THE PRISONER | Ep.11 - "It's Your Funeral" | REACTION 

No. 6 wanted to intervene because the Village would punish everyone if No. 2 were assassinated, as explained by the watchmaker's daughter. Of course, she didn't know that the Village authorities were behind the whole thing.

I do like how the Prisoner shows is more of Number 6 and his character and it is not always about escape.

There's something of a Doctor Who reunion with this episode, as Mark Eden, Derren Nesbitt and Martin Miller appeared together in the Marco Polo serial. Also, Annette Andre, who played the blonde woman, would later star in the cult 60s show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). This show itself was later rebooted and featured none other than Tom Baker in a supporting role. Both versions may well be of interest to you.

I keep forgetting this episode exists. Says it all really!

It's a flawed episode, but I have a soft spot for it because it's the one that got me into the series. 'The Prisoner' got a repeat showing in 1984, and while it was broadcast after my bedtime, a lenient child-sitter let me stay up to see most of the episode, and the inconveniently-timed return of my parents caused me to miss the climax. Skip to the end of the decade, when the series was released on VHS cassettes, and seeing the tapes in the shops jogged my memory and reminded me that I'd never seen how things worked out, so I bought the tape to get closure, and instead I got hooked.

The beautiful and very talented actress Annette Andre, made a wonderful guest appearance in this episode. For more of the delightful Annette Andre, please check out the original Randall & Hopkirk ( Deceased ) tv show.

I always love your Prisoner reactions, Marie-Clare. Every fan of The Prisoner has spent many an hour ( or in my case decades ) trying to work out the meaning of each episode, but we're all still at a loss. Suffice to say, our hero is either trying to escape from the village, or cause as much havoc as possible. :) And we also have to acknowledge that Patrick McGoohan was struggling with interference from the powers that be, to complete the episodes as he wanted and also to fulfil his commitments to other projects, including the Hollywood movie Ice Station Zebra.

Three members of the cast of this episode were all in Doctor Who: Marco Polo (from season one) - Number 2 played Tegana (Derren Nesbitt), Number 100 played Marco Polo (Mark Eden) and the watchmaker was Kublai Khan (Martin Miller).

I've always thought Derren Nesbitt (the younger Number 2) was cosplaying as Joe 90 here. ;P

Annette Andre great actress met loads of times got her autograph

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They should definitely make ‘Kosho’ (the trampoline sport) an Olympic sport

6 didn't want reprisals on the rest of The Village after the assassination

❤❤❤❤❤ love this

Great episode one of the best

I don't remember if you've watched UFO yet, but Derren Nesbitt appears in an episode or two.

A trouble Production indeed! McGoohan sacked Director, Robert Asher in humiliating circumstances early on and took over direction himself (Even though Asher still gets credit for Directing it) Annette Andre found `working` with McGoohan a terrible strain and almost quit, while Derren Nesbit too had artistic differences with McGoohan over his (Nesbitt`s) portrayal of No 2 for that episode. All this comes via the `Don`t Knock Yourself Out` Documentary on the Blue-Ray release. I state this in case @ghugsearch might think that I am making it up.

A great cast but it's not one I revisit very often.

A lot of fans regard this as the weakest episode and IMO they're right. The writer Michael Cramoy was a writer on The Saint, a great show with Roger Moore,( one to react to perhaps?) This seems like a plot from that show that didn't get made. The Saint arrives in a Italian village and uncovers a plot to murder the mayor. It just doesn't fit The Prisoner. No. 6 is such a problem with Young 2's plot to kill old 2, ordered by no.1, that he is drawn into it so he would warn Young 2, which was recorded, then edited to fool old 2 that 6 was ill and shouldn't be listened to. If 6 was a problem, just knock him out for a couple of days, end of problem. The idea that all previous 2s were temporary while old 2 was on leave is unlikely too. Derren Nesbitt was great though and Wanda Ventham, Benedict Cumberbatch' s mother, was also in it, nice to see. She is a main player in UFO, another future reaction possibly?😊

Very topical given what happened in the USA a couple of weeks ago, but yeah, it’s not a well regarded episode.

Like real politics knock off your rivals before they knock off you

This episode was a `filler` and McGoohan knew it was. As I stated before, in my comments on this series as watched by Marie - Clare; he envisioned a series of just Seven episodes originally. McGoohan and stated quite often over the years he just could not see how it could be stretched past Seven without `weakening` it. However, both CBS (In the United States) and ATV (Midlands region UK) were the ones putting up the Money and they (CBS in particular) needed more episodes to make the series `viable` from their commercial viewpoint. Hence you get some episodes comparatively weak- such as this. It often comes bottom or near bottom (Sharing that dubious distinction with the next but One episode to come) in Fan polls concerning `Prisoner` Episodes. I do hope that Marie-Clare can see why an episode such as this is not as strong- because given the choice McGoohan would have just had Seven `Good` episodes made as the full series.

They should definitely make ‘Kosho’ (the trampoline sport) an Olympic sport