Poi, riguardo all'ultimo episodio, bisogna ricordare che...
"There are many theories, some quite fanciful, as to why The Prisoner was made up of seventeen episodes - an extremely unlikely number in anyone's book. The simple truth is that, despite it's cult status today, the series bombed on it's first showing and the production, over budget and out of time, was cancelled. The cast and crew, with sixteen episodes filmed (but not necessarily completed), were told that they could make only one more episode to wrap up the loose ends - an episode unwritten and unscripted, yet due to go into production the following week!]