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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Mind Robber: Episode 1
Broadcast: Saturday 18th September 1999
7:30am-8:00am EDT (11:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Emrys Jones

The Doctor activates an emergency unit on board the TARDIS to escape destruction by a volcanic eruption.

Unfortunately, it moves them out of normal space and time to a deadly world where fantasy rules. The travelers find themselves lured out of the ship into a ghostly white void.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 17th September 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm and
http://www.spacecast.com/
Sat - Wed 7:30AM EDT The Mind Robber eps 1 - 5 of 5
Thu - Fri 7:30AM EDT The Krotons eps 1 - 2 of 4

Most of the week goes to The Mind Robber, where the Doctor and company find themselves outside of reality. The episodes really are as short as they seem - they aren't cut. As the week ends, the TARDIS lands on the planet of the Gonds, a race of people educated by a machine that takes the two brightest students of every graduating class - and kills them.