The Village (The Prisoner) - in Other Media

In Other Media

In The Simpsons episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", Homer Simpson is imprisoned in a location called "The Island" after accidentally uncovering a secret flu shot scheme. He escapes by stealing Number Six's raft (which he had spent thirty years building) and uses a spork to pop the Rover sent to capture him. Patrick McGoohan guest-starred in the episode, reprising the role of Six. It is revealed in this episode that the reason for Six's imprisonment was his invention of the bottomless peanut bag.

In Alan Moore's crossover comic, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, The Village is stated as having been built by the Thought Police to house enemies of Big Brother. After the death of Big Brother and the collapse of the Ingsoc regime, MI5 continues to operate The Village. In the comic, The Village is specifically stated as being located in Portmeirion.

In the TV series The Invisible Man, 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 came, The Prisoner and its sequel, Prisoner 2. In both games, however, the location is renamed "The Island".

In the 2009 remake, the Village is located in the middle of a desert, instead of by the sea, though it was later revealed that this version of The Village does not exist in reality, only in a virtual reality computer environment. The area that was used for filming was Swakopmund, Namibia.

Iron Maiden wrote a song that appeared on their 1982 release of The Number of the Beast called "The Prisoner". The group later wrote a second composition that appeared on the Powerslave album called "Back in The Village".

In the second volume of the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, Xavier Mauméjean's short story "Be Seeing You!" describes the origin of The Village. It was established in 1912 by Winston Churchill, the original Number 1, to interrogate his enemies, including Sherlock Holmes.

Although not acknowledged as being inspired by The Village, the fictional town of Storybrooke in the 2011 TV series Once Upon a Time features some similarities to The Village, most notably the fact its residents are (usually) prevented from physically leaving the town. Elements of The Village are also present within Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy of novels, as it depicts a society where many citizens are effectively imprisoned in Village-like areas called Districts, and the Hunger Games Arena features extensive surveillance and technology intended to prevent competitors from leaving the field of battle.