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Peter Ling, Doctor Who - The mind robber

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TitleDoctor Who - The mind robber
Artist(s):Peter Ling
Category:BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC DVD.jpg labelBBC DVD - BBCDVD 1358
Format:Disc DVD's
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1968
Genre:Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes:A0100583872-A911 17
Item deleted?Yes
Distributed / printed byBBC Worldwide Ltd
Page views:7480 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 256, rank in dvds is 32.
My rating:*****
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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
A1Episode 121.20
A2Episode 221.37
A3Episode 319.28
A4Episode 419.08
A5Episode 518.12
A6Basil Brush segment10.25
A7The fact of fiction - The making of The Mind Robber34.57
A8Highlander - The Jamie McCrimmon story22.28
A9Photo Gallery6.52
Total length of media 2:54:27.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts


Starring



Patrick Troughton

Frazer Hines

Hamish Wilson

Wendy Padbury

Emrys Jones

John Atterbury

Ralph Carrigan

Bill Wiesener

Terry Wright

Bernard Horsfall

Barbara Loft

Sylvestra La Tozel

Timothy Horton

Christopher Reynolds

David Reynolds

Martin Langley

Paul Alexander

Ian Hines

Richard Ireson

Philip Ryan

Christine Pirie

Sue Pulford

Christopher Robbie

John Greenwood

David Cannon

Gerry Wain


Written by



Peter Ling


Produced by



Peter Bryant


Directed by



David Maloney


Synopsis



Escaping from a volcanic eruption on the planet Dulkis, the Doctor is forced to use the TARDIS' Emergency Unit, which takes the craft out of normal time and space ... and out of reality itself! The time-travellers arrive in a mysterious world peopled by fictional characters - Gulliver and Rapunzel, D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot - but also by creatures from mankind's worst imaginings ...


Background



The high turnaround of episodes and stories in 1960s Doctor Who was an enormous strain on the cast and crew alike. The schedule called for an episode to be rehearsed and recorded on a weekly basis, with additional location filming occasionally thrown in for good measure. The fifth production block had begun in August 1967, with location filming for The Abominable Snowmen, and concluded in the middle of July 1968 with the recording of The Mind Robber. The punishing 11-month schedule of this recording block was enough to convince Patrick Troughton that his days in the TARDIS would soon be coming to an end ...

Behind the scenes, the programme was also going through a difficult time. The Dominators - the story that preceded The Mind Robber - had experienced numerous production problems which culminated in it losing one of its six planned episodes. The gap in the schedule was filled by script editor Derrick Sherwin penning an additional opening episode for Peter Ling's four-part The Mind Robber. Just as this problem was surmounted, a new one reared its head when Frazer Hinds succumbed to a bout of chickenpox that saw him unable to participate in the story's second episode. More re-writing had to be done ...

That The Mind Robber works so effectively as a story is quite an achievement - perhaps it does so because of the constraints that those making it had to work with, and not in spite of them ...

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