Talk:The Mind Robber

Episode running times

My apologies if this seems a nitpick to most Dr Who/wiki members. I just thought that if someone was new to Dr Who and had come to wikipedia to find out more about this story that this fact was worth mentioning. When I first saw this story in the 1980's I thought that I must be seeing a heavily edited version since it was so much shorter that any other five parters (few as they were). Also apologies for not making the entry under my user name (I don't know how I got bumped out) but here it is for any who might want to comment.User:MarnetteD | Talk 23:39, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

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All of the fictional characters used were public domain i assume?

Yes. Well, the fictional ones that came from actual literature and legend, anyway. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 13:48, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Continuity

At one point during this episode, the doctor meets an englishman who first speaks to him in latin and all sorts of other languages, and the doctor asks him if he speaks english. This contradicts later claims that the TARDIS translates everything. Of course, an explanation for that might be that they were outside reality itself. Anyway, might be worth mentioning in the "continuity" section. --Mithcoriel (talk) 19:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Gorgon

"removed reference as it has nothing to do with the SJS episode...".

Really? I was pointing out that The Doctor doesn't know everything, which he sometimes thinks he does. The Gorgons were/are real, yet The Doctor doesn't know/believe this. Why can that not be pointed out? [User: Stripey]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.5.231 (talk) 09:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

This is a TV show not reality. The creators of the SJS episode were not referencing this story at all. Your posts would go well on a blog or a fan page, but not an encyclopedia.MarnetteD | Talk 14:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Why no mention of the end of Part 1

The nature of their entry into this realm was quite avant-garde and does deserve mention here, not to mention the fact that it includes one of the hottest scenes ever performed by a Doctor Who babe, with Zoe draped across the console in that catsuit in a very suggestive pose. 63.152.108.125 (talk) 06:15, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Wendy Padbury and Bernard Horsfall reunion in Davros was deliberate from Big Finish

The makers of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas are big fans of Doctor Who and they know the history of Doctor Who well. Therefore there was nothing coincidental when they cast Bernard Horsfall and Wendy Padbury together in Davros providing them with a reunion from their experience working on The Mind Robber. Hence why this reunion is relevant in being mentioned in this article. 58.109.94.172 (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

And you have reliable sourcing for this assertion from where? As it stand this is WP:OR/trainspotting and does not belong in the article. WP:INDISCRIMINATE applies as well. MarnetteD|Talk 20:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

What part of "leave me alone" didn't you understand MarnetteD.

How about consistency. This is from the article of the 1996 Doctor Who movie: "Daphne Ashbrook would later return in 2004 alongside Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor as Perfection in the audio drama The Next Life. Tso and Ashbrook returned to Big Finish together playing Captain Ruth Matheson and Warrant Officer Charlie Sato of UNIT in the audio dramas Tales From The Vault and Mastermind, both part of the Companions Chronicles series, in 2011 and 2013."

Therefore for consistency the fact of Padbury and Horsfall's reunion should be included here. If not, then for consistency MarnetteD should remove the said facts from the Doctor Who 1996 article from that article.58.109.94.172 (talk) 20:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

That has no bearing on the situation, per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 23:36, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Without a statement that it was deliberate, it is coincidental. And if coincidental, is it notable? But what is needed is a source to note that it is deliberate. I find the interviews with the production team and actors included in the Big Finish dramas generally cover such things. GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:40, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

"master" vs "The Master"

can someone edit it so that it is clear that the Master mentioned in this article is not *THE* master? ClintJCL (talk) 12:13, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

From first mention: Here, they meet the Master, a kidnapped Earth writer who underwent the same tests as them when he first arrived. Seems pretty clear to me. DonQuixote (talk) 12:23, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

I've made the change, because it is warranted. Several have come to the page wondering about exactly that. If it is "pretty clear" to a fan of the show, that speaks to the need for including the clarification in this article, as a non-fan audience would be understandably confused, especially in the United States where 'Master' doesn't have the secondary meaning of 'schoolteacher' and the coincidence of two characters in the same series with the same name would be even more striking. Indeed, the article on more famous of Doctor Who's 'Masters' contains the same clarification. TimeHurts (talk) 23:06, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

A) You will have to provide proof of the "several" that have come to this page wondering about this. B) You seem to have missed that this is explained in the lede. C) The master in this story has nothing to do with schoolteachers. MarnetteD|Talk 23:10, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I for one was confused then I read the synapsis of this episode in an early edition of Doctor WHo: The Episode Guide as the only "Master" I knew of was the Time Lord of that name.--2606:A000:131D:6018:885D:3300:232B:DBC1 (talk) 19:21, 20 May 2019 (UTC)