The Mind Robber is a wonderfully bizarre story which takes the madcap, no-breaks production pace of 60s Doctor Who and uses it to its advantage. The surprise requirement of a fifth episode when The Dominators was cut down left Derrick Sherwin scrambling to write an introduction to the story. As a matter of happy accident, this resulted in an exceptionally good and surreal first episode. Peter Ling might not have liked it, but I certainly do.

Frazer Hines' surprise case of chicken pox is also played off with astonishing naturalism, using the nature of the Land of Fiction to briefly recast Jamie which works out brilliantly as a fix. This plays into the obvious meta tendencies of this story, which seems to flirt openly with acknowledging the Doctor as a fictional character in his own right.

The adventures in the Land of Fiction are great too; I love the sets and the variety of bizarre characters that the TARDIS team run into. This is one of the best stories of 60s Who, without a doubt.