Mindwarp (TV story)

Synopsis
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Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri - Nicola Bryant
 * The Valeyard - Michael Jayston
 * The Inquisitor - Lynda Bellingham
 * King Yrcanos - Brian Blessed
 * Sil - Nabil Shaban
 * Kiv - Christopher Ryan
 * Crozier - Patrick Ryecart
 * Matrona Kani - Alibe Parsons
 * Frax - Trevor Laird
 * The Lukoser - Thomas Branch
 * Tuza - Gordon Warnecke
 * Mentor - Richard Harvey
 * Possicar Delegate - Deep Roy (uncredited)

Crew

 * Assistant Floor Manager - Anna Price
 * Costumes - John Hearne
 * Designer - Andrew Howe-Davies
 * Incidental Music - Richard Hartley
 * Make-Up - Dorka Nieradzik
 * Producer - John Nathan-Turner
 * Production Assistant - Karen Jones
 * Production Associate - Angela Smith, June Collins
 * Script Editor - Eric Saward
 * Special Sounds - Dick Mills
 * Studio Lighting - Don Babbage
 * Studio Sound - Brian Clark
 * Theme Arrangement - Dominic Glynn
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Peter Wragg

Story Notes

 * Trevor Laird would later play Clive Jones, the father of Martha Jones. Laird is to date the only actor to play a recurring character in the BBC Wales version of the show, who also appeared in the original series.

Ratings
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Myths
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Location Filming
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * At the start of episode 4 (on asking whether Peri was Dead) the Doctor is specifically told that she isn't. So why at the end of that episode does everyone believe that Peri has died.
 * How does the Inquisitor know the events at the stories end - she's supposed to be imparsial, and is supposed to be watching this for the first time.

Continuity
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DVD and Video Releases
DVD release
 * Due for release in The Trial of a Time Lord boxset on the 29th September.

Video Releases

Released as Doctor Who: Mindwarp

Released:


 * UK October 1993 (Released with the other Trial of the Timelord stories in a Tardis-shaped tin with a random picture of one of the (then) seven Doctors on the base)
 * US October 1993 (Same as the UK release except packed in a cardboard box in honor of Doctor Who's 30th anniversary)
 * Australia October 1993

Novelisation

 * Main article: Mindwarp (novelisation)


 * Novelised by Philip Martin in 1989. Martin's adaptation is notorious for its epilogue which contradicts the concluding chapter of Trial of a Time-Lord by suggesting a comedic fate for Peri.