The Prisoner: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

AMC | Season Premiere Date: November 15, 2009

Starring: Lennie James, Ruth Wilson, James Caviezel

Summary: The "reinterpretation" of the cult British 1960s series is remade as a six-hour miniseries about a man who wakes up in The Village, where people are only identifed by a number.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense, Science Fiction

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Checkmate
Air Date: November 17, 2009
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S1:E5. Schizoid
Air Date: November 17, 2009
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S1:E4. Darling
Air Date: November 16, 2009

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Alessandra Stanley

Its a clever and engaging reinterpretation by Bill Gallagher, who shaped the script to contemporary tastes and sensibilities--notably, a postmodern fatigue with ideology and big thoughts. Read full review

Verne Gay

The Narrative knot is further jumbled by all the head games Two plays on him and everyone else. Six is on shifting sand, and so, too, will you be. Read full review

Ken Tucker

It's self-absorbed to the point of incoherence. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

This Prisoner is as much about Two as it is about Six and that the actor seems to be enjoying himself makes his scenes pleasant to watch even when they don't add up to much; there is a music to his readings even when the lines are obscure. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

McKellen, and the production design, and some smart use of Brian Wilson songs on the soundtrack (The Beach Boys' "I Know There's an Answer" is the miniseries' cheeky final tune) weren't enough to overcome my need for coherence. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

This reimagined version, which feels a bit old hat in a post-Matrix fantasy landscape, is more leaden, pretentious and solemn, a tone embodied by Caviezel’s brooding Six, who’s more dour than dashing. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Dismal and disoriented, under-plotted and over-allegorized, the six-hour Prisoner miniseries that debuts on AMC Sunday night is an exercise in full-tilt dramatic tedium that will appall anybody who remembers the original and bewilder anyone who doesn't: What was the big deal about that? Read full review

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AbrahamLB122

Feb 22, 2018

I think that most of the people rated bad this series because has differences with the original. But if you watch the 2009 series alone its enjoyable and had goods arguments and story. Sorry for bad grammar and English.

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AdamS

Dec 9, 2009

I got hypnotized while watching it. Incredible atmosphere and very good acting makes it really worth watching.

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Flytrap901

Nov 18, 2009

Has no one here ever done too many very good mushrooms; coming away from the experience feeling profoundly enlightened from seeing themselves inside out yet strangely relieved when the experience was over. It is an experience that changes the way you think about many things afterward.

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CraigW.

Nov 19, 2009

Watching this was going to the dentist .

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viewerviewing

Nov 22, 2009

The commercials were nice. The PalmPre girl. The Geico gecko. I don't know what all of that other stuff was. Something about a man running round aimlessly.

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JimC

Nov 18, 2009

Should even have been called by the same title. A very poor story.

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JaneWillDoIt

Nov 21, 2009

Quite possibly the worst remake ever made. None of the intelligence, wit, or sparkle from the 1968 one were present in this trite remake. Everything is slip-shod : the writing is a pretentious joke ; the directing is amateurish ; the pacing is as slow as molasses. I fell asleep during the Quite possibly the worst remake ever made. None of the intelligence, wit, or sparkle from the 1968 one were present in this trite remake. Everything is slip-shod : the writing is a pretentious joke ; the directing is amateurish ; the pacing is as slow as molasses. I fell asleep during the third hour ( but dragged myself through the rest ). Patrick McGoohan would never demean himself by presenting such tripe as this.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 15, 2009
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  S1:E6. Checkmate
  Air Date: November 17, 2009
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  S1:E5. Schizoid
  Air Date: November 17, 2009
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  S1:E4. Darling
  Air Date: November 16, 2009
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  S1:E2. Anvil
  Air Date: November 16, 2009
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  S1:E2. Harmony
  Air Date: November 15, 2009
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  S1:E1. Arrival
  Air Date: November 15, 2009