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* InsaneTrollLogic: The court's rationale for finding Kathy guilty. Although no crime was committed (the prisoner was under "protective custody"), Kathy is liable "because she didn't know that."



** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (the prisoner was under "protective custody"), Kathy is liable "because she didn't know that."
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Nice Hat is now dewicked


* NiceHat: The Kid's top hat.
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* FakeTown: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, TheWildWest town turns out to be a fake created by the Village leaders to trick Number 6]].
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* SpecialEditionTitle: The episode completely replaces Number Six's usual resignation and kidnapping with a Wild West equivalent.

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* SpecialEditionTitle: The episode completely replaces Number Six's usual resignation and kidnapping with a Wild West equivalent. (Some regions which were showing the original UK broadcast took issue with the lack of a title and superimposed a "The Prisoner" caption onto the start, against [=McGoohan=]'s wishes.)
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* VirtualReality: Not quite, but this is as close as the 1960s could get: lots of hallucinogenic drugs and paper cutouts.
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* JumpScare: [[spoiler: Number 14 does this to The Girl]].

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* JumpScare: [[spoiler: Number 14 8 does this to The Girl]].



* KubrickStare: The Kid/Number 14.

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* KubrickStare: The Kid/Number 14.8.
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* {{Blackmail}}: The Judge blackmails the "Sheriff" into staying to protect Cathy.

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* {{Blackmail}}: The Judge blackmails the "Sheriff" into staying to protect Cathy.Kathy.



* KangarooCourt: The Judge sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.
** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (the prisoner was under "protective custody"), Cathy is liable "because she didn't know that."

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* KangarooCourt: The Judge sentencing Cathy Kathy for helping a Prisoner escape.
** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (the prisoner was under "protective custody"), Cathy Kathy is liable "because she didn't know that."



* StalkerWithACrush: The Kid to Cathy.

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* StalkerWithACrush: The Kid to Cathy.Kathy.
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* {{Blackmail}}: The Judge blackmails the "Marshal" into staying to protect Cathy.

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* {{Blackmail}}: The Judge blackmails the "Marshal" "Sheriff" into staying to protect Cathy.
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correcting name; character is credited as the Judge, not mayor


* {{Blackmail}}: The Mayor blackmails the "Marshal" into staying to protect Cathy.

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* {{Blackmail}}: The Mayor Judge blackmails the "Marshal" into staying to protect Cathy.



* KangarooCourt: The Mayor sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.

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* KangarooCourt: The Mayor Judge sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.

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* AllJustADream

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* AllJustADreamAllJustADream: The whole episode is revealed to have been the result of a drug-induced hallucination.


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* OutOfGenreExperience: The series' plot is [[CowboyEpisode transplanted onto a Western setting]].
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* {{Cowboy Episode}}: This episode takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a {{Virtual Reality Interrogation}} created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs]].

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* {{Cowboy Episode}}: CowboyEpisode: This episode takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a {{Virtual Reality Interrogation}} created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs]].



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* TitleDropTitleDrop
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* {{Cowboy Episode}}: This episode takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a {{Virtual Reality Interrogation}} created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs]].
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* GeographicFlexibility: The Village apparently has a full mockup of a Wild West town, within walking distance, which previous episodes had never hinted at.

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* [[BannedInChina Banned in the USA]]: This episode was rejected for initial transmission in the US. There are conflicting reports as to why this was. Among the suggestions:
** It was just too much of a BizarroEpisode and executives were scared that audiences would be confused.
** US executives considered that the references to the use of hallucinogenic drugs to create Number Six's illusion of being in a Western setting were more explicit than usual and in breach of Standards and Practices rules about the depiction of drug use.
** US executives considered that the episode's explicitly pacifist message was too politically controversial during the Vietnam War.
** The climax to the Western plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun is fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: The episode completely replaces Number Six's usual resignation and kidnapping with a Wild West equivalent.
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* KangarooCourt: the Mayor sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.
** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (The prisoner was under "protective custody"), Cathy is liable "because she didn't know that."

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* KangarooCourt: the The Mayor sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.
** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (The (the prisoner was under "protective custody"), Cathy is liable "because she didn't know that."
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* AllJustADream



** The climax to the Western plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun is fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.

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** The climax to the Western plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun is fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.other.
* {{Blackmail}}: The Mayor blackmails the "Marshal" into staying to protect Cathy.
* JumpScare: [[spoiler: Number 14 does this to The Girl]].
* KangarooCourt: the Mayor sentencing Cathy for helping a Prisoner escape.
** InsaneTrollLogic: Although no crime was committed (The prisoner was under "protective custody"), Cathy is liable "because she didn't know that."
* KubrickStare: The Kid/Number 14.
* LostInCharacter: [[spoiler: In a rare variation, both Numbered agents ''return'' to their characters after the experiment is over.]]
* NiceHat: The Kid's top hat.
* PsychopathicManchild: The Kid. Naturally.
* QuickDraw
* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Naturally.
* StalkerWithACrush: The Kid to Cathy.
* TitleDrop
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** The climax to the Western plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.

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** The climax to the Western plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was is fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.
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** The climax to the Western plot in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid breached contemporary Standards and Practices rules by having killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired instead of cutting from one to the other.

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** The climax to the Western plot plot, in which Number Six's character shoots the Kid breached contemporary Standards and Practices rules by having Kid, has killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired instead of fired. Contemporary Standards and Practices rules decreed that such deaths should only be depicted by cutting from one to the other.
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** US executives considered that the references to the use of hallucinogenic drugs to create Number Six's illusion of being in a Western setting were more explicit than usual and in breach of Standards And Practices rules about the depiction of drug use.

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** US executives considered that the references to the use of hallucinogenic drugs to create Number Six's illusion of being in a Western setting were more explicit than usual and in breach of Standards And and Practices rules about the depiction of drug use.



** The climax to the Western plot in which Number Six's character shoots The Kid breached contemporary Standards And Practices rules by having killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired instead of cutting from one to the other.

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** The climax to the Western plot in which Number Six's character shoots The the Kid breached contemporary Standards And and Practices rules by having killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired instead of cutting from one to the other.
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** It was just too much of a BizzaroEpisode and executives were scared that audiences would be confused.

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** It was just too much of a BizzaroEpisode BizarroEpisode and executives were scared that audiences would be confused.
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A Wild West sheriff resigns and is kidnapped to another town, where a malevolent Judge tries to force him to drop his new pacifist principles.

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A Wild West sheriff resigns and is kidnapped to another town, where a malevolent Judge tries to force him to drop his new pacifist principles.principles.

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* [[BannedInChina Banned in the USA]]: This episode was rejected for initial transmission in the US. There are conflicting reports as to why this was. Among the suggestions:
** It was just too much of a BizzaroEpisode and executives were scared that audiences would be confused.
** US executives considered that the references to the use of hallucinogenic drugs to create Number Six's illusion of being in a Western setting were more explicit than usual and in breach of Standards And Practices rules about the depiction of drug use.
** US executives considered that the episode's explicitly pacifist message was too politically controversial during the Vietnam War.
** The climax to the Western plot in which Number Six's character shoots The Kid breached contemporary Standards And Practices rules by having killer and victim in the same shot when the gun was fired instead of cutting from one to the other.

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