45. The Mind Robber

Finally by 1968, Doctor Who embraces the great drug culture of the 60's with the trippiest, craziest, most off the wall story ever. The Mind Robber takes our TARDIS team to the so-called Land of Fiction where anything literary can happen. The TARDIS blows apart. The Doctor recreates Jamie's face for an episode. Everybody runs around in a stark white void for a lot of the time.

Come to find out, this Land of Fiction is controlled by The Master. But not the Master we know today, a different Master, only of this Land of Fiction. And he's some poor schmuck writer who's stuck controlling this realm. And he's looking to retire and wants the Doctor to replace him. Of course the Doctor turns him down, rips him out of the realm and dissolves the Land of Fiction. Chalk another coup up to the Doctor!

This story sticks out like sore thumb in this season, with alien occupations, Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Space Pirates. This story actually sticks out amongst the first six seasons of Doctor Who with only The Celestial Toymaker coming in second.

But as it's one of the few Patrick Troughton episodes that still exists, we will love it unquestionably!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_Robber