Doctor Who: The Mind Robber [1968]

Dates of Original Broadcast: 14 September 1968 - 12 October 1968
Number of Episodes: 5
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Derrick Sherwin [uncredited - Episode 1 only], Peter Ling
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin

DIRECTION
Director: David Maloney

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Cameraman: Jimmy Court

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor:Martyn Day

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: John Holmes
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh [Episodes 1-4]; Susan Wheal [Episode 5]

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Jack Kine, Bernard Wilkie

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Evan Hercules

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: John Lopes
Assistant Floor Manager: Edwina Verner

STUNTS
Fight Arrangers: B.H. Barry, John Greenwood

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Emrys James [The Master]
John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesner, Terry Wright [robots]

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Emrys James [The Master]
Hamish Wilson [Jamie McCrimmon]
Bernard Horsfall [a stranger]
Timothy Horton, Martin Langley, Sylvestre Le Tozel, Barbara Loft, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds [children]
Paul Alexander, Ian Hines, Richard Ireson [soldiers]
Philip Ryan [redcoat]

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Emrys James [The Master]
Hamish Wilson [Jamie McCrimmon]
Bernard Horsfall [Lemuel Gulliver]
Timothy Horton, Martin Langley, Sylvestre Le Tozel, Barbara Loft, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds [children]
Paul Alexander, Ian Hines, Richard Ireson [soldiers]
Philip Ryan [redcoat]
Christine Pirie [Princess Rapunzel]
Sue Pulford [The Medusa]

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Emrys James [The Master]
John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesner, Terry Wright [robots]
Bernard Horsfall [Lemuel Gulliver]
Timothy Horton, Martin Langley, Sylvestre Le Tozel, Barbara Loft, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds [children]
Sue Pulford [The Medusa]
Christopher Robbie [Karkus]

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Emrys James [The Master]
John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesner, Terry Wright [robots]
Bernard Horsfall [Lemuel Gulliver]
Timothy Horton, Martin Langley, Sylvestre Le Tozel, Barbara Loft, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds [children]
Paul Alexander, Ian Hines, Richard Ireson [soldiers]
Christine Pirie [Princess Rapunzel]
Christopher Robbie [Karkus]
John Greenwood [D'Artagnan / Sir Lancelot]
David Cannon [Cyrano]
Gerry Wain [Blackbeard]

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Richard Ireson [minotaur]

The use of an emergency unit pulls the TARDIS out of normal space and time and it materialises in an epparently endless white void. The TARDIS is apparently destroyed and the crew are left stranded in a land of fiction, populated by characters from myths, legends and famous books. This bizarre world is rulled over by the Master Brain computer and his unwilling minion, an English writer known only as The Master, who wants to escape, leaving The Doctor to take his place.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1968
June
9: UK - location filming takes place
10: UK - model filming at The Puppet Theatre, London, UK
11: UK - model filming at The Puppet Theatre, London, UK
12: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 2, London, UK
21: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK
28: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK

July
5: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
12: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
19: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK

September
14: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast [on BBC1]
21: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast [on BBC1]
28: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast [on BBC1]

October
5: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast [on BBC1]
12: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast [on BBC1]

1992
January
31: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast [on BBC1]

February
7: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast [on BBC1]
14: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast [on BBC1]
21: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast [on BBC1]
28: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast [on BBC1]

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.149-151
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker]

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.155-159
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, computers, fantasy worlds, legends, minotaurs, myths, robots, time travel

Last Updated: 21 April, 2008