Customer Ratings & Reviews

In the 70s the show was highly in flux. With the added cost of switching to color there were rumors Doctor Who would be cancelled. Needing ideas to bring in viewers under the limits of the budget they put all their episodes on Earth. But more was needed to bring back the fans. Enter the Master, suave, sophisticated and thoroughly ruthless. Roger Delgado was the Master and each actor who tried to follow in those footsteps had to try to fill those shoes.

"The Daemons" is easily one of the best of Jon Pertwee's turns as The Doctor. By this point in the series, "Doctor Who" had begun aiming toward a more mature audience, and this is a perfect example of a story that would appeal more to older viewers than pre-teens. Roger Delgado gives one of his archetypal performances as The Master, as well.

A classic Pertwee era story. I was happy to see that this was reissued. It has been OOP for several years and copies that remained were going for a lot more money than I was willing to spend. Get it when you can cause it'll be OOP again soon.

Because the BBC junked many Doctor Who recordings in the 1970s, this story, originally on color videotape, was only known from a surviving set of black&white film prints. Using a new color recovery process, this story can now be seen in full color for the first time in over 40 years!

Bureaucratic stupidity and self-serving politicians create a situation the Doctor has to clean up, and a character who has been nothing but trouble gets what's coming to him.

A nice combination of the Master, international relations, nuclear war, and mind control.

If you are Doctor Who (original series) fan, then you'll want it.

Very good story, Big fan of Jon Pertwee Era love the dynamic of him and the master

The Mind of Evil holds a special spot among Doctor Who fans as the only story made in color for which no color information whatsoever existed for one of its episodes. Thanks to a manual recolorization and the practically miraculous technology of chroma-dot color recovery, we now have the entire story in full color about 35 years after its last color broadcast anywhere in the world. Surprisingly dark for a Pertwee tale, The Mind of Evil has rather a lot of shocking moments and some incredibly-directed action sequences. If you're a Pertwee fan and not lucky enough to have seen it during its 1970s American broadcasts, you don't know what you're missing by not seeing this story in color.

"The Daemons" has always been considered a classic, and with good reason - it's one of those stories where everything simply meshes together beautifully. There's not a dull moment in an action-packed, fun adventure.