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Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius

Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius

BBC (Jan 03, 1976)
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Science Fiction
UK | English | Color | 00:25
Episode 84
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
883929026081
| 1 disc
Region 1
Keep Case

The planet Karn is home both to a mystic Sisterhood, whose sacred flame produces an elixir of life, and to Mehendri Solon, a fanatical scientist who is using the remnants of spaceship crash victims to put together a new body for the still-living brain of the executed Time Lord criminal Morbius.

When the Doctor and Sarah arrive on the planet, Solon decides that the Doctor's head is just what he needs to complete his work. The Sisterhood meanwhile fear that the Doctor has been sent by the Time Lords to steal the last drops of elixir produced by the dying flame. They kidnap him and plan to burn him at the stake but he is rescued by Sarah, who is temporarily blinded in the process.

The Doctor is tricked by Solon into believing that his companion's condition is permanent. He asks the Sisterhood for help and restores their sacred flame to its former glory using a firework to clear its blocked chimney. Returning to Solon's citadel, the Doctor and Sarah become trapped in the cellar.

The Doctor releases cyanide fumes into the ventilation system and Solon is killed, but not before he has used an artificial brain case to complete Morbius's new body. The now-mobile Morbius accepts the Doctor's challenge to a mind-bending contest, which takes a heavy toll on both of them. The Sisters force the crazed Morbius over a cliff and he falls to his death. They then use the elixir to heal the Doctor.


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17 The Brain of Morbius (1) 25 min | Jan 03, 1976

The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...

Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Robin Bland, Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks
Guest stars: Philip Madoc, Cynthia Grenville, Gilly Brown, Sue Bishop, Janie Kells, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge, Colin Fay, Stuart Fell
18 The Brain of Morbius (2) 25 min | Jan 10, 1976

The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.

Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes, Robin Bland
Guest stars: Philip Madoc, Michael Spice, Cynthia Grenville, Gilly Brown, Sue Bishop, Janie Kells, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge, Colin Fay
19 The Brain of Morbius (3) 25 min | Jan 17, 1976

While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.

Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes, Robin Bland
Guest stars: Philip Madoc, Michael Spice, Colin Fay, Cynthia Grenville, Gilly Brown, Sue Bishop, Janie Kells, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge, Stuart Fell
20 The Brain of Morbius (4) 25 min | Jan 24, 1976

Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.

Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes, Robin Bland
Guest stars: Philip Madoc, Michael Spice, Colin Fay, Cynthia Grenville, Gilly Brown, Sue Bishop, Janie Kellis, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge, Stuart Fell