Fall Out (The Prisoner)
"Fall Out" is the seventeenth and final episode of the allegorical British science fiction series The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as the incarcerated Number Six. The episode originally aired in the UK on ITV on 1 February 1968, and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on 21 September 1968.
"Fall Out" generated controversy when it was originally aired, because the last third of the episode was designed to be very obscure and be open to interpretation. The reception forced McGoohan, who wrote and directed the episode, to go into hiding for a period of time because he was hounded at his own home by baffled viewers demanding explanations. This episode omits the usual long opening and instead shows a recap of the penultimate episode, "Once Upon a Time". This is also the only episode in the series in which the show's main outdoors location, Portmeirion, is given a specific credit in the opening titles. This came about as a result of an agreement with Portmeirion's architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, that the location would not be revealed until the final episode.
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