The Prisoner (1967) - E10 - Hammer into Anvil

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The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, who stars as Number Six, a nameless British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position. The allegorical plotlines of the series contain elements of science fiction, psychological drama, and spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968, with exterior location filming primarily taking place in the Welsh seaside village of Portmeirion. Interiors were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 5 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968.

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"Hammer into Anvil" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series The Prisoner. Written by Roger Woddis and directed by Pat Jackson, it was the twelfth episode produced. It was the tenth episode to be broadcast in the UK on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 1 December 1967 and first aired in the United States on CBS on Saturday 31 August 1968.

The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features Patrick Cargill as Number Two. The central themes of this episode are insecurity, paranoia, and conspiracy thinking in a leader.

Cast
Patrick Cargill as Number Two
Victor Maddern as Band Master
Basil Hoskins as Number Fourteen
Norman Scace as Psychiatric director
Derek Aylward as New supervisor
Hilary Dwyer as Number Seventy-Three
Arthur Gross as Control room supervisor
Peter Swanwick as Supervisor
Victor Woolf as Shop assistant
Michael Segal as Laboratory technician
Margo Andrew as Shop kiosk girl
Susan Sheers as Female code expert
Jackie Cooper, Fred Haggerty, Eddie Powell, George Leech as Guardians