Main menuPeter Ling, Doctor Who - The mind robber
Release details
| Title | Doctor 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: |  BBC DVD - BBCDVD 1358 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| 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 by | BBC Worldwide Ltd | ||||||||
| Page views: | 7470 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 256, rank in dvds is 32. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Other online shop | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Episode 1 | 21.20 | |||||||||
| A2 | Episode 2 | 21.37 | |||||||||
| A3 | Episode 3 | 19.28 | |||||||||
| A4 | Episode 4 | 19.08 | |||||||||
| A5 | Episode 5 | 18.12 | |||||||||
| A6 | Basil Brush segment | 10.25 | |||||||||
| A7 | The fact of fiction - The making of The Mind Robber | 34.57 | |||||||||
| A8 | Highlander - The Jamie McCrimmon story | 22.28 | |||||||||
| A9 | Photo Gallery | 6.52 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 2:54:27. | |||||||||||
All release pictures
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringPatrick 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 byPeter Ling Produced byPeter Bryant Directed byDavid Maloney SynopsisEscaping 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 ... BackgroundThe 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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