Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

14/9/68

21.27

6.6

2

Episode Two

21/9/68

21.39

6.5

3

Episode Three

28/9/68

19.29

7.2

4

Episode Four

5/10/68

19.14

7.3

5

Episode Five

12/10/68

18.00

6.7

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writers:

Director:

Six

Patrick Troughton

Peter Bryant

Derrick Sherwin

Derrick Sherwin,

Peter Ling

David Maloney

 

 

  

Patrick Troughton - (The Doctor)

Frazer Hines - (Jamie)

Wendy Padbury - (Zoe)

 

  

Hamish Wilson - (Jamie)

Emrys Jones - (The Master)

John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener, Terry Wright - (Robots)

Bernard Horsfall - (A Stranger / Gulliver)

Barbara Loft, Sylvestra Le Tozel, Timothy Horton, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds, Martin Langley - (Children)

Paul Alexander, Ian Hines, Richard Ireson - (Soldiers)

Philip Ryan - (Redcoat)

Christine Pirie - (Princess Rapunzel)

Sue Pulford - (Medusa)

Christopher Robbie - (Karkus)

John Greenwood - (D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot)

David Cannon - (Cyrano)

Gerry Wain - (Blackbeard)

 

  

The TARDIS is in the path of molten lava and the Doctor is forced to activate the emergency unit to move it out of the time space dimension and out of reality!

 

When the TARDIS crew land 'nowhere' they stumble into a world where fiction appears as reality and where things exist only when men believe in them. It is a world peopled by White Robots and a race of fictional characters and monsters, by Gulliver and Rapunzel, by D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot, and worse, by the Unicorn, the Minotaur and the Medusa.

 

As they explore the forest of words and the maze in this Land of Fiction new horrors await the Doctor and his companions round each corner... will Zoe and Jamie be turned into fictional characters? Is the Doctor at the mercy of a higher intelligence or force outside time and space as he knows it? Can he outwit the brain that is the source of this terrifying creative power?

 

  

Working Title:

The Fact of Fiction.

 

Things to look for:

  • Coming Soon

 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 5 Episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

Click for larger image- UK release May1990. The Mind Robber (BBCV cat.#4352)

 

 

Click for larger image- The Mind Robber, episodic format, Released March 2005; REGION 2 (BBCDVD cat.#1358).

 

£15.99

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- The Mind Robber by Peter Ling, Published 1987 - [Target no.115]

- The Mind Robber by Peter Ling, Published 1990 - [Target no.115]

 

 

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