Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

1968 · 100 min · ★ 8.0 · Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void where they are menaced by white robots. Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped — until the ship explodes. They find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel, the Karkus, and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver.

Directed by David Maloney · Written by Derrick Sherwin

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Cast

Patrick Troughton The Doctor
Frazer Hines Jamie McCrimmon
Hamish Wilson Jamie McCrimmon
Wendy Padbury Zoe Heriot
Emrys Jones The Master
Bernard Horsfall Gulliver
Christopher Robbie Karkus
Sue Pulford The Medusa
Christine Pirie Princess Rapunzel
Philip Ryan Redcoat
John Greenwood D'Artagnan/Sir Lancelot
David Cannon Cyrano

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