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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Starring: Tom Baker , Elisabeth Sladen
Directed by: Christopher Barry
Produced by: Philip Hinchcliffe
Written by: Robert Holmes , Terrance Dicks
The Time Lords have taken control of the TARDIS, sending the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) into dangerous territory.
Item Number: 14730
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 2/3 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Audio Commentary by actors Tom Baker (The Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane), Philip Madoc (Solon), producer Philip Hinchcliffe and director Christopher Barry
Getting a Head Making Of documentary featuring Christopher Barry, Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Terrance Dicks, designer Barry Newbery, composer Dudley Simpson, and actors Philip Madoc, Cynthia Grenville (Maren), Colin Fay (Condo) and Gillian Brown (Ohica), narrated by Paul McGann (32 mins)
Designs on Karn - Designer Barry Newbery tells how the planet Karn was created (6 mins)
Set Tour - Take a walk around the studio sets with this 3D CGI reconstruction (2 mins)
Photo Gallery (4 mins)
Sketch gallery (2 mins)
Production Note Option
PC-ROM feature Radio Times billings
Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
The Time Lords have taken control of the TARDIS, sending the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith into dangerous territory.
On the graveyard planet of Karn, the eternal Sisterhood fights to keep the sacred flame alive. High in the castle, the brilliant surgeon Mehendri Solon conducts gruesome experiments on living flesh. And as a storm approaches, an evil from the depths of Time Lord history plots its return to the land of the living.
But is even the Doctor's mind a match for the Brain of Morbius?
The planet Karn is home both to a mystic Sisterhood, whose sacred flame produces an elixir of life, and to Mehendri Solon, a fanatical scientist who is using the remnants of spaceship crash victims to put together a new body for the still-living brain of the executed Time Lord criminal Morbius.
When the Doctor and Sarah arrive on the planet, Solon decides that the Doctor's head is just what he needs to complete his work. The Sisterhood meanwhile fear that the Doctor has been sent by the Time Lords to steal the last drops of elixir produced by the dying flame. They kidnap him and plan to burn him at the stake but he is rescued by Sarah, who is temporarily blinded in the process.
The Doctor is tricked by Solon into believing that his companion's condition is permanent. He asks the Sisterhood for help and restores their sacred flame to its former glory using a firework to clear its blocked chimney. Returning to Solon's citadel, the Doctor and Sarah become trapped in the cellar.
The Doctor releases cyanide fumes into the ventilation system and Solon is killed, but not before he has used an artificial brain case to complete Morbius's new body. The now-mobile Morbius accepts the Doctor's challenge to a mind-bending contest, which takes a heavy toll on both of them. The Sisters force the crazed Morbius over a cliff and he falls to his death. They then use the elixir to heal the Doctor.
| The Doctor | --- | Tom Baker |
| Sarah Jane Smith | --- | Elisabeth Sladen |
| Condo | --- | Colin Fay |
| Kriz | --- | John Scott Martin |
| Maren | --- | Cynthia Grenville |
| Monster | --- | Stuart Fell |
| Ohica | --- | Gilly Brown |
| Sister | --- | Sue Bishop |
| Sister | --- | Janie Kells |
| Sister | --- | Gabrielle Mowbray |
| Sister | --- | Veronica Ridge |
| Solon | --- | Philip Madoc |
| Voice of Morbius | --- | Michael Spice |
Directed by Christopher Barry
Costumes by L Rowland Warne
Produced by Philip Hinchcliffe
Script Editing by Robert Holmes
Title Music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Written by Robin Bland This was a pseudonym for Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes
