History Characters / ThePrisoner1967

--> ''This is your world now. '''I''' am your world now.''

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Guy Doleman, Creator/PeterWyngarde, Patrick Cargill, Mary Morris, Colin Gordon, Derren Nesbitt and Eric Portman]]

* IdenticalStranger: To The Kid from ''Living in Harmony''. Unlike with Patrick Cargill's two roles on the show, there's no reason that Number 48 and The Kid (Number 8 outside of the simulation) should be related in any way, let alone be the same person [[spoiler: Number 8 dies at the end of ''Living in Harmony'']].

* CrypticConversation: While pretty much all of his dialogue in "Fall Out" applies, the prime example is this back and forth between him and the President.

* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Two, actually. First the mask on an ape, then the face of Number Six.]]

* AntiHero: Type III, though his rough nature is mainly due to never being quite sure who to trust.

* NiceHat: Wears one.

%%* NiceHat

* BatmanGrabsAGun: He consistently avoids using firearms, to the extent that in "Living in Harmony" he plays the part of a sheriff who refuses to carry a gun. As things come to a head in "Fall Out", this line is crossed.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: At Patrick McGoohan's insistence due to his own intense dislike of them, he almost never uses a gun.

* FriendToAllChildren: He's seen babysitting two children in "The Girl Who Was Death". [[PetTheDog Awwww!]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling", his memory of the Village is wiped completely. He gets it back by the end of the episode without much explanation.

* NoNameGiven: His real name (although many fans assume he's John Drake, the character [=McGoohan=] played in his previous series, ''Series/DangerMan'' (aka ''Secret Agent''); in fact, he's not even called "Number Six" in the scripts, except by other characters, only "P" or "Prisoner".
** In "Many Happy Returns", [[spoiler:Number 6 called himself "Peter Smith", but this could be an assumed/false name. It's also an obvious variation on his German code name, "Schmidt".]]
** In "The Girl Who Was Death", a line of dialogue by a boxing referee is often misheard as announcing [=McGoohan=]'s character by the name "Mr. Drake". However, officially published scripts and closed captioning reveal the scripted line is "Mr. X."

** Number 2 makes Number 6 relive moments of his life in "Once Upon a Time". Apparently at some point he was either involved in or caused a motor vehicle accident that resulted in loss of life.

* SweetTooth: In "Arrival" and "Free for All", Number Two mentions that he was told to drop sugar from his diet on medical advice, prompting him to put sugar in his tea anyway as an act of defiance.

* TranquilFury: What happens when he reaches his RageBreakingPoint; most notably during "Hammer Into Anvil", in which he systematically destroys the psyche of a No. 2 who had driven a woman to suicide.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He dies in the end of "Once Upon A Time", but the Villagers mysteriously bring him back in "Fall Out".]]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The shave and haircut that they give him prior to [[spoiler:his resurrection]]. It was added in because [=McKern=] had gotten a trim prior to being called back for another episode - that's because some eight months passed between the filming of "Once Upon a Time" and "Fall Out".

Hosts a sham "election" in the Village in "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE4FreeForAll Free For All]]", in which he convinces Number Six to actually run for the "office" of Number Two -- and brainwashes him repeatedly into acting like a slick electoral candidate, much to the disgust of Number Six. Also provides No.6 with a chauffeur/assistant called Number 58, who (despite her apparent lack of English skills) is a [[spoiler: fairly obvious [[TheMole Mole]]]].

From "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE10HammerIntoAnvil Hammer Into Anvil]]". A particularly ruthless Village official, who has no trouble committing psychological torture or ''physically'' threatening recalcitrant Villagers -- he obviously feels irritated by the standing order that Number Six must not be "damaged". He is the only Number Two who could be categorized as stereotypically "evil."

From "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE12AChangeOfMind A Change Of Mind]]".

* VillainousBreakdown: He acts pretty anxious throughout all of "A, B, and C", until he finally loses it in the end.

The oldest No.2, who seems to have been with the Village the longest; we actually witness his official "retirement" in "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE11ItsYourFuneral It's Your Funeral]]". Claims that all the other Number Twos were actually interim replacements for him, although that could just be what his superiors told him -- they're not above lying to a No. 2, and (as he realizes, much to his horror) they're not the sort of people who fritter money away on things like pensions for retirees who just won't die. One of the only Number Twos other than [=McKern=] to receive a sympathetic portrayal.

From "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE8DanceOfTheDead Dance of the Dead]]". She seems to prefer spies rather than hidden surveillance, although she uses both.

* NoNameGiven: Being that this is The Village, it's actually, "No Number Given". He is the only regular denizen of the village that wears no number.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He is always called "Supervisor", but never by his number.

* NotSoStoic: The one time his robotic facade breaks is in ''Hammer into Anvil,'' when that episode's Number Two directly accuses him of treason and fires him; he's ''hurt''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It was initially meant to be a single entity, and had what was intended to be an on-camera "death". Though they'd already filmed a scene with him in "Once Upon a Time", the intent was always to reshoot it. When the show got cancelled, they no longer had the budget to do so, and so it lends the appearance of Rover being a type of weapon that inexplicably disappeared for several episodes.

An odd, menacing character who shows up in the western-themed episode, ''Living in Harmony''. As noted above, played by the same actor who later plays Number 48 in "Fall Out" and a photographer in "The Girl Who Was Death".

* CoolCar: The Lotus Seven, even though it's rarely used outside the TitleSequence.

* SuddenlyShouting

* YouLookFamiliar: In ''[[Recap/ThePrisonerE7ManyHappyReturns Many Happy Returns]]'', Patrick Cargill played Thorpe, one of Number Six's old colleagues from his pre-Village days as a government agent. There is nothing to suggest that Thorpe and ''Hammer into Anvil's'' Number Two are the same person. But there also isn't anything to suggest that they can't be.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: Due to Patrick McGoohan's insistence dislike of them, he almost never uses a gun.

* GeniusBruiser: Both a thinker ''and'' a fighter.

* NotSoDifferent: He freely admits to being as much of a prisoner as Number Six, saying they're both "lifers".

!!'''Leo [=McKern=]'''

* GoKartingWithBowser: Though he never goes so far as to make any deep friendships with his fellow prisoners as they could just as easily round on him as their jailers, he does deign to join in on community activities and occasionally avails himself of public recreational centers to pass the time if nothing else.