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The Prisoner: Checkmate

Series 1, episode 9

Originally Aired On: Sunday, 10 December 1967

A game with villagers as chess pieces turns to intrigue when No. 6 plots an escape.

Cast

Image for Patrick McGoohanPatrick McGoohan...Number Six
Ronald Radd...Rook
Patrick Cargill...Number Two
Patricia Jessel...1st Psychiatrist
Victor Maddern...Bandmaster
Peter Wyngarde...Number Two
Basil Hoskins...Number Fourteen
Rosalie Crutchley...Queen
Norman Scace...Psychiatric Director
Derek Aylward...New Supervisor
George Coulouris...Man with the Stick
Angelo Muscat...The Butler
Bee Duffell...2nd Psychiatrist
Hilary Heath...Number Seventy-Three
Arthur Gross...Control Room Operator
Basil Dignam...Supervisor
Michael Danvers-Walker...Painter
Peter Swanwick...Supervisor
Victor Woolf...Shop Assistant
Denis Shaw...Shopkeeper
Victor Platt...Assistant Supervisor
Michael Segal...Laboratory Technician
Shivaun O'Casey...Nurse
Margo Andrew...Shop Kiosk Girl
Geoffrey Reed...Skipper
Susan Sheers...Female Code Expert
Jackie Cooper...1st Guardian
Terence Donovan...Sailor
Fred Haggerty...2nd Guardian
Joe Dunne...1st Tower Guard
Romo Gorrara...2nd Tower Guard
Eddie Powell...3rd Guardian
Image for Fenella FieldingFenella Fielding...Loudspeaker Announcer
George Leech...4th Guardian
Pat Gorman...Hospital Orderly
George Markstein...Man behind desk in title sequence