Also included is the previously-available original edit of The Chimes of Big Ben.

• Arrival Original Edit Restoration - a featurette using split-screen to demonstrate the scale of restoration required for this episode.

• Trailers - digitally restored trailers for all seventeen episodes and two generic trailers.

• Commercial Break Bumpers.

• Behind-the-Scenes footage - this unique footage, taken on location at Portmeirion, shows a number of aspects of the location filming, including the only known footage to exist of the original, abandoned Rover prototype. From the collection of and © Steven Ricks.

• Archive Material - includes textless titles with clean themes by Ron Grainer, Wilfred Josephs and Robert Farnon, as well as material from Living in Harmony, Fall Out, Rover, foreign Filing Cabinet title footage and the McGoohan photo montage from Arrival.

• Television's Greatest Hits (excerpt) - Patrick McGoohan interview by Mike Smith from 12 March 1983 edition.

• Patrick McGoohan audio interview - Roger Goodman interviews Patrick McGoohan in 1979 in Dublin during the filming of The Hard Way.

• Lava lamp footage.

• Image Archive - individual galleries of over 1200 stills, with episodic ones on Discs 1-4 featuring generic/publicity photos, coverage of the original Press Conference in 1967 and Jack Shampan’s designs. Also included on Disc 5, courtesy of the Steven Ricks Collection, is a series of Exposure Strips produced originally by the film labs when prepping rushes. As well as showing a number of clapperboards and other key items of interest they also detail the filming of some scenes that were omitted from the finished episodes.

• The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide - an exclusive book on the making of the series by Andrew Pixley.

• Dolby 5.1 Audio Mix - each of the seventeen episodes can be listened to in either original Mono or Dolby 5.1 remix.

Notes

• The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide, the Andrew Pixley book included in this set, was a 'reset' version of the same book that came with the 2007 40th Anniversary DVD set. The Network logo reverted to its standard version, without the penny farthing 'O', and the back cover text was relaid and reworded. It was stated as a second edition.

Episodes

Arrival • The Chimes of Big Ben • A. B. & C. • Free for All • The Schizoid Man • The General • Many Happy Returns
Dance of the Dead • Checkmate • Hammer into Anvil • It's Your Funeral • A Change of Mind
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling • Living in Harmony • The Girl Who Was Death • Once Upon A Time • Fall Out

Special Features

• On-disc features as per 2009 Network limited edition Blu-ray set.

Notes

• Standalone Blu-ray release made available simultaneously alongside the limited edition set. This edition came in an Amaray-style plastic case (22mm spine) with subtly different artwork that highlighted Patrick McGoohan's approval of the High Definition restoration of The Prisoner.

• Andrew Pixley's book was not included in this edition.

includes Arrival

Episodes

The Saint: The Queen's Ransom • Danger Man: No Marks for Servility
The Prisoner: Arrival • Gideon's Way: The Tin God
Man in a Suitcase: Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins?

Episodes

Arrival • The Chimes of Big Ben • A. B. & C. • Free for All • The Schizoid Man • The General • Many Happy Returns
Dance of the Dead • Checkmate • Hammer into Anvil • It's Your Funeral • A Change of Mind
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling • Living in Harmony • The Girl Who Was Death • Once Upon A Time • Fall Out

Special Features

• In My Mind - a brand-new, feature length documentary in which director Chris Rodley recalls his 1983 efforts to interview Patrick McGoohan for a Channel 4 documentary. The film features interviews with Catherine McGoohan, rare archive footage and never-before-seen interview sessions with McGoohan himself.

• The Prisoner - An Illustrated History (Hardcover Book) - Andrew Pixley’s updated history of the series illustrated with rare and never-before-published photographs.

• Original Soundtrack and Library Music Remastered (6 CD set) - this release brings together all of the specially-composed music and library tracks in one collection for the first time, along with many alternate and unused takes.

• All 17 episodes presented with new text commentaries by Rick Davy, detailing the production history.

• Many Happy Returns - a new featurette revisiting the original locations used in The Prisoner.

• Filming Arrival - newly-discovered home movie footage of the filming of Arrival.

• Danger Man: A View from the Villa and Colony Three - these two episodes, both relevant to The Prisoner, are presented here in High Definition. (The former had previously featured on the Retro-Action 3 Blu-ray in 2010.)

• Stills Galleries - featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs from official and personal archives.

• Catherine McGoohan reflects on her father's work and legacy.

• The Prisoner Puzzle - in a rare appearance to talk about the series, Patrick McGoohan is interviewed by Warner Troyer in an exclusive programme for TV-Ontario from 1977.

• Portmeirion 1939 - recently discovered 16mm Kodachrome amateur footage of Portmeirion showing the early days of its development, circa 1939.

