THE STORY
To escape the volcanic eruptions on Dulkis, the Doctor uses an emergency unit which moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie finds themselves in an endless void, where they are menaced by White Robots. Having returned to the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped - until the ship suddenly explodes apart. They then find themsleves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel and Gulliver.The land is controlled by a man known only as the Master (No, not that one!) - a prolific English writer from 1926 - who in turn is controlled by a Master Brain computer. The Master is desperate to escape and wants the Doctor to take over his position, while the Master Brain plans to exert its influence over Earth. The Doctor engages the Master in a battle of wills using a variety of fictional characters. Zoe and Jamie meanwhile overload the computer and, in the confusion, the White Robots destroy the Master Brain, finally freeing the Master. The TARDIS reforms in space.
CAST:
Dr Who (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines), Zoe (Wendy Padbury), The Master (Emrys Jones), Robots (John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener, Terry Wright), Jamie (Hamish Wilson), A Stranger/Gulliver (Bernard Horsfall), Children (Barbara Loft, Sylvestra Le Tozel, Timothy Horton, Christopher Reynolds, David Reynolds, Martin Langley), Soldiers (Paul Alexander, Ian Hines, Richard Ireson), Redcoat (Philip Ryan), Princess Rapunzel (Christine Pirie), The Medusa (Sue Pulford), Karkus (Christopher Robbie), D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot (John Greenwood), Cyrano (David Cannon), Blackbeard (Gerry Wain).
FACTS:
The character of Gulliver speaks only lines written for him by Jonathan Swift in 'Gulliver's Travels'.
Ian Hines, the brother of Frazer Hines, who played Jamie, appears as one of the Clockwork Soldiers.
The Land of Fiction
made a reapearance in the New Adventures 'Conundrum' and 'Head Games' written by Steve Lyons.
OTHER FORMATS:
The Second Doctor Novelisations
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