Q 01/05

Which Welsh resort village provided the exterior setting of the Village in The Prisoner?

A) Llandudno

B) Portmeirion

C) Aberystwyth

D) Betws-y-Coed

Answer · why

B) Portmeirion

Portmeirion was kept out of the credits until the finale, at the request of the architect who built it.

Q 02/05

Rover, the white guardian that hunts escapees in The Prisoner, was made on set from which object?

A) A parachute canopy

B) An inflatable dinghy

C) A giant beach ball

D) A weather balloon

Answer · why

D) A weather balloon

A weather balloon replaced the planned Rover, a wheeled machine topped with a flashing light that did not work properly on location.

Q 03/05

Patrick McGoohan reprised Number Six from The Prisoner in a 2000 episode of which animated comedy?

A) The Simpsons

B) King of the Hill

C) Family Guy

D) South Park

Answer · why

A) The Simpsons

The Simpsons cast Homer as a fellow inmate of a mysterious island, where he escapes on a raft that Number Six had spent more than thirty years buildin...

Q 04/05

Writers of which later television drama said Rover from The Prisoner inspired its Smoke Monster?

A) Fringe

B) Heroes

C) Lost

D) Alias

Answer · why

C) Lost

Lost is one of the series The Guardian said could not have existed without The Prisoner, which it called the Citizen Kane of British TV.

Q 05/05

Which film role did Patrick McGoohan refuse on moral grounds before he created The Prisoner?

A) Harry Palmer

B) James Bond

C) Sherlock Holmes

D) Philip Marlowe

Answer · why

B) James Bond

James Bond was the part he was considered for in the first 007 film, and the success of those films is credited with reviving his own spy show.