• Pathe News: Beauty and the Beast - Pathe News' initial visit to Portmeirion in 1939 presents the first opportunity to give the village mass exposure via Britain's cinema screens.

• Pathe News: Italy in Wales - Pathe News returns to Portmeirion in 1962, this time in Technicolor.

• Leslie Gilliat Recce 35mm Transparencies - Producer Leslie Gilliat was assigned to The Prisoner in the early stages of the project and visited Portmeirion in 1966 to photograph the village. These 35mm transparencies are the results of that recce and present some initial ideas for the buildings' use in the series.

• Film Trims - a selection of trims from Arrival, Many Happy Returns, The Chimes of Big Ben and The Girl Who Was Death.

• Radio On - Radio 1 DJ Simon Bates was given a rare opportunity to interview Patrick McGoohan when he visited the NEC in Birmingham to be presented with a Caterham Super 7.

• Patrick McGoohan 1983 - an outtake from one of Chris Rodley's full interview sessions with Patrick McGoohan for the original Six Into One – The Prisoner File documentary.

• ITC Promo Reel - Discovered in 2006 in ITV's vaults, this showreel is an example of what Lew Grade would have shown to his US network clients in their preview theatres in pursuit of a sale. It hasn't been seen beyond its original use in 1967.

Notes

• Network staged a 50th Anniversary event at Portmeirion on 29 September 2017 to tie in with this release. Cast and crew present included Seamus Byrne, Annette André, Fenella Fielding, Jane Merrow, Derren Nesbitt, Norma West, Peter Wyngarde, as well as Catherine McGoohan, and the Big Finish team including writer Nicholas Briggs, 'the new Number 6' Mark Elstob and Nickolas Grace. Another of the day's highlights was the screening of two Prisoner episodes - Dance of the Dead and Checkmate - in the Hercules Hall, projected in 35mm.

• As part of the ticket price for the event, attendees were given the opportunity to choose between receiving a Blu-ray or DVD version of the new 50th Anniversary 'Village Editions' Blu-ray or DVD + CD + book set. However, the copies handed out on the day were all missing Disc 6 (In My Mind), which was not fully cleared in time for the event. Corrected sets were sent out a short while later.

Part of Network's publicity drive for this release, designed by Martin Cater

Image: Martin Cater / Network Distributing

Episodes

Arrival • The Chimes of Big Ben • A. B. & C. • Free for All • The Schizoid Man • The General • Many Happy Returns
Dance of the Dead • Checkmate • Hammer into Anvil • It's Your Funeral • A Change of Mind
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling • Living in Harmony • The Girl Who Was Death • Once Upon A Time • Fall Out

Special Features

• On-disc features as per 2017 Network 'Village Editions' Blu-ray set.

Notes

• This 50th anniversary comprised the six Blu-ray discs from the 50th Anniversary 'Village Editions' release of September 2017, omitting the 6 compact discs and printed content included in that set. As per the Village Editions set, this Blu-ray set came packaged in a Digipak.

Programmes

Special Features

• Patrick McGoohan 1983: an outtake from one of Chris Rodley's full interview sessions

• Catherine McGoohan 2017: Catherine McGoohan speaks candidly about her father's work and legacy

Notes

• In My Mind was a feature length documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Prisoner. It was written and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Chris Rodley. The film recounts one of Rodley's early filmmaking experiences: an attempt to interview Patrick McGoohan for the 1983 Channel 4 documentary Six into One: The Prisoner File. The interview didn't go quite to plan, as In My Mind reveals.

• A DVD version (catalogue number 7954817) was issued simultaneously.

includes Arrival

Episodes

DISC TWO:
The Saint: The Queen's Ransom • Danger Man: No Marks for Servility • The Prisoner: Arrival •
Gideon's Way: The Tin God • Man in a Suitcase: Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins?

DISC THREE:
The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Sheriff's Boots • Shirley's World: The Rally •
H.G. Wells' Invisible Man: Secret Experiment • The Baron: Something for a Rainy Day •
Return of the Saint: One Black September • The Zoo Gang: Revenge: Post-Dated •
Danger Man: View from the Villa

Episodes

Arrival • The Chimes of Big Ben • A. B. & C. • Free for All • The Schizoid Man • The General • Many Happy Returns
Dance of the Dead • Checkmate • Hammer into Anvil • It's Your Funeral • A Change of Mind
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling • Living in Harmony • The Girl Who Was Death • Once Upon A Time • Fall Out

Special Features

• On-disc features as per 2017 Network 'Village Editions' Blu-ray set.

Notes

• This reissue comprised the six Blu-ray discs from the 50th Anniversary 'Village Editions' release of September 2017, omitting the 6 compact discs and printed content included in that set. In a change from the similar 2017 standalone Blu-ray set, this new edition came in a sturdy Amaray-style case with a 24mm spine.