The Mind Robber: Episode 4

Episode aired Oct 5, 1968
TV-PGTV-PG
20m

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7.7/10

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The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.

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7.7/10

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Director
- David Maloney
Writers
- Peter Ling(by)
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Donald B. Wilson(uncredited)
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Trivia
At 13:24 into the episode, the controller says that he wrote for "The Ensign" magazine for the character Captain Jack Harkaway - 5,000 words a week for 25 years. Zoe (who is supposed to be super-smart) says, "That's over half a million words!". Actually, the total comes out to over six million words (6,500,000).

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Featured in The Fact of Fiction (2005)

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4/10

It's bonkers.

I haven't got a clue what's going on. Lots of talk of The Master, lots of people jumping around, screaming. The Doctor finally comes face to face with the person pulling the strings.

This episode is only nineteen minutes long, so aside from being perhaps the shortest episode of all time, it must also be the craziest single episode of all time, half the time, I didn't have the foggiest idea what was going on, it's all very surreal, and off the wall.

There's a bit of a cheat going on here, the cliffhanger used at the end of part two, was recycled and used to conclude the previous episode, we begin with The Doctor and Zoe taking on Medusa.

I'm not a fan of this one at all I'm sorry to say. 4/10

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