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Episodes

• Map of the Village

• Number Two Sections: Text Biographies of Guy Doleman, George Baker, Leo McKern, Colin Gordon and Eric Portman

• The Prisoner Facts Text Feature

• Episode Trailers

• Carlton Cool Spies and Private Eyes Trailer

• Chapter Points / Carlton Publicity Leaflet

Episodes

• Original Artwork: Publicity Brochure

• Number Two Sections: Text Biographies of Anton Rodgers, Colin Gordon, Georgina Cookson and Mary Morris

• The Prisoner Facts

• Episode Trailers

• Carlton Cool Spies and Private Eyes Trailer

• Chapter Points / Carlton Publicity Leaflet

Episodes

• Original Artwork: Publicity Card

• Number Two Sections: Text Biographies of Peter Wyngarde, Patrick Cargill, Derren Nesbitt and John Sharp

• The Prisoner Facts

• Episode Trailers

• Carlton Cool Spies and Private Eyes Trailer

• Chapter Points / Carlton Publicity Leaflet

Episodes

• Original Artwork: ITC Postcard

• Number Two Sections: Text Biographies of Clifford Evans, David Bauer, Kenneth Griffith and Leo McKern

• The Prisoner Facts

• Episode Trailers

• Carlton Cool Spies and Private Eyes Trailer

• Chapter Points / Carlton Publicity Leaflet

Episodes

• Bonus Episode: The 'Alternate' Chimes of Big Ben - an American Press Preview Edition

• The Prisoner Video Companion (US documentary, previously released on VHS)

• ....In Production Stills Gallery

• Number Two Sections: Text Biography of Leo McKern

• The Prisoner Facts

• Episode Trailer

• Series Trailers

• Carlton Cool Spies and Private Eyes Trailer

• Chapter Points / Carlton Publicity Leaflet

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

• As per individual volumes. No additional content.

• This boxset, released simultaneously with the individual volumes, marked the debut of The Prisoner on DVD.

• This release was lauded as 'Digitally Restored', but the reality was not quite what the term promised, as the restoration was done in real-time (three Archangel passes, reputedly) rather than it being a frame-by-frame clean-up. Consequently pictures were somewhat soft and smeary.

Episodes

• A Brief History of Arrival (text feature)

• Interview with production manager Bernard Williams (30 minutes)

• For the Love of... featurette about Prisoner memorabilia collectors (7 minutes)

• Patrick McGoohan biography and photo gallery

• George Markstein biography and photo gallery

• Penny Farthing Commercial Break Bumpers

• Textless opening titles and end credits sequences

• Foreign language filing cabinet sequence

• Renault 21 Prisoner Commercial

• Stills Gallery

• Merchandise Gallery

• Collectors' Edition Booklet (24 pages)

• Several of the special features included on this DVD are unique to the Carlton / Granada Ventures editions of The Prisoner, including the Renault 21 advert, For the Love of... and the interview with Bernard Williams.

Episodes

• This was a cover disc, given free to readers of the December 2002 edition of PC Pro magazine. In addition to Arrival, this hybrid DVD / DVD-ROM disc also included a variety of free or trial computer software for Windows. It could be played on DVD players and DVD-ROM computer drives, though the PC software was only accessible on the latter.

includes Arrival

Episodes

Danger Man: Koroshi • The Persuaders!: Overture
The Prisoner: Arrival • The Saint: The House on Dragon's Rock

Episodes

• All special features and collectible booklet from 35th Anniversary Prisoner Companion DVD, plus:

• Episode Trailers

• Map of the Village

• Number Two Section

• View Original Artwork - publicity card

• Series Trailers

• Production Stills Gallery

• Bonus Episode: The 'Alternate' Chimes of Big Ben - an American Press Preview Edition

• The Prisoner Video Companion (US documentary)

• Five collectable postcards

• Several of the special features included on this DVD set are unique to the Carlton / Granada Ventures editions of The Prisoner, including the Renault 21 advert, For the Love of..., The Prisoner Video Companion and the interview with Bernard Williams.

