The Village (The Prisoner) Portmeirion. In the TV series "2Point4 Children", the episode "Seven Dials" sees one of the main characters Ben played by Gary Olson wake up in the Village at a "Prisoner" convention, as part of an ongoing and increasingly surreal vendetta plot with rival plumber Jake Klinger, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack. In the TV series "The Invisible Man" (2000), the episode "A Sense of Community" featured a village called "The Community" where troublesome spies were forced to 'retire' to. The Village is recreated in the late-1970s Edu-Ware computer game, "The Prisoner" and its sequel, "Prisoner 2". In both games, however, the
The Village (The Prisoner) to be directly answerable to unseen superiors, the shadowy "They" or "Number 1" pulling all the strings from behind the scenes, with direct contact via a red hotline phone. It appears that Number Two is continually being observed by hidden cameras, and indeed one of the Number Twos confides to Number Six in "The Chimes of Big Ben", "I'm as much of a prisoner here as you are. We're both lifers, my boy!" Whether Number Two literally means that he is a captive is not known for certain; several Number Twos are shown coming and going from the Village at