THE MIND ROBBER


 THE MIND ROBBER.   Written by Peter Ling.   5 episodes.
                    14th September - 12th October 1968.
                   
 COMPANIONS:- Jamie and Zoe.

   Activating the TARDIS emergency switch to escape the lava flow on Dulkis,
 the ship is taken out of Time and Space and arrives in the land of Fiction.
 Lured from the TARDIS by images of home, Jamie and Zoe are menaced by
 robots and are saved by the Doctor. They leave the TARDIS and are attacked
 by creatures from mythology including a Minotaur and Gorgon as well as
 other creations from fantasy such as clockwork soldiers and Unicorns.
 They also meet literary creations such as Lemuel Gulliver and Rapunzel.
   The world is ruled by the Master of the Land, a writer who was taken from
 Earth to control the fantasy world and who wants the Doctor to replace him
 so that he can return to his own time.
   In a battle of wits the Doctor defeats the Master using champions from
 Earth's fiction. Meanwhile, Zoe finds the true Master, a giant computer.
 The travellers manage to overload it and escape, taking the Master with
 them.
   This story is remarkable in that Jamie isn't played by Fraser Hines for
 much of the time but by another actor, Hamish Wilson. Fraser Hines became
 unwell part of the way through recording this story and so the writers
 came up with an ingenious solution to their problem. As one of the Doctors'
 initial tests, Jamie is frozen and his face taken away and placed on a
 board with other features. The Doctor has to rebuild Jamie's face and he
 gets it wrong. When Hines was fit to resume filming, the Doctor was again
 tested in this way and this time got it right!
   Part one of this story was written by Derrick Sherwin and the story is
 available from BBC Video. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BOTTOM LIVE script

                                  BOTTOM                                   ======                     by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall                                 Bottom Live                                 ===========                               Richie  Rik Mayall                                Eddie  Adrian Edmondson Introduction ------------ [Opening shot of theatre, with huge pictures of Richie and Eddie. Caption: "Live from the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton".] Vox Pop 1:  So I'm hoping that this is a lot ruder than the TV, because             they can get away with it. [Cut to Ade's dressing-room door. It opens to reveal a clothes rail, its only contents a brown jacket.] Vox Pop 2:  I just think they're ace, you know, absolutely excellent. [Cut to dressing-gown, pan across a pair of glasses and a revolver.] Vox Pop 3:  It couldn't be too rude, I mean that's what young people want. [Rik's dressing-room door.]
Read more

Evidence supporting quantum information processing in animals

              Evidence supporting quantum            information processing in animals                    James A. Donald                    1068 Fulton Av                    Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1505                    USA I show that quantum systems can rapidly solve some problems for which finite state machines require a non- polynomially large time. This class of problems is closely related to the class of problems that animals can solve rapidly and effortlessly, but are intractable for computers by all known algorithms. 1. Introduction      Animals, including very simple animals, can rapidly and effortlessly perceive objects, whereas computers take nonpolynomial time to do this by all known algorithms [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Our persistent inability to emulate perception gives reason to doubt the current paradigm and to look for an alternative paradigm.      Penrose[7] and many others [8, 9, 10] argue from practical considerations, Godel's theorem, and
Read more

ARMIES OF CHAOS

                          ARMIES OF CHAOS -      Before anyone proposes more gun control, he or she should know  about a simple, deadly weapon 4 times as powerful as Dirty Harry's  legendary .44 Magnum -- and at least twice as concealable -- that  _can't_ controlled.        This simple, deadly weapon can be made by anyone -- even a  child -- with unpowered hand tools in an hour's time using $5 worth  of materials, most of which are available around the house anyway.   In traditional form it's reusable an unlimited number of times, and  modern plastics have rendered its disposable version electronically  undetectable.  You can clear a room with such a weapon (more of a  hand-held directional grenade than a gun -- sort of a recycleable  Claymore mine) and it's just one of hundreds of similar time-proven  designs.        Complete instructions for building this simple, deadly weapon  could be given in half the space I'm using here and not require a  single illustrat
Read more