‘The Mind Robber’ is an unconventional story. First
broadcast in 1968, it follows directly on from the previous serial ‘The
Dominators’ and opens with a flood of lava rapidly approaching the TARDIS. The
Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and companions Jamie and Zoe (Frazer Hines and Wendy
Padbury) are forced to dematerialise and take the TARDIS “out of reality” in
order to escape the flood of what appears to be melting cheese.
After landing ‘nowhere’ – an everlasting expanse of white –
the crew are lured out by visions of home, where they face a group of
robots. Despite the Doctor managing to
get everyone back into the TARDIS, he is unable to stop it exploding, the outer
shell shattering and the console spinning off into the distance.
From then on the story takes place in “The Land of Fiction”
which is ruled over by The Master (but not that one). Battling irritating
children and robot toy soldiers, the Doctor and his companions struggle not to
become a work of fiction – as this will mean that they are trapped forever.
Frazer Hines caught chicken box during filming of this
serial, which meant that he was replaced by Hamish Wilson in episode two
(explained by having the Doctor rearrange an image of Jamie’s face
incorrectly). The previous story had originally been conceived as a six parter,
but had been reduced to five parts, meaning that the ‘leftover’ part of the
story became the first episode of the previously four part ‘The Mind Robber’.
We will be watching ‘The Mind Robber’ on Saturday the 29th.
The Bar opens at 9.45pm GMT and we press play at 10.00pm GMT. Hope to see you
there.
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