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The Mind of Evil

File:Mind of Evil - Doctor Who DVD

The Mind of Evil was a Third Doctor story that brought a radical change in the way United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was portrayed. Instead of being a primarily investigative body interested in alien or unexplained phenomena, here UNIT was mostly seen as a simple security force, guaranteeing the safety of international diplomats. In other words, the "United Nations" portion of their acronym was stressed over the "Intelligence Taskforce" bit — as would later happen in such stories as Day of the Daleks and The Time Warrior. Meanwhile, the main plot about the mind-control device was something writer Don Houghton intentionally included as an homage to A Clockwork Orange. Evil went badly over budget, thanks in no small part to one of Doctor Who's rare usages of a real helicopter in the concluding episode. An unimpressed Barry Letts therefore withdrew director Timothy Combe from his informal "director's rota", and Combe never worked on the programme again.

The women who gave Doctor Who back to us

David Tennant interviews Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

Jane Tranter was an important advocate for the return of Doctor Who to BBC One in the early 2000s. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that her only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day. Meanwhile, her "partner in crime", Julie Gardner is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.

Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon producer Verity Lambert.

The Quantel Paintbox was a graphics workstation that allowed Doctor Who to have a primitive form of colour grading in the 1980s.

John Cleese appeared in Doctor Who's highest rated televised story, City of Death, around the time of series 2 of Fawlty Towers.

The careers of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are significantly longer in audio than on television.

Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.

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However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in Doctor Who Magazine. The Shakespeare Code contains a good amount of material from A Groatsworth of Wit, and the notion of the Doctor absorbing the time vortex in order to spare a companion was explored in both The Parting of the Ways and The Flood.

Production history for 24.10

• 1970 - Studio filming for Terror of the Autons took place at BBC Television Centre 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
• 1975 - Studio filming for The Brain of Morbius took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
• 1984 - Location filming for The Mark of the Rani took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor)
• 2005 - Untitled shooting scripts for Doctor Who series 2, episodes 12 and 13, later titled Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, were issued. (DWMSE 14)
• 2012 - The Big Finish/AudioGO audio story Vengeance of the Stones was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 2017 - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Believe was recorded.
• 2018 - The Big Finish audio story The Monsters of Gokroth was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 2022 - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Oodunnit was recorded at the Soundhouse.

Things released on 24.10

• 1970 - Part eight of the TV Comic story Doctor Who and the Robot was published.
• 1996
  • Damaged Goods and Speed of Flight were published by Virgin Books.
  • DWM 245 was published by Marvel Comics.
• 2002 - The audio stories The Sandman and Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead were released by Big Finish Productions.
• 2012 - Love and War was released by Big Finish.
• 2013 - DWFC 5 was published by Eaglemoss Publications Ltd.
• 2014 - The interactive story featuring the Twelfth Doctor premiered at the Doctor Who Experience.
• 2015 - The Woman Who Lived premiered on BBC One.
• 2016 - The Robot Reveal premiered on CBBC.
• 2019 - The Target Storybook was published by BBC Books.

24.10 births and deaths

• 1921 - Actor Walter Henry was born.
• 1929 - Actor Clifford Rose was born.
• 1930 - Actor Brian Peck was born.
• 1939 - Actor Callen Angelo was born.
• 1958 - Actor Sarah Greene was born.
• 1971 - Actor Dervla Kirwan was born.
• 1975 - Actor Martin Boddey died.
• 1981 - Actor Jemima Rooper was born.
• 1988 - Actor Valerie Taylor died.
• 1994 - Actor Kit Young was born.
• 2005 - Writer Robert Sloman died.
• 2018 - Actor Laurence Kennedy died.
• 2021 - Actor Thapelo Maropefela died.