based on the BBC television series by Peter Ling by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation Doctor Who
Peter Ling: Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (1986, W.H. Allen)
144 pages
English language
Published Dec. 18, 1986 by W.H. Allen.
To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as 'nowhere'. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine's circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...
What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell?
Derek Jacobi's narration adds a certain gravitas to this surreal alt-reality tale of storybook characters interacting with the Doctor and his two companions. I loved the concept, although did feel it took too long to actually get going. Once underway, however, this is an entertaining listen and it was fun trying to recognise all the other storybook characters as they appeared.
