"Dance of the Dead" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series The Prisoner.

It was the eighth episode to be broadcast in the UK, on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 17 November 1967, and first aired in the United States on CBS on Saturday 27 July 1968.

He spends the night on the beach and, upon awakening, discovers a dead man's body washed ashore.

When Number Six tries to reach a high point to listen to it, at first he gets only static and a muffled, seemingly foreign-language channel.

Dutton says he has told his captors all he knows, but they believe he is withholding further secrets, and they will soon be employing harsher methods to extract the information from him.

The Carnival becomes a costumed ball and dance in which everyone has an elaborate identity except Number Six, who is simply given his own dinner jacket.

Later, he enters a morgue and finds that the body floated out to sea has been discovered, retrieved and brought there.

He then flees the place and is pursued through the corridors of the town hall by enraged Villagers, but manages to escape into a back room.

As the damaged teletype resumes operating, Number Two then laughs and wryly observes, "Then how very uncomfortable for you, old chap!

The aggregate viewing figures for the ITV regions that debuted the season in 1967 have been estimated at 9.1 million.