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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Mind Robber: Episode 1
Broadcast: Thursday 11th May 2000
11:30pm-12:00am AEST (13:30 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 5th May 2000:
UKTV Australia
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Sun 7AM, Late Sun 1AM AEST The War Machines all 4 eps
The 1st Doctor and Dodo arrive in 1966 London, where a computer capable of running all other computers on Earth is about to go online.
Mon-Wed 11:30PM AEST The Dominators eps 3 - 5 of 5
The 2nd Doctor's only chance to save Dulkis from the Dominators is to keep the Dominators squabbling with each other.
Thu-Fri 11:30PM AEST The Mind Robber eps 1 - 2 of 5
The aftereffects of the end of The Dominators endanger the TARDIS' life. To save the TARDIS, the Doctor takes everyone outside of reality, and into a land of insanity.