Last Updated:

14/1/2007

 

     Last Addition:

15/2/2005

 

  Format:

  TV Episode

  Starring:

  Patrick Troughton as The Doctor

  Written by:

  Derrick Sherwin & Peter Ling

  Directed by:

  David Maloney

  Duration:

  99 mins

  Original Air Date:

  14/9/1968

  Reviewed by:

  Peter Davis

 

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?

 

 

  Submitted By:

  Peter Davis

  Review Submitted:

  15/2/2005

 

"Sausages! Man will become like a string of sausages - all the same!"

- The Doctor

 

‘The Mind Robber’ is one of my favourite Troughton episodes. It shows that the Doctor cannot always win, and that he doesn’t really know what Jamie looks like! “Oh yes… that is his nose, you can’t mistake it… oh no, I’ve got it wrong!” Now he looks like Hamish Wilson for an episode or two.

 

The script for "The Mind Robber" by Peter Ling and Derrick Sherwin is very good. Though I have to say that it is not perfect. Please note that episode 1 was re-written by Derrick Sherwin. The acting was about normal and the scenes with the children made me laugh!  The sets were not as good as I hoped they would be. 

 

Overall, this is a good episode. And I would recommend to anyone that they buy it on DVD when it comes out in March 2005.

 

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» Review by Peter Davis, Copyright 2005.

 

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