The Prisoner Episode 6 “The General” Trailer
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. The General is the sixth episode of the television series The Prisoner. The central themes of this episode are rote learning and indoctrination.
Number 6 discovers a new scheme — Speedlearn — that permits a person to learn a university level course in history in three minutes, taught by an individual known as “The Professor”, who is backed by another entity known as “The General”. Number 6 finds that Speedlearn could possibly be used for mind control as well as mass education. A disaffected member of the Speedlearn committee helps Number 6 infiltrate the project to try and bring the General down.
“The General” turns out to be a sophisticated (for the 1960s) computer system. However, Number 6 is able to destroy this computer, and Number 2’s plans, with some simple logical epistemological trickery: Number 6 feeds it the question “why?”
The Prisoner Episode 6 “The General” Trailer
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