"Fall Out" is the title of the controversial seventeenth and final episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan as Number Six. It originally aired in the UK on ITV on 1 February 1968 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on 21 September 1968."Fall Out" generated controversy when it was originally aired because the last third of the episode was designed to be very obscure, have no dialogue, and be open to interpretation. It forced McGoohan, who wrote and directed the episode, to go into hiding for a period of time because he was hounded at his own home by baffled viewers demanding explanations.This episode omits the usual long opening and instead shows a recap of the last episode, "Once Upon a Time". It is also the only episode in the series in which Portmeirion is given a specific credit in the opening titles, as a result of an agreement with Portmeirion's architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis that the location would... more