'Instant Social Conversion' is the process by which hostile
Villagers have their attitudes changed to fit in with the rest.
Number
6 is threatened with this
medical procedure if he doesn't conform. Its Number 2's plan to
extract Number 6's resignation secret from him.
Number 86 is used to trick
him into joining a band of 'unmutuals' who are cured due to treatment
which involves the use of drugs and ultrasonic bombardment of
selected areas of the brain. Number 6 is forcefully taken to the
hospital and supposedly undergoes the treatment. It turns out to be
all a charade and he is in fact being drugged to supress his
agressiveness.
Before long Number 6 begins to suspect and decides to turn the tables on his captors..................
Written by Roger Parkes
Produced by David Tomblin
Directed by Patrick McGoohan (under the pseudonym of Joseph Serf)
Stars
Patrick McGoohan - Number Six
John Sharpe - Number Two
Angela Browne - Number 86
There is very little Portmeirion footage contained in this episode, instead it relies heavily on mock-ups of Village buildings and backgrounds in the studio at Borehamwood.
Michael Billington appears in a fight scene with Patrick McGoohan and later went on to star in Gerry Anderson's 'UFO' as Colonel Foster.