Saturday, 28 January 2017

The Mind Robber

(Series 6, Episodes 6-10)

Summary: Team TARDIS become trapped in a piece of experimental theatre based on The Times cryptic crossword and Gulliver’s travels.  Jamie falls foul of some temporary but disturbing plastic surgery and Zoe makes an audition tape for the part of Screaming Victim in a Hitchcock film.  Everything descends into the mother of all crossover fanfiction until Jamie and Zoe save the day through the tried and tested method of pressing all the buttons at random.

Watch it because: Jamie’s wee face when he hears the pipes of home.


Original Air Date: 14 September – 12 October 1968.
Doctor: Patrick Troughton.
Companions: Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines & Hamish Wilson (Because when one of your leads get chicken pox, naturally you re-cast him for one episode)) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury).
Writer: Peter Ling.
Director: David Maloney.
Producer: Peter Bryant.

Available on DVD? Yes.

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