includes Checkmate

Episodes

The Saint: The Man Who Liked Lions • Danger Man: The Mirror's New
Gideon's Way: The White Rat • The Baron: Countdown
The Prisoner: Checkmate • Man in a Suitcase: The Sitting Pigeon
The Champions: Autokill • Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Just for the Record
Strange Report: REPORT 2641: HOSTAGE 'If You Won't Learn, Die!' • Department S: A Small War of Nerves
From a Bird's Eye View: Sicilian Affair • The Persuaders!: A Death in the Family
Shirley's World: The Berkeley Club Caper • Jason King: To Russia ­ With Panache
The Protectors: Shadbolt • The Adventurer: Action!
The Zoo Gang: The Counterfeit Trap • Return of the Saint: Yesterday's Hero

Programmes

• None

• On Sunday 7 August 2005, Peter Graham Scott (Director: The Prisoner and Danger Man), Eric Mival (Music Editor: The Prisoner), John S. Smith (Film Editor: The Prisoner) and Robert Fairclough (TV Historian and Author) joined a sell-out crowd at Portmeirion's Hercules Hall for a celebration of Patrick McGoohan, Danger Man, The Prisoner and Portmeirion, in aid of Ty Gobaith Children's Hospice in North Wales.

• The 2-hour PM 2005 DVD featured highlights from the event, including in-depth interviews with the guests, a report on The Lego Village, highlights from the Portmeirion guided tour, guest press call, and additional unseen candid interview footage.

• Despite the packaging noting the disc as DVD-R format, the disc inside was in fact a proper pressed DVD.

• The DVD played without a menu screen.

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.

• Arrival and The Chimes of Big Ben (Original Edits) - the original edit of Arrival in a brand new 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.

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

• 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.

• Production Paperwork Archive - original scripts for each episode are included on Discs 1-6 and Disc 7 contains some original production documentation, press releases and other memorabilia.  This unique collection was sourced from the personal archives of Tony Sloman, Steven Ricks and Simon Coward and was reproduced with their permission and assistance.

• Image Archive - individual galleries of over 1200 stills, with episodic ones appearing on Discs 1-6 and Disc 7 featuring generic/publicity photos, coverage of the original Press Conference in 1967 and Jack Shampan’s designs. Also included on Disc 6, 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.

• Commercial Break Bumpers.

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

Notes

• This release was a total game changer for ITC releases, let alone for The Prisoner, as it was the first to benefit from a ground up restoration from the original film elements using modern hardware and software. The results, while later improved upon by the Network and ViaVision Blu-rays - notably in respect of the soundtracks which had a few issues on this DVD set - were night and day improvements over what had been available to buy previously. It would be no exaggeration to say that The Prisoner had never looked better, not even on its original transmission.

Programmes

• Actor Peter Wyngarde in The Pink Prisoner featurette

• Music editor Eric Mival in You Make Sure It Fits featurette

• The Don't Knock Yourself Out documentary had previously featured on Network's 40th Anniversary Edition of The Prisoner. This DVD release marked the first time that the documentary was made available separately.

• The standalone DVD of this documentary was a Network Exclusive, only available from their website.

• The two featurettes on this release were exclusive to this DVD and had not been included in the 40th anniversary complete series edition.

• The release date given above is in fact the date of Network's announcement - it is unclear what the actual release date was. The date at Network's website is 13 November 2007, but this is the date when the pre-order was added to the inventory, so not the release date.

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 2007 Network limited edition DVD set.

Notes

• A standard edition of the 2007 limited edition DVD set minus Andrew Pixley's The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide book.

• Whereas the limited edition presented the DVDs in two lavishly illustrated Digipaks, this cheaper reissue held them in two plastic Amaray-style cases with 14mm spines

Programmes

• None

• On Sunday 13 August 2006, a sell-out crowd at Portmeirion's Hercules Hall attended PM2006 - a celebration of Patrick McGoohan, Danger Man, The Prisoner and Portmeirion in aid of Ty Gobaith Children's Hospice in North Wales.

• The PM 2006 DVD comprised in-depth interviews with Robert Monks (Cameraman: The Prisoner - including an exclusive look at his collection of behind-the-scenes photographs), Jane Merrow (Actor: The Prisoner and Danger Man) and Robert Fairclough (TV Historian and Author) , plus specially composed Prisoneresque music and Portmeirion views.

