FFF. The Mind of Evil
Writer: Don Houghton
Director: Timothy Combe
Designer: Ray London
Incidental Music by: Dudley Simpson
Fights Arranged by (4)/Action by (5): Havoc
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
283. Episode One 30.01.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 9.2M/61st
284. Episode Two 06.02.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 8.8M/54th
285. Episode Three 13.02.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 7.5M/70th
286. Episode Four 20.02.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 7.4M/63rd
287. Episode Five 27.02.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 7.6M/58th
288. Episode Six 06.03.1971 5.15pm - 5.40pm 7.3M/65th
CAST:
GEORGE BARNHAM: Neil McCarthy (1-3,5-6); CORPORAL BELL: Fernanda Marlowe (1-4); DR
ROLAND SUMMERS: Michael Sheard (1-4); PRISON GOVERNOR (MAJOR VICTOR CAMFORD): Raymond
Westell (1-3); CAPTAIN CHIN-LEE: Pik-Sen Lim (1-3); CHIEF PRISON OFFICER POWERS: Roy
Purcell (1-3); SENIOR PRISON OFFICER GREEN: Eric Mason (1-3); PROFESSOR CHARLES
KETTERING: Simon Lack (1); ARTHUR LINWOOD: Clive Scott (1); THE MASTER: Roger
Delgado (2-6); HARRY MAILER: William Marlowe (2-5, reprise 6); LENNIE VOSPER: Hadyn
Jones (2-4); FU PENG: Kristopher Kum (2-3); SENATOR ALCOTT: Tommy Duggan (2);
PRISON OFFICERS: Dave Carter, Martin Gordon, Bill Matthews, Barry Wade; CHARLIE: David
Calerisi (4); MAJOR COSWORTH: Patrick Godfrey (5-6); FULLER: Johnny Barrs (5); MAIN
GATE PRISONER: Matthew Walters (5). UNCREDITED: POLICE SUPERINTENDENT: Paul Blomley (1);
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Stuart Fell (1), Charles Marriott (1); GENERAL CHENG TEIK: Francis
Batsoni (1); THE MASTER'S CHAUFFEUR: Francis Williams (2,3,6); AMERICAN AIDE: Nick
Hobbs (2); UNIT CORPORAL: Billy Horrigan (2); VOICES ON TELEPHONE (UNIT TRANSPORT
DIVISION): Laurence Harrington (2); CHINESE AIDE: Paul Tann (2); PASSERBY: Jim
Delaney (2); FEMALE STUDENT: Maureen Race (2); POLICE INSPECTOR: Richard Atherton (4);
PRISON OFFICERS: Richard Atherton, Les Clark, Les Conrad, Tony Jenkins, Gordon Stoppard,
Leslie Weeks; PRISONERS/AUDIENCE: Richard Atherton, Denis Balcombe, George Ballentine,
Francis Batsoni, Paul Blomley, Marc Boyle, Michael Carter, Alan Chuntz, Les Clark, Les Conrad, Billy
Horrigan, Nad Hood, Leonard Kingston, Roger Marsden, Alistair McFarlane, Valentino Musetti, Mike
Stevens, Cy Town, Wolfgang Van Jergen, Desmond Verlini, Matthew Walters, Phillip Webb; MEDICAL
OFFICERS: Charles Finch, Charles Pickess, Cy Town; UNIT SOLDIERS AND STAFF: Denis
Balcombe, Stuart Fell, Nick Hobbs, Charles Marriott, Roger Marsden; EXTRAS: Laurie Ayres,
Denis Balcombe, Robert Bald, Bob Blaine, Frank Bennett, Michael Carter, Derek Chafer, Johnny Clump,
Timothy Combe, Max Diamond, Pat Donohue, Ian Elliott, Gary Gregory, PG Heath, Tony Jenkins, Ricky
Lancing, Derek Martin, Roy Scammell, Mike Stevens, Terry Walsh and Lance Bombadier R Berkley,
Gunner K Davenport, Bombadier A Graham, Bombadier Barry Hall, Sergeant Herridge, Bombadier J Lamb,
Sergeant D Talbot, Bombadier R Thompson
STORY:
The Doctor and Jo attend a demonstration of the Keller Machine at Stangmoor Prison; it is claimed that the machine
can extract negative emotions. The Doctor is sceptical, and this seems justified when a prisoner collapses during treatment.
The Brigadier has problems of his own: U.N.I.T. are providing security for the World Peace Conference when documents go missing,
and the Chiese delegate is found dead. At the sane time Captain Yates is in charge of taking a Thunderbolt missile to be
destroyed.
The Doctor and Jo join the Brigadier, and manage to stop the Chinsese delegate's aide, Captain Chin Lee, from killing the
American delegate. Lee is actually under the control of the Master, who is assuming the guise of Emil Keller.
The Master is using the stored negative emotions from the Keller Machine to cause unrest at the prison, and then uses the convicts
to sieze the missile with the aim of destroying the peace conference. The Doctor manages to activate the missile's auto-destruct.
The emotions container and machine are presumed destroyed, but the Master escapes ...
BLOOPERS:
Episode 3: After the Master has the Doctor brought to the prison office, he informs him that
he intends to steal a nuclear weapon from U.N.I.T. to blow up the World Peace Conference. As
has already been firmly established in the previous two episodes, it is a nerve gas missile; the
Master himself even heard this information from having tapped the phones at HQ.
Episode 3: As the Doctor and the Master have a fist-fight in the prison governor's office
they knock over a water carafe, and slip and slide all over the ensuing puddle. This wasn't meant
to happen, but they kept it in the finished episode, just because it looked great.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 3
LOCATIONS:
Dover Castle, Kent; Kensington, London
WORKING TITLES:
Pandora's Box, The Pandora Machine
NOTES:
This is the only colour story where all of the episodes are only held by the BBC in black and white
NOVELISATION:
The Mind of Evil
Terrance Dicks
VIDEO:
The Mind of Evil
