The Mind of Evil

A machine that drains evil from the criminals' minds is the secret weapon in a plan to destroy the Doctor and doom world peace.  The Keller Machine is a rehabilitation tool that obliterates evil from the brain.  The Doctor believes an alien mind parasite has taken over the device.  

But what is the connection between his suspicions, the death of a Chinese delegate to the World Peace Conference, and a mission to dump a banned nerve gas missile at sea?  

As the nefarious scheme unfolds, the hand of the Master becomes evident - even as his assumed identity underscores the power of an evil mind!   Includes a bonus clip of the only surviving color footage of this historic 6 part adventure.

• Another Pertwee/Delgado classic, "The Mind of Evil" is the second story in an entire seasons worth of Doctor Who/Master storylines.

• At one point all 6 episodes of "The Mind of Evil" did exist in color as a videotaped off air recording by a U.S. fan.  The recordings were made in the 1970's.  However, due to the high cost of blank videotapes (and the assumption that the BBC would actually not destroy it's own color master tapes), the fan in question recorded a football game over this story.  A small 5 minute clip exists from episode 6 only because that portion wasn't recorded over by the football game.  Funny how fate can sometimes work.

• "The Mind of Evil" was another candidate for the Doctor Who Restoration Team to recolorize.  However, since no off air color recordings exist (apart from a few minutes at the beginning of episode 6), and because computer aided recolorization is extremely costly, the team was unable to recolorize this story.   However, they were able to use the procedure on the existing 5 minute clip of episode 6 to recolorize it.  It is included at the end of the video as a special bonus (an example can be seen on the bottom left side of the screen).

• Lots of familiar faces in this story.  Actor Neil McCarthy (who plays the criminal and experimental guinea pig Barnum) would return several years later for the Tom Baker story "The Power of Kroll."  

• The part of Mailer is played by William Marlowe.  Marlowe would also return during the Tom Baker era in the final story of season 12, "Revenge of the Cybermen."  

• Simon Lack (Professor Kettering) would return many years later, once again playing a pompous intellectual in the Davidson sleeper "Time-Flight."  In between these two roles, he appeared in the Tom Baker story "The Androids of Tara" as swordmaster Zadek

• Playing Dr. Summers is none other than Michael Sheard.  Sheard's first role in Doctor Who was in the 1966 Hartnell story "The Ark" as Rhos.  Sheard would again appear in Doctor Who, this time as Lawrence Scarman in the classic Tom Baker story "Pyramids of Mars."  He returned two years later for "The Invisible Enemy" as the doomed Lowe.  "Castrovalva" was his next appearance (this time as Mergrave).  One final appearance occurred in the 1988 Sylvester McCoy story "Remembrance of the Daleks."  He's a busy man...