The Prisoner (1967) - E13 - Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

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"Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, The Prisoner. It was written by Vincent Tilsley and directed by Pat Jackson and was the fourteenth produced. It was the thirteenth episode to be broadcast in the UK on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 22 December 1967 and first aired in the United States on CBS on Saturday 3 August 1968.

The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features as Number Two, Clifford Evans.

Produced while Patrick McGoohan was in America filming Ice Station Zebra, the writers worked around McGoohan's absence by having Number Six's mind implanted in the body of another man (Nigel Stock), who is then sent out of the Village to help capture a scientist. As a result, McGoohan appears in the episode for only a couple of minutes.

The episode title, and the background music heard throughout it, derive from the American song "The Ballad of High Noon" – also called "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin'" – introduced in the 1952 movie High Noon.

Cast
Zena Walker as Janet Portland
Clifford Evans as Number Two
Nigel Stock as The Colonel
Angelo Muscat as The Butler
Hugo Schuster as Professor Jacob Seltzman
John Wentworth as Sir Charles Portland
James Bree as Villiers
Lloyd Lamble as Stapleton
Patrick Jordan as Danvers
Lockwood West as Camera shop manager
Fredric Abbott as Potter
Gertan Klauber as Cafe waiter
Henry Longhurst as Old guest
John Nolan as Young guest