The Prisoner (Season 1)

The Prisoner (1967–1968) is a British science-fiction series you can watch online on iFILM — created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, seventeen episodes that broke virtually every convention of the spy genre.

A British intelligence agent resigns without explanation. He wakes up in the Village — a place that looks pleasant and functions as a prison. Everyone has a number instead of a name. He is Number Six. The Village's controllers want to know why he quit; he refuses to tell them. What follows is not a linear escape story but a psychological battle that shifts rules from episode to episode.

Made in 1967 at the height of Cold War anxiety, the show was baffling and polarising to audiences at the time — and has only grown in stature since. McGoohan was asking something genuinely uncomfortable: whether freedom is possible inside systems designed to look like freedom. It has influenced everything from Lost to Black Mirror. Stream every episode of The Prisoner (1967) online on iFILM.