Day 217: The Mind Robber Episode 3

Indeed, this story marks a departure for Doctor Who. This is an adventure set within the Land of Fiction, where we aren't really encountering things like what we had with previous stories, where things had scientific or historic explanations. Here, they're all cast aside as we enter into the realms of fantasy. We can fight unicorns and minotaurs, who can only be defeated by not believing in them. We don't need explanations as to how these things work because we're in a fantasy dream like state, and instead we can just enjoy the story for what it is.

It should be noted that the last time that Doctor Who went into fantasy was for The Celestial Toymaker, which took a similar slant on things. There, everything was indeed possible, but each idea was stretched out to an entire episode, leaving us with the realisation that the story only had a finite amount of ideas. Here, in The Mind Robber, we get to see that each episode has three or four things that could happen within it, each of them absolutely brilliant. We can see that a man can lose his face and come back with a new one, or that characters can read along with things that are happening in other scenes through a device ominously titled "Work In Progress". By showing all of this imagination, we're able to truly enjoy this serial as we go forth on our adventures.