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 Doctor Who: The Mind of
Evil [1971]
Date(s) of Broadcast:
30 January 1971 - 6 March 1971
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry
Letts
SCRIPT
Script: Don Houghton
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks
DIRECTION
Director: Timothy Combe
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Eric Monk
Film Camera: Fred Hamilton, Max Samett
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Howard Billingham
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
SOUND
Studio Sound: Chick Anthony
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jan Harrison
Costumes: Bobi Bartlett
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Jim Ward
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Ray London
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: John
Griffiths
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Hedden
STUNTS
Action: HAVOC
CAST
Jon Pertwee [The Doctor]
Katy Manning [Jo Grant]
Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]
Richard Franklin [Captain Mike Yates]
Neil McCarthy [George Barnham]
Fernanda Marlowe [Corporal Bell]
Michael Sheard [Dr Roland Summers]
Raymond Westell [Prison Governor Major Victor Camford]
Pik-Sen Lim [Captain Chin-Lee]
Roy Purcell [Chief Prison Officer Powers]
Eric Mason [Senior Prison Officer Green]
Simon Lack [Professor Charles Kettering]
Clive Scott [Arthur Linwood]
Roger Delgado [The Master]
John Levene [Sergeant Benton]
William Marlowe [Harry Mailer]
Hadyn Jones [Lennie Vosper]
Kristopher Kum [Fu Peng]
Tommy Duggan [Senator Alcott]
Dave Carter, Martin Gordon, Bill Matthews, Barry Wade [prison officers]
David Calerisi [Charlie]
Patrick Godfrey [Major Cosworth]
Johnny Barrs [Fuller]
Matthew Walters [main gate prisoner]
Paul Blomley [police superintendent - uncredited]
Stuart Fell, Charles Marriott [photographers - uncredited]
Francis Batsoni [General Cheng Teik - uncredited]
Francis Williams [The Master's chauffeur - uncredited]
Nick Hobbs [American aide - uncredited]
Billy Horrigan [UNIT Corporal - uncredited]
Laurence Harrington [voices on telephone (UNIT transport division)
- uncredited]
Paul Tann [Chinese aide - uncredited]
Jim Delaney [passerby - uncredited]
Maureen Race [female student - uncredited]
Richard Atherton [police inspector - uncredited]
Richard Atherton, Les Clark, Les Conrad, Tony Jenkins, Gordon Stoppard,
Leslie Weeks [prison officers - uncredited]
Richard Atherton, Denis Balcombe, George Ballentine, Francis Batsoni,
Paul Blomley, Marc Boyle, Michael Carter, Alan Chuntz, Les Clark,
Les Conrad, Billy Horrigan, Nad Hood, Leonard Kingston, Roger Marsden,
Alistair Mcfarlane, Valentino Musetti, Mike Stevens, Cy Town, Wolfgang
Van Jergen, Desmond Verlini, Matthew Walters, Phillip Webb [prisoners
/ audience - uncredited]
Charles Finch, Charles Pickess, Cy Town [medical officers - uncredited]
Denis Balcombe, Stuart Fell, Nick Hobbs, Charles Marriott, Roger Marsden
[UNIT soldiers and staff - uncredited]
Laurie Ayres, Denis Balcombe, Robert Bald, Bob Blaine, Frank Bennett,
Michael Carter, Derek Chafer, Johnny Clump, Timothy Combe, Max Diamond,
Pat Donohue, Ian Elliott, Gary Gregory, PG Heath, Tony Jenkins, Ricky
Lancing, Derek Martin, Roy Scammell, Mike Stevens, Terry Walsh And
Lance Bombadier R Berkley, Gunner K Davenport, Bombadier A Graham,
Bombadier Barry
Hall, Sergeant Herridge, Bombadier J Lamb, Sergeant D Talbot, Bombadier
R Thompson [extras - uncredited]
SUMMARY
A demonstration of the Keller Machine, which
is meant to extract negative thoughts from inmates at Strangmoor prison
goes horribly wrong. After witnessing this, The Doctor then joins
the Brigadier at a World Peace Conference where one of the delegates
attempts murder. Meanwhile a Thunderbolt missile is being transported
away for destruction. As events spiral out of control, The Master's
plan is revealed.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Three plotlines which converge nicely at the end keep this six parter
moving along well without the usual recourse to chases. Some good location
work adds to the action and Delgado, who doesn't have to share the villain's
role, is particularly excellent.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1971
January
30: UK - Episode One television broadcast [on BBC1]
February
6: UK - Episode Two television broadcast [on BBC1]
13: UK - Episode Three television broadcast [on BBC1]
20: UK - Episode Four television broadcast [on BBC1]
27: UK - Episode Five television broadcast [on BBC1]
March
6: UK - Episode Six television broadcast [on BBC1]
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Pandora Machine
- working title
Pandora's Box - working title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.201-205
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
aliens, military, mind control, missiles
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
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