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the mind robber

story 45 : season 6 : serial UU : 5 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin
Designer: Evan Hercules

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot); Emrys Jones (The Master of the Land); Hamish Wilson (Jamie); John Atterbury (Robot); Ralph Carrigan (Robot); Bill Wiesener (Robot); Terry Wright (Robot); Bernard Horsfall (Gulliver); Barbara Loft (Child); Sylvestra Le Tozel (Child); Timothy Horton (Child); Chistopher Reynolds (Child); David Reynolds (Child); Martin Langley (Child); Paul Alexander (Soldier); Ian Hines (Soldier); Richard Ireson (Soldier); Philip Ryan (Redcoat); Christine Pirie (Princess Rapunzel); Sue Pulford (The Medusa); Christopher Robbie (Karkus); John Greenwood (DArtagnan and Sir Lancelot); David Cannon (Cyrano); Gerry Wain (Blackbeard);

crew information

Edwina Verner (Assistant Floor Manager); Martin Baugh (Costumes); Susan Wheal (Costumes); B H Barry (Fight Arranger); John Greenwood (Fight Arranger); Jimmy Court (Film Cameraman); Martyn Day (Film Editor); Sylvia James (Make-Up); John Lopes (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); John Holmes (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Jack Kine (Visual Effects); Bernard Wilkie (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 14 September 1968 at 17:20 21'27" 6.6mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode 2 21 September 1968 at 17:20 21'38" 6.5mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode 3 28 September 1968 at 17:20 19'29" 7.2mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode 4 5 October 1968 at 17:20 19'11" 7.3mil 16mm telerecording
5 Episode 5 12 October 1968 at 17:20 18'00" 6.7mil 35mm telerecording
16mm telerecording
  1. Episode 1
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  2. Episode 2
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  3. Episode 3
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. Episode 4
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  5. Episode 5
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Mind Robber
Written by: Peter Ling
Number 115 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1987 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 491 03682 5
16 April 1987 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 426 20286 4
1990 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20286 4

plot synopsis

To escape a lava rush from a volcano, the Doctor uses an emergency take-off, and the TARDIS lands in a white void. As they try to escape, the TARDIS disintegrates and the three travellers find they are now in the Land of Fiction. The Doctor has to defeat the Master of the Land, who is capable of creating characters out of nothing by simply thinking them into reality, by taking him on in the same way and calling up all the characters from literature he can think of. If he fails, the TARDIS crew will become absorbed into fiction, and the Doctor's mind will be absorbed...

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