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The Mind Robber: Episode 5
Broadcast: Monday 22nd February 1999
7:30am-8:00am EST (12:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Emrys Jones

The Doctor engages in a battle with the Master, both summoning characters from fiction to fight each other. If the Doctor loses, he will be trapped in the Land of Fiction forever.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 19th February 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.spacecast.com/ and http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm
Early Monday at 3:30AM The Chase: The Death of Doctor Who episode 5 of 6
Monday at 7:30AM EST The Mind Robber episode 5 of 5
Tuesday through Friday at 7:30AM The Krotons episodes 1 through 4 of 4

In the early Monday broadcast, the Daleks create a 'perfect replica' of the 1st Doctor, programmed to kill the TARDIS crew. Later Monday, in the shortest regular episode of the entire series (18 minutes), the 2nd Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe fight a battle of wits with the Master of the Land of Fiction. For the rest of the week, they visit a planet where a peaceful people live life unaware that they are being used in a plot to restore power to an alien spacecraft. This spacecraft will destroy their civilization when it takes off. 1st story written by famous Who writer Robert Holmes, and first appearance by the popular Philip Madoc in the series.