"Many Happy Returns" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series The Prisoner.

It was written by Anthony Skene and directed by Patrick McGoohan (using the pseudonym Joseph Serf).

He takes careful notes as to headings and times as best he can, but has an unfriendly encounter with gun-runners who steal his belongings and throw him in the sea.

Former colleagues "The Colonel" and "Thorpe" are not entirely convinced that Number Six has not defected and now returned as a double agent, but after verifying all the details of his escape and evasion story, they seem to be more reassured.

With the assistance of some military officers and a map, they determine the general vicinity of the Village ("coast of Morocco, southwest of Portugal and Spain"; "might be an island").

The sequence also features an additional shot of Rover on the beach where Number Two would have been shown, to maintain her anonymity until the end of the episode.

Some of the stock footage used during the aerial search for the Village is the same used to depict Shinda Shima in the eponymous Danger Man episode.

The aggregate viewing figures for the ITV regions that debuted the season in 1967 have been estimated at 10.3 million.