Portmeirion Village Gwynedd North Wales "The Prisoner" 061013

Portmeirion Village Gwynedd North Wales "The Prisoner" 061013

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They filmed the Prisoner classic TV series starred Patrick Mc Goohan as a man who resigns from his top secret job and is held captive in the village, where he is known only as No 6. Exterior scenes were filmed in Portmeirion and the 17 episodes retain cult status.

The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. Although sold as a thriller in the mould of the previous series starring Mc Goohan, Danger Man (1960-68), the show's combination of 1960s counter cultural themes and surreal setting had a far-reaching effection science fiction/fantasy programming and on popular culture in general.

Number Six is monitored heavily by Number Two, the village administrator acting as an agent for an unseen "Number one". A variety of techniques are used by Number Two to try to extract information from Number Six.

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