The Mind of Evil (TV story)

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
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
 * Jo Grant - Katy Manning
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * The Master - Roger Delgado
 * Sergeant Benton - John Levene
 * Captain Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
 * Corporal Bell - Fernanda Marlowe
 * Professor Kettering - Simon Lack
 * Captain Chin Lee - Pik Sen Lim
 * Dr. Summers - Michael Sheard
 * Prison Governor - Raymond Westwell
 * Barnham - Neil McCarthy
 * Linwood - Clive Scott
 * Chief Prison Officer Powers - Roy Purcell
 * Senior Prison Officer Green - Eric Mason
 * Mailer - William Marlowe
 * Vosper - Hayden Jones
 * Fu Peng - Kristopher Kum
 * Charlie - Tommy Duggan
 * Senator Alcott - David Calderisi
 * Major Cosworth - Patrick Godfrey
 * Fuller - Johnny Barrs
 * Prison Officers - Bill Matthews, Barry Wade, Dave Carter, Martin Gordon
 * Main Gate Prisoner - Matthew Walters

Crew

 * Action / Stuntwork - HAVOC
 * Assistant Floor Manager - Sue Hedden
 * Costumes - Bobi Bartlett
 * Designer - Ray London
 * Film Cameraman - Fred Hamilton, Max Samett
 * Film Editor - Howard Billingham
 * Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
 * Make-Up - Jan Harrison
 * Producer - Barry Letts
 * Production Assistant - John Griffiths
 * Script Editor - Terrance Dicks
 * Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
 * Studio Lighting - Eric Monk
 * Studio Sound - Chick Anthony
 * Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Jim Ward

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

Novelisation

 * Main article: The Mind of Evil (novelisation)


 * The Mind of Evil was novelised as The Mind of Evil by Terrance Dicks in 1985 by Target Books.