But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine's circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes.

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch ...

What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell?
 

The TARDIS is in the path of molten lava and the Doctor is forced to activate the emergency unit to move it ... out of the time space dimension and out of reality! When the TARDIS crew land 'nowhere' they stumble into a world where fiction appears as reality and where things exist only when men believe in them. It is a world peopled by White Robots and a race of fictional characters and monsters, by Gulliver and Rapunzel, by D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot, and worse, by the Unicorn, the Minotaur and the Medusa.

As they explore the forest of worlds and the maze in this Land of Fiction new horizons await the Doctor and his companions round each corner ... will Zoe and Jamiebe turned into fictional characters? ... Is the Doctor at the mercy of a higher intelligence or force outside time and space as he knows it? Can he outwit the brain that is the source of this terrifying creative power?

Running time: 100 mins approx.

Produced by Peter Bryant
Directed by David Maloney
Original unedited black and white recordings.

First transmitted September 14th - October 12th 1968