Quotes
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"Well, because, well, we're nowhere. It's as simple as that." ~ The Second Doctor
"Jamie, Zoe, concentrate only on my words. Think of me. Think of the Tardis. They are the only real things here. Everything else is unreality. It is only in your minds." ~ The Second Doctor
"Don't you understand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction. Unicorns, minotaur, Gulliver's travels, they're all alive here." ~ The Second Doctor
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Trivia
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Hamish Wilson played Jamie in Episode 2 and 3 when Frazer Hines contracted chicken pox.
The White Robots that close in on Jamie and Zoe in the void outside the TARDIS were previously used in an episode of the science-fiction television series Out of the Unknown, "The Prophet", originally transmitted 1 January 1967.
Episode 1 is the only episode in the series' history to have no writer's credit, either on-screen or in Radio Times.
This story was planned as a four-part serial, but was increased to five after The Dominators was reduced from six to five episodes. As a result, the first four episodes were only between nineteen and twenty-two minutes in length and Episode 5 was the shortest Doctor Who episode ever at just over eighteen minutes. For this to happen, the first episode was cobbled together by the production team, making Peter Ling very unhappy.
The character Gulliver speaks only lines written for him by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.
The Master of the Land should not be confused with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, who first appeared in TV: Terror of the Autons, more than two years after this story was first aired.
There are elements in this story that some fans have interpreted as meaning the events in The Mind Robber are all a dream. For example, the changing of Jamie's face may be a manifestation of the Doctor's regeneration trauma. Zoe also recognizes candles, despite not knowing what they are in The Space Pirates. Significantly, despite the Master of the Land being with the TARDIS crew at the end of this story, his absence is not remarked upon at the start of the following story, The Invasion. In fact, none of the events of this story are mentioned or referenced at the start of the following story – indicating that the TARDIS crew may not even remember them properly (thus explaining Zoe's lack of knowledge about candles later).
This story is available for online streaming from Amazon and Netflix.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
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