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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
The Doctor and Jo visit [[Stangmoor Prison]] for a demonstration of the [[Keller Machine]] - a device claimed to be capable of extracting negative emotions from hardened criminals.
The Doctor and Jo visit [[Stangmoor Prison]] for a demonstration of the [[Keller Machine]] -a device claimed to be capable of extracting negative emotions from hardened criminals.
 
The Doctor's skepticism seems valid when a prisoner called Barnham collapses whilst undergoing the treatment.
 
The Brigadier is meanwhile in charge of security at a World Peace Conference, where documents go missing and the Chinese delegate dies under mysterious circumstances. Captain Yates is put in charge of another mission; transporting the banned "[[Thunderbolt]]" missile across the country to be dumped into the sea. The Doctor joins the Brigadier at the conference and they foil an attempt by the Chinese delegate's aide, Captain Chin Lee, to kill the American delegate. Lee is under the hypnotic control of the Master - otherwise known as Professor Emil Keller.
 
The Master uses the evil impulses stored within the Keller Machine - actually the container for an alien mind parasite - to cause unrest at Stangmoor. He then enlists the convicts' aid to hijack the Thunderbolt missile, planning to use it to blow up the peace conference and start World War Three.
 
Shielded by Barnham, now immune to the effects of the parasite, the Doctor transports the Keller Machine to a nearby airfield where the missile is being held.
 
Using the Machine to keep the Master occupied, the Doctor reconnects the missile's auto-destruct circuit and gets clear just before the Brigadier triggers it. The parasite is presumed destroyed in the resulting explosion, but the Master escapes in a van, running Barnham down in the process.


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 04:39, 29 November 2008


Synopsis

The Doctor and Jo visit Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration of the Keller Machine -a device claimed to be capable of extracting negative emotions from hardened criminals.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

  • When the Doctor is attacked by the Keller Machine he sees a War Machine, a Cyberman, a Dalek, Zarbi, a Sensorite, Koquillion, Slaar and a Silurian.
  • The Doctor can speak Mandarin and went on the Long March with Mao Tse-Tung and seems sympathetic towards him. He relives some of the fear that he felt when facing his many adversaries and his experience of seeing a world destroyed by flames. (This may well refer to Inferno.)
  • The Master's innermost fear appears as a giant, malignant version of the Doctor, filled with mocking laughter. Perhaps this is why the Master is cowering from the Doctor at the climax of "Last of the Time Lords"?
  • The Doctor says he once shared a cell in the Tower of London with Sir Walter Raleigh ("a very strange chap... Kept going on about this new vegetable he'd discovered").

Story Notes

  • This story had the working titles of The Pandora Machine, Man Hours, The Pandora Box, The Pandora's Box.
  • This is the first occurrence of subtitles on screen in Doctor Who, the only other time is in DW: The Curse of Fenric.

Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 6.1 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 8.8 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 7.5 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 7.4 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 7.3 million viewers

Myths

  • The Doctor makes a comment in episode one that suggests he supports capital punishment. (His comment is ironic and suggests precisely the opposite.)

Filming Locations

  • Location filming took place in Dover Castle, Dover, Kent.
  • Alland Grange, Manston, Kent
  • Pineham Road, Pineham, Kent
  • Cornwall Gardens Walk, London
  • Cornwall Gardens, London
  • Archer's Court Road, Whitfield, Kent
  • RAF Swingate, Dover, Kent
  • Commonwealth Institute, Kensington, London
  • BBC Television Centre (Studio 3 & 6), Shepherd's Bush, London

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

to be added

Continuity

  • The Doctor alludes to Inferno "I saw an entire world consumed by fire".
  • The Master's greatest fear (of the Doctor looming over him) becomes real in Last of the Time Lords.
  • UNIT runs the second World Peace Conference in Day of the Daleks.

DVD, Video and Other Releases

Released On VHS

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Novelisation

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Main article: The Mind of Evil (novelisation)

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