Trailer for Doctor Who DVD Release "The Mind of Evil"

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Mind of Evil

Doctor Who:

The Mind of Evil

By Don Houghton

“The mind of evil, Jo. I should have realized. That creature feeds on the evil impulses of the brain.”

Three situations that are linked together and it is nothing to do with the involvement of UNIT with all these scenarios.  In fact while he is trapped on Earth due to the fact of The Doctor stealing his dematerialization circuit from his Tardis The Master is up to no good trying to take over the Earth and he has a very complex and ingenious plan on achieving that goal.  First he is trying to disrupt the World Peace Conference by getting the Chinese and Americans to go t war against one another by killing off each countries delegates. Then there is the missile that has nerve gas and is scheduled to be dumped into the ocean where it will be safe from being used against humanity.  The Master plans on stealing this missile and aiming it at any European city.

 Then there is Stangmoor Prison where the mysterious Keller Machine resides.  It is a device that takes the evil out of the prisoner’s minds and makes them pacifist and able to rejoin society.  But an unexplained rash of strange deaths like drowning in a dry room and eaten by rats in a ratless building has The Doctor thinking that all these events could be related.   So when these types of deaths is happening at the conferences and the prisoners take over the jail The Doctor and Jo are trapped by The Master and are an added bonus to his plans of world domination. That and the Keller Machine has a mind of its own as The Master will eventually lose control of its alien ally and that is a bigger threat to his plans. 

Doctor Who DVD Releases Announced. Kind Of Disappointed With One

The Doctor Who website has announced a list of upcoming DVD releases.  While some good news I was greatly disappointed with one and surprised by another.  We finally have confirmation for the last two complete Doctor Who stories Tom Bakers "Terror of the Zygons" and the colorized Jon Pertwee story "The Mind of Evil" which also has a great performance by Roger Delgado as The Master.

In what was a surprise they are releasing the web story "The Scream of the Shalka' which stars Richard E. Grant as The Doctor and quite before Utopia  Derek Jacobi as The Master.  This was an animated web episode that aired on the Doctor Who website back in 2003.

What I find to be greatly disappointing is the release of "The Ice Warriors".  Apparently they will not be animating the missing episodes 2 and 3 like they have before with "The Invasion" and this months release of "The Reign of Terror" but instead are reconstructing them with telesnaps and audio.  This is BS and inexcusable.  Why bother releasing it at all.  You take the time to animate the other two releases but go half ass with The Ice Warriors. Shame on you Doctor Who Restoration Team and BBC DVD.  That is just poor judgement on your part and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is pissed and disappointed with this news.

Plus of course we have the typical special editions along with the "Spearhead from Space" Blu Ray which will be the only classic blu ray release.  Here is the full list of releases and UK dates.

February 25: The Ark in Space: Special Edition
March 11: The Aztecs: Special Edition (plus Galaxy 4 reconstruction)
May 6: The Visitation: Special Edition
May 27: Inferno: Special Edition
June 3: The Mind of Evil
June 24: Terror of the Zygons
July 15: Spearhead from Space Blu-Ray
August 5: The Green Death: Special Edition
August 26: The Ice Warriors
September 16: Scream of the Shalka