One of these is the writer Don Houghton. He wrote the episodes Inferno and The Mind of Evil, and while these episodes aren't the most important in the history of Doctor Who, they are certainly remarkably good. They're able to feel like modern scientific thrillers through using odd science fiction ideas and expanding on them, to create new stories where they are explored and investigated. Take, for instance, The Mind of Evil which concerns a machine that can rewrite people's minds by removing their evil thoughts. But by doing so, it means that most of the characters in the story are left vulnerable to attack, and shows the frailty of the human endeavour to always be good, due to the evil thoughts that perpetuate our minds. Houghton uses this idea well, and it will be a shame not to see more of his writing in the future.
Also, we say farewell to Tim Combe, the director of The Mind of Evil and Doctor Who and the Silurians. Both stories are remarkably well directed, with a flair for interesting camera movements. Take the scene where the Keller Machine escapes in Mind, for instance. Instead of just having some special effects around it, he also decides to violently shake the camera from side to side, creating the illusion of great desturction occurring. However, he was removed from Doctor Who for going spectacularly over budget, which is a shame as it would certainly have been nice to see what pther things he could have done for the programme.
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