The Second Portmeirion Foundation - which cares for the estate of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect of the village which became the setting for the cult 1960s TV series, The Prisoner - owns many of the houses in the village of Croesor, which are let to local people.
But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.