Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

The costumes used for the White Robots had been black and borne identification numbers on their chests when originally seen in the Out of the Unknown play The Prophet. They were repainted for The Mind Robber but were not in fact white; rather, three were yellow and one was grey. The reason for this was that pure white tended to be too bright for the monochrome cameras in use at the time, causing picture flaring. (For the same reason, the TARDIS control console was painted pale green rather than white.)

THE MIND ROBBERS - To escape a lava flow, the Doctor uses the "special emergency unit" which moves the TARDIS out of time and space - out of reality itself. However, a powerful mental force lures Zoe and Jamie out of the TARDIS forcing the Doctor to venture outside to find them. They independently find themselves in a great white void being hunted by white robots. The Doctor eventually reunites with them only to find themselves in a strange forest where fiction and fairy tales become reality. After some doing, the trio finally makes its way to a ruined building and into a maze of tunnels where they finally penetrate into the heart of the labyrinth which is the control room of a benign old man in skull cap and spectacles. He is the Master of the Land and has been controlling their fate with his computer. He tells them the computer is controlled by his brain and now it is time for him to retire. He wants the Doctor to take his place. Naturally, when Doctor Who refuses, a battle of wits follows with the Doctor call up champions from Earth's fiction to defeat the Master of the Land and his servants. Doctor Who discovers that in reality, it is the computer who controls the Master. Jamie and Zoe manage to overload the machine so they all can escape.

When molten lava threatens to engulf the TARDIS on planet Dulkis, the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) activates an emergency exit from time and space ... and escapes reality as well. Join the time travelers as they stumble through a disturbing Land of Fiction, where things exist only if you believe in them, and where you are as likely to meet Gulliver and Rapunzel as Medusa and Blackbeard. Will a force outside time and space turn Jamie and Zoe into fictional characters? And can the Doctor outwit the source of this terrifying creative power? Enjoy this witty twist on reality, now with digitally remastered picture and sound, plus special features galore. Subtitled.

Cast
The Doctor - Patrick Troughton
Jamie - Frazer Hines
Zoe - Wendy Padbury
A Stranger / Gulliver - Bernard Horsfall
Blackbeard - Gerry Wain
Child - Barbara Loft
Child - Sylvestra Le Tozel
Child - Timothy Horton
Child - Christopher Reynolds The surname of these child actors was spelt 'Reynolds' on the closing credits of Episode 2 and 'Reynalds' on the closing credits of Episode 5.
Child - David Reynolds The surname of these child actors was spelt 'Reynolds' on the closing credits of Episode 2 and 'Reynalds' on the closing credits of Episode 5.
Child - Martin Langley
Cyrano - David Cannon
D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot - John Greenwood
Jamie - Hamish Wilson
Karkus - Christopher Robbie
Princess Rapunzel - Christine Pirie- Christine Pirie also contributed, uncredited, a voice-over reading of an extract from Little Women in Episode 3.
Redcoat - Philip Ryan
Robot - John Atterbury
Robot - Ralph Carrigan
Robot - Bill Wiesener
Robot - Terry Wright
Soldier - Paul Alexander
Soldier - Ian Hines
Soldier - Richard Ireson
The Master - Emrys Jones
The Medusa - Sue Pulford
Production Credits
Director - David Maloney
Assistant Floor Manager - Edwina Verner
Costumes - Martin Baugh
Costumes - Susan Wheal
Designer - Evan Hercules
Fight Arranger - B H Barry
Fight Arranger - John Greenwood
Film Cameraman - Jimmy Court
Film Editor - Martyn Day
Make-Up - Sylvia James
Producer - Peter Bryant
Production Assistant - John Lopes
Script Editor - Derrick Sherwin
Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
Studio Lighting - Howard King
Studio Sound - John Holmes
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Jack Kine
Visual Effects - Bernard Wilkie
Writer - Derrick Sherwin Derrick Sherwin, as Doctor Who's script editor, received no credit for writing this episode, which thus became the only episode in the series' history to feature no writer's credit on screen.
Writer - Peter Ling