"A Change of Mind" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, The Prisoner.

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.

[3] Themes explored include coerced confessions and political control via drugs; also conformity, methods of enforcing it, and the consequences of its rejection.

Two young toughs arrive and accuse him of being anti-social for not using the community gym and a fight ensues in which Number Six prevails.

In an anteroom to the Council Chamber, a Villager is seen desperately confessing to being "inadequate and anti-social"; he is applauded by others for this admission.

Number Six again appears before the committee and is told he will be labelled for "Instant Social Conversion" if he does not fall into line.

There he is strapped to a table and the Social Conversion process is explained to a Village television audience by Number Eighty-six, who is the chief technician in charge.

The aggregate viewing figures for the ITV regions that debuted the season in 1967 have been estimated at 7.5 million.