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trial of a time lord (mindwarp)

story 145 : season 23 : serial 7B : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Ron Jones
Writer: Philip Martin
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Andrew Howe-Davies

cast information

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

crew information

Anna Price (Assistant Floor Manager); John Hearne (Costumes); Richard Hartley (Incidental Music); Dorka Nieradzik (Make-Up); Karen Jones (Production Assistant); Angela Smith (Production Associate); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Brian Clark (Studio Sound); Dominic Glynn (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Peter Wragg (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part Five (Part One) 4 October 1986 at 17:45 24'42" 4.8mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Six (Part Two) 11 October 1986 at 17:45 24'45" 4.6mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Seven (Part Three) 18 October 1986 at 17:45 24'33" 5.1mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Eight (Part Four) 25 October 1986 at 17:45 24'44" 5.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part Five (Part One)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  2. Part Six (Part Two)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  3. Part Seven (Part Three)
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
    » A 72-edit exists also
  4. Part Eight (Part Four)
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Mindwarp
Written by: Philip Martin
Number 139 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
15 June 1989 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20335 6

plot synopsis

The Valeyard continues with his evidence, as he shows the events immediately prior to the Doctor's arrival at the space station. As the events unfold on the Matrix screen, the Doctor's memory slowly returns... On Sil's home planet, Thoros-Beta, a scientist has been employed to find a way of transferring the mind of the species head Mentor, Lord Kiv, into another body, but Crozier has yet to find the perfect host. Kiv's brain is expanding slowly, and the continual pain is stopping him from carrying out the all important commerce negotiations, with the inevitable profit that the Mentors thrive on. The Mentors also hold King Yrcanos, of the Krontep, on Thoros-Beta. The mighty warrior becomes infatuated with Peri, who becomes the ideal candidate to house Kiv's brain when both the King and Doctor's skulls prove unsatisfactory. The Doctor's behaviour becomes strange, as Time Lords start to manipulate him, and he is then taken out of time to leave Peri to her fate. Yrcanos is seen fighting his way towards Crozier's laboratory, where Kiv's transplant is now complete, and on seeing the dehumanised Peri; he seems to blast everyone in the room to death with a phaser. .

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