Season 8 (1971)
The Mind of Evil
The Mind of Evil
Story Number: 56 (FFF)
Writer: Don Houghton
Director: Timothy Combe
Starring: : Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Richard Franklin, John Levene, Pik-Sen Lim, Michael Sheard, Raymond Westwell
No of Episodes: 6
First Broadcast: Sat 30 Jan 1971 - Sat 06 Mar 1971
Running Time: 146 minutes 42 seconds
Average Audience: 7.45 Million
The Doctor and Jo are investigating a revolutionary new way of treating psychotic criminals at Stangmoor Prison – a machine invented by one Professor Keller that literally sucks the evil out of a man’s brain. But when the process is complete, what is left behind – a saint or a simpleton? But it transpires that Professor Keller is the Doctor’s arch-enemy, The Master. The machine actually houses a deadly mind parasite that the Master has taken to Earth for his own evil ends. He intends to use it to sabotage the Global peace conference UNIT is policing, thus bringing the Earth to the brink of war. And when he takes over the prison and hijacks a nuclear missile, it seems the cards are stacked firmly in his favour. Meanwhile, the evil mind parasite is growing stronger all the time, killing anyone in its path by making them experience that which they fear the most. Can the Doctor defeat both the Master and the parasite whilst preventing the world’s major powers from embarking on all-out nuclear war?
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