The library coughed up a copy of The Mind Of Terror the other day and I watched it this morning. It's the 56th serial and 2nd story in the 8th season. It didn't come out on dvd until last June. The previous release was the VHS tape and it was all in black and white. Here's what the Wikipedia says about the coloring: Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were restored to colour via the chroma dot colour recovery technique used for other black-and-white Pertwee-era stories. The telerecording of episode 1 does not contain chroma dot information (this was filtered out at the time it was made), and was recoloured using colour referenced from the other restored episodes. Keyframes, including the first frame of a shot and every fifth frame thereafter (Approximately 7,000 total) were hand coloured by Stuart Humphryes. Motion-estimation software was then used to interpolate the extrapolated colour from the key frames into the intervening frames.
Jon Pertwee is the Doctor and Katy Manning is his pal Jo Grant. The Doctor and Jo are at a prison to take a gander at a process where the bad impulses in the mind of a criminal is removed leaving the man docile and no longer a threat to society. The Doc is not impressed and thinks there is some danger. Of course he's right and soon enough we see that the Master is behind everything. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has a big problem of his own. UNIT is providing the security for a peace conference in which it appears that some members of the Chinese delegation are up to something. Of course, it's the Master. There's plenty of chasing and running about both in the prison and various places around the countryside. The Doc and Jo get caught and escape time and time again. It's a 6 parter so there's a good bit of time to fill. Still and all it turns out to be a better story than a lot of the long ones. It moves pretty quickly and there's plenty going on to keep me interested.
The special features have a nice commentary with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Pik-Sen Lim (Chin Lee) and Fernanda Marlowe (Corporal Bell), director Timothy Combe, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and stunt arranger Derek Ware. The cmmentary is moderated by Toby Hadoke. There's a making-up featurette called The Military Mind which has interviews with Nicholas Courtney, Pik-Sen Lim and Fernanda Marlow, director Timothy Combe, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks. Now and Then looks at the filming locations. Behind the Scenes: Television Centre is a 1971 short with TV presenter Norman Tozer visiting the BBC Television Centre. There's a PDF of the Radio Times listings and a 1971 Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks promotion. There's a nice photo gallery, that I liked, and an info sub title track that I never bothered with.
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