The General (The Prisoner)

"**The General**"
"The General"
The Prisoner episode
Episode no.	Series 1; Episode 6
Directed by	Peter Graham Scott
Written by	Lewis Greifer; (as Joshua Adam)
Production code	10
Original air date	3 November 1967
Guest appearances
	Colin Gordon as Number Two; John Castle as Number Twelve; Peter Howell as The Professor; Betty McDowall as The Professor's wife;
Episode chronology
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"The General" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, The Prisoner. It was written by "Joshua Adam" – a pseudonym for Lewis Greifer – and directed by Peter Graham Scott. It was the tenth to be produced and was the sixth episode to be broadcast in the UK on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 3 November 1967. It first aired in the United States on CBS on Saturday 13 July 1968.^[1]^[2]

The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features Colin Gordon as Number Two, in the second of his two appearances.^[3] The central themes of this episode are rote learning and indoctrination.

^ Pixley, Andrew (2007). The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide. Network. p. 197.
^ "The General". anorakzone.com. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ Davies, Steven Paul (2007). The Prisoner Handbook. Pan. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-230-53028-7.

[Pixley-1] Pixley, Andrew (2007). The Prisoner: A Complete Production Guide. Network. p. 197.

[2] "The General". anorakzone.com. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

[3] Davies, Steven Paul (2007). The Prisoner Handbook. Pan. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-230-53028-7.

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