• DVD-R format.

includes Checkmate

Episodes (non-ITC programmes in grey)

ITV Opening Night Preview • Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky • The Army Game: April Fool
Man About the House: While the Cat's Away • Robin of Sherwood: The Greatest Enemy
The Prisoner: Checkmate • Pathfinders in Space: Convoy to the Moon • The Larkins: Frightful Nightful
Sunday Night at the London Palladium: 28/11/1965 • The World at War: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
Callan: Let's Kill Everybody • Catweazle: The Sun in a Bottle • The Arthur Haynes Show: 8/12/1962
The Avengers: The Winged Avenger • Public Eye: My Life's My Own
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage • Crossroads: 26/10/1983 • On the Buses: The Strain
The Saint: The Contract • The Tommy Cooper Hour: 24/4/1974 • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: The Alien
Rainbow: 26/12/1975 • Pipkins: Cowboys • Doctor in the House: What Seems to be the Trouble?
The Power Game: The New Boy • 21: 9/5/1977 • Magpie: 26/11/1976 • Shut That Door!: 22/9/1972
Space: 1999: Breakaway • No Hiding Place: A Bird to Watch the Marbles
The Sweeney: Tomorrow Man • Tiswas: 30/8/1975 • Four Feather Falls: Horse Thieves
The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show: 7/9/1974 • Gideon's Way: The Wall
Tales of the Unexpected: Royal Jelly • The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Coming of Robin Hood
Nearest and Dearest: What Seems to be the Trouble? • Rising Damp: Black Magic
Mystery Bag: Lockhart Finds a Note • Upstairs Downstairs: Miss Forrest
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia • Ace of Wands: Peacock Pie - Episode One
Coronation Street: 18/5/1964 • Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Could You Recognise the Man Again?
Crane: A Cargo of Cornflour • Soldier Soldier: Stormy Weather • A Fine Romance: 14/2/1982
World in Action: The Chart Busters • The Professionals: Blind Run
Inspector Morse: Driven to Distraction • George and Mildred: Moving On
Jason King: To Russia with... Panache • The Main Chance: The Best Legal System in the World
Justice: A Nice Straightforward Treason • The Strange World of Gurney Slade: 22/10/1960
Our Man at St. Mark's: The Facts of Life • The Bill: The Short Straw • Man at the Top: I'll Do the Dirty Work
Whicker's World Aboard the Orient Express • Armchair Theatre: Afternoon of a Nymph

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.

• It is unclear whether Network made the DVD version available more widely after the Portmeirion event.

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

• None.

Notes

• This 50th anniversary reissue was aimed at mainstream purchasers shopping in supermarkets, being sold at a low price and featuring the episodes only, spread across five DVD discs.

• It was packaged in a standard width Amaray-style case with a five-disc capacity.

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 Blu-ray version (catalogue number 7958162) was issued simultaneously.

Programmes

Special Features

• None.

Notes

• On Sunday 21 January 2018, fifty years after the final episodes were shown, the iconic Elstree Studios in Borehamwood played host to a celebration of one of the most influential and celebrated TV series of all time – Patrick McGoohan’s cult masterpiece, The Prisoner.

• Series crew members Ian Rakoff, Tony Sloman and John S. Smith, directors John Hough, Alex Cox and Chris Rodley, Danger Man’s Terry Ackland-Snow, Big Finish’s Nicholas Briggs, actor Brian Gorman, studio Chairman Morris Bright MBE, and studio saviour Paul Welsh MBE, joined 150 fans of the series for an intimate celebration of a timeless classic.

• The 2-hour 50 Years of The Prisoner DVD presentation features highlights from all of the on-stage guest Q&A sessions and and even footage of a derelict MGM studios shot in the early 1970s.

• Organised by Quoit Media Limited and The Unmutual Website, profits from the event and this DVD are donated to Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospice in Conwy.

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 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.

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

• Many Happy Returns - a new short 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

• This reissue comprised DVD down-converts of 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.

Programmes

Special Features

• None.

Notes

• On Saturday 23 June 2018, the iconic Elstree Studios played host to Not A Number, a star-studded celebration of actor, writer and director Patrick McGoohan.

• Directors Alex Cox, John Hough and Alvin Rakoff, actors Jane Merrow and Vera Day, crew members Ian Rakoff and Tony Sloman, and journalist Howard Foy, joined host Rick Davy for a series of on-stage interviews regarding working with Patrick, and his legacy.

• The 105-minute Not A Number DVD presentation featured highlights from all on-stage Q&A sessions, plus recorded contributions from Susan Hampshire, Peter Sallis, Fenella Fielding, and Patrick's daughter Catherine.

• Organised by Quoit Media Limited and The Unmutual Website, profits from the event and this DVD are donated to Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospice in Conwy.

• This disc was produced on DVD-R media.

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 2019 Network DVD set.