sources recommend viewing this as the second episode, due to the references that Number Six makes in the episode of being "new here" and having arrived "quite recently". The music box theme heard throughout is a piece of stock music originally composed by Robert Farnon entitled "Drumdramatics No. 2". It was prominently used as the original melody for Josette du Pres' music box in the US gothic soap Dark Shadows, in which it first appeared in episode 236, first broadcast on 22 May 1967, some six months before "Dance of the Dead" aired. Although this is not the only episode in which a female Number Two is seen, it is the only one in which her voice is heard in the opening dialogue. It is the only instance where the fact that a woman is, or becomes, Number Two is not concealed until the climax of the episode. Unusually, Morris says "Information" only twice, rather than the customary three times. The small transistor radio that Number 6 listens to is a Juliette brand 7 transistor model. Broadcast The broadcast date of the episode varied in different ITV regions of the UK. The episode was first shown at 7:30pm on Friday 17 November 1967 on ATV Midlands and Grampian Television and on Friday 24 November on Anglia Television. On ATV London, whose broadcasts were also taken up by Southern Television, Westward Television and Tyne-Tees, the episode was broadcast on Sunday 26 November, two weeks after the previous episode "Many Happy Returns", displaced by the broadcast of the Royal Variety Performance on Sunday 19 November. The episode was broadcast on Thursday 30 November on Scottish Television, having been delayed by a week by the belated broadcast of "A. B. and C." the previous week, which had been delayed from its planned broadcast on 19 October by a power-cut. "Dance of the Dead" was shown on Thursday 7 December on Border Television, and on Friday 15 December on Granada Television in the North West. The aggregate viewing figures for the ITV regions that debuted the season in 1967 have been estimated at 9.1 million. In Northern Ireland the episode did not debut until Saturday 23 February 1968, and in Wales it was not broadcast until Wednesday 25 February 1970. References Sources – script of episode External links 1967 British television episodes The Prisoner episodes fr:Danse de mort (Le Prisonnier) it:La danza dei morti