"A Change of Mind" | |
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The Prisoner episode | |
Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 12 |
Directed by | Patrick McGoohan |
Written by | Roger Parkes |
Production code | 9 |
Original air date | 15 December 1967 |
Guest appearances | |
"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.[1][2]
The episode stars Patrick McGoohan as Number Six and features as Number Two, John Sharp.[3] Themes explored include coerced confessions and political control via drugs; also conformity, methods of enforcing it, and the consequences of its rejection.