Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

30/1/71

24.39

6.1

2

Episode Two

6/2/71

24.31

8.8

3

Episode Three

13/2/71

24.30

7.5

4

Episode Four

20/2/71

24.40

7.4

5

Episode Five

27/2/71

23.34

7.6

6

Episode Six

6/3/71

24.38

7.3

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Eight

Jon Pertwee

Barry Letts

Terrance Dicks

Don Houghton

Timothy Combe

 

 

  

Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor)

Katy Manning - (Jo Grant)

 

  

Nicholas Courtney - (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)

Richard Franklin - (Captain Yates)

John Levene - (Sergeant Benton)

Roger Delgado - (The Master)

Pik-Sen Lim - (Captain Chin Lee)

Raymond Westwell - (Prison Governor)

Michael Sheard - (Dr. Summers)

Simon Lack - (Professor Kettering)

Neil McCarthy - (Barnham)

Fernanda Marlowe - (Corporal Bell)

Clive Scott - (Linwood)

Roy Purcell - (Chief Prison Officer Powers)

Eric Mason - (Senior Prison Officer Green)

Bill Matthews, Barry Wade, Dave Carter, Martin Gordon - (Prison Officers)

William Marlowe - (Mailer)

Haydn Jones - (Vosper)

Kristopher Kum - (Fu Peng)

Tommy Duggan - (Senator Alcott)

David Calderisi - (Charlie)

Patrick Godfrey - (Major Cosworth)

Johnny Barrs - (Fuller)

Matthew Walters - (Main Gates Prisoner)

 

  

The Doctor and Jo are investigating a revolutionary new way of treating psychotic criminals at Stangmoor Prison - a machine invented by one Professor Keller that literally sucks the evil out of a man's brain. But when the process is complete, what is left behind - a saint or a simpleton?

 

It transpires that Professor Keller is the Doctor's arch-enemy, the Master. The machine actually houses a deadly mind parasite that the Master has taken to Earth for his own evil ends. He intends to use it to sabotage the global peace conference UNIT is policing, thus bringing Earth to the brink of war. And when he takes over the prison and hijacks a missile that could wipe out half of Europe, it seems the cards are stacked firmly in his favour.

 

Meanwhile, the mind parasite is growing stronger all the time, killing anyone in its path by making them experience that which they fear the most. Can the Doctor defeat both the Master and the parasite while preventing the world's major powers from embarking on all-out nuclear war?

 

  

Working Title:

The Pandora Machine, The Pandora Box

 

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Click for larger image- The Mind of Evil, episodic format, Released May 1998; PAL (BBC Video cat.#6361).

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- The Mind of Evil by Terrance Dicks, Published 1985 - [Target no.96]

 

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