History Recap / DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil

'''Production code:''' FFF

Written by Don Houghton. This six-episode serial first aired from January 30 to March 6, 1971.

* ManChild: Barnham after his encounter with the Keller Machine.

* PrisonEpisode: A significant portion of the plot takes place in Stangmoor prison, loosely based on the real life HMP Manchester/Strangeways.

* StupidGood: Barnham, since he's had all his negative impulses extracted. When he sees the Master has been incapacitated by the Keller Machine, he doesn't know any better than to stop and help him.

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor laughs menacingly, and everyone has to deal with an evil rotten potato.[[note]]Not those [[Characters/DoctorWhoSontarans ones.]][[/note]]

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor laughs menacingly, and everyone has to deal with an evil rotten potato.

-> ''Do you think for once in your life you could manage to arrive '''before''' the nick of time?''

The one where the Doctor laughs menacingly, and everyone has to deal with an evil rotten potato.

The one where the Doctor laughs menacingly.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the car ride to the prison the Master holds a small radio while "The Devil's Triangle" by Music/KingCrimson plays. He switches it off, it's gone. That's right; The Master has his own ''portable evil music''.

** At one point, the Master listens to "The Devil's Triangle" by Music/KingCrimson.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The Master listens to "The Devil's Triangle" by Music/KingCrimson, fitting his villainous nature. The song itself is based on Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War", further tying in with the Master's plans.

Written by Don Houghton. This serial first aired January 30-March 6, 1971.

* SarcasmBlind: Benton takes the Brigadier's suggestion that he's too delicate and should lie down after reporting that he fainted seriously.

* CreatorCameo: The director, Timothy Combe, appears several times as a criminal mook during the action sequences when UNIT storms the prison. This is due to the TroubledProduction that required an unplanned extra half day of shooting and no actors were available.

* TimeSkip: Inferred; early in the story it's mentioned that "Professor Keller" installed his machine nearly a year prior, meaning that unless the Master was either enacting one ''hell'' of a XanatosGambit in case he should happen to get stuck on Earth, or he did some TimeyWimeyBall stuff after restoring his TARDIS to working order at the end of the story, the better part of a year has passed since the events of "Terror of the Autons".

* TheXOfY

* TheMaster

The Master uses the evil impulses stored in his machine (which is actually just a case for an alien parasite) to cause unrest at Stangmoor and then convinces the convicts to hijack the Thunderbolt missile, which he plans to aim at the peace conference and start WorldWarThree.

* WorldWarThree: The Master's plan. It's ultimately stopped, luckily.

The Doctor and Jo visit Stangmoor Prison, where a new machine is to be demonstrated by Professor Emil Keller. The Keller Machine will apparently extract all negative thoughts and impulses from even the most hardened criminals, but when a prisoner collapses while undergoing the treatment, the Doctor's scepticism looks justified.

The Doctor goes to the peace conference and helps the Brigadier foil another assassination, this time of the American delegate. The culprit is found to be Chinese Captain Chin Lee, but she has been hypnotised by the Master -- who is currently posing as Professor Emil Keller...

* BilingualBonus: The Doctor speaks in Hokkien dialect with the chinese delegate, which is kind of awesome. He also says he hadn't spoken in Chinese in a long time, which may be a CallBack to his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo Marco Polo]] adventures.

This story, despite being filmed in colour, for a long time existed only in black-and-white, as the original colour tapes had been lost. For the DVD release in 2013, the second to sixth episodes were recoloured using the automated chroma dot colour recovery method, while the first, whose films did not have chroma dots, was recolourised manually with the help of Stuart Humphryes, more commonly known as [[http://babelcolour.com/ Babelcolour]], a fan editor-turned-PromotedFanboy known for his high-quality colourisations of clips from the show's first six seasons (which were filmed on monochrome videotape).

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the car ride to the prison the Master holds a small radio while an ominous tune plays. He switches it off, it's gone. That's right; The Master has his own ''portable evil music''. It's rather awesome.
** It's "The Devil's Triangle" by Music/KingCrimson. Make of that what you will.

* ShoutOut: The Keller Machine was inspired by ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The Master listens to an excerpt from a piece of music known as "The Devil's Triangle". This was presumed to be an in-joke, i.e. implying that the Master is the Devil. Although on the face of it, the music piece is a 1970 instrumental number by Music/KingCrimson, it is based on a much earlier classical piece by Gustav Holst, written in the 1920s, called "Mars, the Bringer of War".

* {{Tuckerization}}: Lenny Vosper was named after scriptwriter Don Houghton's agent, Margary Vosper (who also represented producer Barry Letts).

This story, despite being filmed in colour, for a long time existed mostly in black and white, as the original colour prints had been lost. For the DVD release in 2013, the second to sixth episodes were recoloured using the automated chroma dot colour recovery method, while the first, whose films did not have chroma dots, was recolourised manually with the help of Stuart Humphryes, more commonly known as [[http://babelcolour.com/ Babelcolour]], a fan editor-turned-PromotedFanboy known for his high-quality colorizations of clips from the show's first six seasons (which were filmed on monochrome videotape).

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The cliffhanger for episode 5. Mailer has the Doctor at gunpoint, there's a close-up of a gun firing, end of episode. The beginning of the next episode reveals that it was the Brigadier firing on Mailer to save the Doctor.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno The Doctor mentions in episode two that he has recently witnessed an entire world consumed by fire]].

* {{Tuckeriation}}: Lenny Vosper was named after scriptwriter Don Houghton's agent, Margary Vosper (who also represented producer Barry Letts).