The Mind Runners was the third story in the seventh series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by John Dorney and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K9 Mark I.
It was the first in a story which concluded in the following instalment, The Demon Rises.
Publisher's summary
It used to be fun, Mind Running. Hopping into the heads of total strangers to see what they saw, feel what they felt. But one by one the Mind Runners are dying in a wave of suicides. And no-one on the planet Chaldera knows why.
The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive in the city that covers all of this dying world as it prepares to evacuate its people, and they immediately find themselves involved in a mystery. Who or what is responsible for the wave of death? Is it the motorised cult known as the Digitals? The enigmatic Mr Shift?
Or did all the victims attempt to run the Night Mind, the demonic consciousness of legend that is so twisted and evil that it drives mad all who touch it?
The TARDIS crew are about to find out.
Plot
Part one
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Part two
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- K9 - John Leeson
- Taraneh - Josette Simon
- Jacinta - Sarah Lark
- Raph - Alex Wyndham
- Krayl / Sternwood / Eldren - Robert Duncan
- Cloten / Shift - Andy Secombe
Worldbuilding
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Notes
- John Dorney was given a very open brief for the story, simply stipulating a four-part story featuring the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9. (BFX: The Mind Runners)
- Dorney drew inspiration from Blade Runner, The Big Sleep and others in the film noir genre. Nicholas Briggs imagined that the story's setting was, visually, very similar to Blade Runner. (BFX: The Mind Runners)
Continuity
- The Doctor encounters blue-skinned humanoids. (TV: The End of the World, The Pandorica Opens, Oxygen, World Enough and Time)
- The Doctor states that the only place where K9 would stand out less in the twentieth century than New York is the Edinburgh Festival. The Twelfth Doctor would later take credit for creating the Festival. (PROSE: Plague City)
External links
- Official The Mind Runners page at bigfinish.com