Sue Bishop, Janie Kells, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge – Sisters
John Scott Martin – Kriz
Production
Directed by
Christopher Barry
Written by
"Robin Bland" (Terrance Dicks rewritten by Robert Holmes)
Script editor
Robert Holmes
Produced by
Philip Hinchcliffe
Executive producer(s)
None
Music by
Dudley Simpson
Production code
4K
Series
Season 13
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
3 January 1976 (1976-01-03)
Last broadcast
24 January 1976 (1976-01-24)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Android Invasion
Followed by → The Seeds of Doom
List of episodes (1963–1989)
The Brain of Morbius is the fifth serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1976. The screenwriter credit is given to Robin Bland, a pseudonym for writer and former script editor Terrance Dicks, whose original script had been heavily rewritten by his successor as script editor, Robert Holmes. It is the first serial to feature the Sisterhood of Karn.
The serial is considered to have many thematic links to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.[1]
It is set on the planet Karn, where the surgeon Mehendri Solon (Philip Madoc) seeks to create a body for the Time Lord war criminal Morbius (Stuart Fell and Michael Spice) from parts of other creatures that have come to the planet.
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