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A [[remake]], in the form of a six-hour miniseries with Jim "The Passionate Christ" Caviezel as Number 6 and Sir Ian "The White Wizard" McKellen as Number 2, ran in November 2009. This was not a direct remake, as characterization, atmosphere, and ending were almost entirely different. YMMV as to whether the miniseries worked taken on its own terms, and on whether it deserved to keep the name.

 

 

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* [[Actor Shared Background]]: One of the only pieces of information Number Six voluntarily gives the Village is his date and exact time of birth (19 March 1928, 3:15 a.m.) -- which coincides exactly with McGoohan's.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Most of the No. 2s

* [[All Just a Dream]]: The resolution of two of the later episodes, where the majority of the episode is revealed to be a simulated dream or a fictional story being improvised by a character. And then there's the episode where Number Two decides to invade Number Six's dreams...

** "Once Upon a Time" includes a line of dialogue (confirmed by examination of the script) in which No. 2 (pretending to be a teacher) says to 6 "Meet me in the morning break." A common mishearing of the line is "Meet me in the morning Drake."

** Confusing things further, in the late 1960s three original novels were published based upon the series. The first two of these: "The Prisoner" by Thomas Disch and "Number Two" by David [[Mc Daniel]], explicitly refer to No. 6 by the name Drake.

* [[Ontological Mystery]]: Where exactly ''is'' the Village? Who runs it? Does it matter?

* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: Number Six does this to Number Two in "Hammer Into Anvil."

 

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