The Prisoner (1967) - E12 - A Change of Mind

"A Change of Mind" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, The Prisoner. It was written by Roger Parkes and directed by Patrick McGoohan and ninth produced. It was the twelfth episode to be broadcast in the UK on ITV (ATV Midlands and Grampian) on Friday 15 December 1967 and first aired in the United States on CBS on Saturday 24 August 1968.

The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features John Sharp as Number Two. Themes explored include coerced confessions and political control via drugs; also conformity, methods of enforcing it, and the consequences of its rejection.

Cast
John Sharp as Number Two
Angela Browne as Number Eighty-Six
George Pravda as Doctor
Kathleen Breck as Number Forty-Two
Peter Swanwick as Supervisor
Thomas Heathcote as Lobo man
Bartlett Mullins as Committee chairman
Michael Miller as Number Ninety-Three
Joseph Cuby as Social group member
Michael Chow as Social group member
June Ellis as Number Forty-Eight
John Hamblin as Woodland man
Michael Billington as Woodland man
Fenella Fielding as Announcer (unseen)