Continuity mistake: A sleeping Number 6 is being observed by the Village girl. While she watches him, his bed clothes mysteriously rearrange themselves. First they're disarrayed, then they're neatly tucked over him and his robe has moved to a different place on the bed. A few shots later, when he wakes up, his pillow disappears.
Jean G
20th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
20th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: During the scene in the bell tower, watch the beach in the background. In one take, the tide is in. In the next, it is suddenly at low tide, with much more of the beach exposed.
20th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 buys soap and candy from one of the Village vendors, he removes his payment card from his pocket three different times without ever having put it back.
19th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: During Number 6's visit to the Village Shop, the blue and yellow signs in the window switch places between takes, then return to their original positions.
19th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Just before the fight begins on the roadway, Number 6, in full shot, steps off the grass and onto the road. But the next close-up of him shows him on the grass again.
19th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Number 6 recites a classified ad in Spanish to the young woman at the newstand. His phrase contains eight words, but when she reads them back, there are nine.
17th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 is setting up his antenna, there's a woman on the beach in the background in a blue bathing suit. Between takes, her beach umbrella disappears.
17th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Number 6 is taking notes on the Village inhabitants, trying to determine which of them are prisoners and which are keepers. Next to the pond, he's observing Number 62. But on his notepad, he crosses out Number 8.
15th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
The General - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: At the end, the Professor and Number 12 fall dead on the ramp. Between shots, their positions change.
15th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
The General - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Number 6 holds the Penny Farthing pass in both hands in close-ups, but in all the master shots, he has it in just one hand.
15th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
A. B. and C. - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The length of A's cigarette varies considerably between takes. It's short in long shot, then gets suddenly longer in the following close-up.
15th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
A. B. and C. - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Number 14 has to push a button to activate the first tape she puts into the player. She then puts on the 'A' tape and it starts playing by itself, with no button pushed. When she puts in 'B,' though, she has to push the button again.
15th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
A. B. and C. - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 kicks out the grill, his socks are blue. In the next shot, though, the socks have turned brown.
14th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 is looking for a map in the Village store, the shopkeeper wears a badge with 19 on it. A few shots later, his number has mysteriously changed itself to 56.
14th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The unfortunate Village resident suffocated by Rover is wearing sunglasses that disappear between shots.
14th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The dwarf Butler climbs in to pilot the helicopter - but when the aircraft actually takes off, it's obvious that the pilot is a full-sized person.
13th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, Number 6 steps onto the elevator with a beard, but arrives on the lower level clean-shaven.
13th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The council members' signs keep changing during the "Dem Bones" sequence. "Entertainment" becomes "Anarchists" and several others switch places between cuts.
12th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Number 6 pushes the dead body out into the surf. In close-ups, the body is still very near the shore. But in long shots, it is much further out. (00:28:30)
12th Nov 2007
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 falls on the beach, the sand under him is wet. In the next shot, it is obviously dry.
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