The Prismer

Earliest known title card for The Prismer.

The Prismer is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a gigantic prism, where his captors designate him as Number Six and try to find out why he abruptly ceased to split white light into its component colors.

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