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The Mind Robber
The Mind Robber is the second serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in five weekly parts from 14 September to 12 October 1968.
The serial is set outside of time and space in a world where fictional characters and mythological creatures including Medusa, the Minotaur and the Unicorn exist. In the serial, the English fiction writer "the Master" (played by Emrys Jones, and unrelated to the recurring villain "the Master"), aware of his own advancing age, tries to recruit the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) to take over his role as the creative power in this realm.
After defeating the Dominators and starting off a volcanic eruption, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe find themselves and the TARDIS in the path of a lava flow. Upon trying to dematerialise out of the way, the TARDIS experiences a fault in the fluid link. At the insistence of Zoe and Jamie, the Doctor uses an emergency unit that takes the TARDIS into another dimension outside of reality. The TARDIS rematerialises into a spacial void. Both Jamie and Zoe are tempted out into the void by images of their homes being displayed on the TARDIS scanner. After a confrontation with a group of robots, the TARDIS explodes and splinters, separating the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe.
After experiencing a series of curious encounters, the Doctor manages to find Jamie and Zoe. He soon deduces that they are in a world filled with fictional and mythological characters. A gun destroys Jamie's face, with the Doctor being forced to put his face back together. However, the first time he attempts this, he does it incorrectly, with Jamie remaining like this for a period of time. Travelling through the location, the Doctor encounters several people, such as Lemuel Gulliver, and Captain Karkus, a fictional superhero from Zoe's time. The Doctor and Zoe are threatened by a Unicorn, which is defeated as the Doctor reminds Zoe that it isn't real. After Jamie's true face is restored, the team are once again split up as Jamie travels alone, ending up in Rapunzel's castle, while the Doctor and Zoe face Medusa.
They finally meet a person called "The Master" who seems to be in charge. It turns out that he is in fact an Earth man abducted and brought to the land of fiction in order to provide creative energies for the unseen aliens who are really in charge. Everything that the Doctor has experienced was a series of tests to prepare him for his role as replacement. The aliens' plan is to control everyone on Earth and bring them to the land of fiction, leaving the Earth itself empty for easy colonisation.
The Doctor rescues Jamie and Zoe from the giant book in which they're trapped, and they return to the control room to free "the Master". Jamie and Zoe overload the computer and it explodes, with all 4 leaving just in time. The TARDIS reforms and the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe are able to escape.
Working titles for this story included Man Power, Another World and The Fact of Fiction. The Mind Robber was originally composed of four episodes, but the preceding serial, The Dominators, was reduced from six to five episodes. This resulted in a sparse first episode being written, as they had to use the limited budget of the replaced episode. This stretching of the story also resulted in the first four episodes only running between 19 and 22 minutes in length, and Episode 5 being the shortest Doctor Who episode ever at slightly over 18 minutes.
During production, actor Frazer Hines contracted chickenpox and was hurriedly replaced by Hamish Wilson for episode 2. This also meant that a scene had to quickly be written to explain Jamie's sudden change in appearance. On both occasions before Jamie gets turned into a cut-out, he shouts, "creag an tuire". Frazer Hines joked on the DVD commentary that this is Scottish Gaelic for "vodka and tonic". It is close to the MacLaren clan's slogan "Creag an tuirc" ("the rock of the boar").
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The Mind Robber
The Mind Robber is the second serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in five weekly parts from 14 September to 12 October 1968.
The serial is set outside of time and space in a world where fictional characters and mythological creatures including Medusa, the Minotaur and the Unicorn exist. In the serial, the English fiction writer "the Master" (played by Emrys Jones, and unrelated to the recurring villain "the Master"), aware of his own advancing age, tries to recruit the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) to take over his role as the creative power in this realm.
After defeating the Dominators and starting off a volcanic eruption, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe find themselves and the TARDIS in the path of a lava flow. Upon trying to dematerialise out of the way, the TARDIS experiences a fault in the fluid link. At the insistence of Zoe and Jamie, the Doctor uses an emergency unit that takes the TARDIS into another dimension outside of reality. The TARDIS rematerialises into a spacial void. Both Jamie and Zoe are tempted out into the void by images of their homes being displayed on the TARDIS scanner. After a confrontation with a group of robots, the TARDIS explodes and splinters, separating the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe.
After experiencing a series of curious encounters, the Doctor manages to find Jamie and Zoe. He soon deduces that they are in a world filled with fictional and mythological characters. A gun destroys Jamie's face, with the Doctor being forced to put his face back together. However, the first time he attempts this, he does it incorrectly, with Jamie remaining like this for a period of time. Travelling through the location, the Doctor encounters several people, such as Lemuel Gulliver, and Captain Karkus, a fictional superhero from Zoe's time. The Doctor and Zoe are threatened by a Unicorn, which is defeated as the Doctor reminds Zoe that it isn't real. After Jamie's true face is restored, the team are once again split up as Jamie travels alone, ending up in Rapunzel's castle, while the Doctor and Zoe face Medusa.
They finally meet a person called "The Master" who seems to be in charge. It turns out that he is in fact an Earth man abducted and brought to the land of fiction in order to provide creative energies for the unseen aliens who are really in charge. Everything that the Doctor has experienced was a series of tests to prepare him for his role as replacement. The aliens' plan is to control everyone on Earth and bring them to the land of fiction, leaving the Earth itself empty for easy colonisation.
The Doctor rescues Jamie and Zoe from the giant book in which they're trapped, and they return to the control room to free "the Master". Jamie and Zoe overload the computer and it explodes, with all 4 leaving just in time. The TARDIS reforms and the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe are able to escape.
Working titles for this story included Man Power, Another World and The Fact of Fiction. The Mind Robber was originally composed of four episodes, but the preceding serial, The Dominators, was reduced from six to five episodes. This resulted in a sparse first episode being written, as they had to use the limited budget of the replaced episode. This stretching of the story also resulted in the first four episodes only running between 19 and 22 minutes in length, and Episode 5 being the shortest Doctor Who episode ever at slightly over 18 minutes.
During production, actor Frazer Hines contracted chickenpox and was hurriedly replaced by Hamish Wilson for episode 2. This also meant that a scene had to quickly be written to explain Jamie's sudden change in appearance. On both occasions before Jamie gets turned into a cut-out, he shouts, "creag an tuire". Frazer Hines joked on the DVD commentary that this is Scottish Gaelic for "vodka and tonic". It is close to the MacLaren clan's slogan "Creag an tuirc" ("the rock of the boar").