The TARDIS lands on Karn, a bleak and stormy planet, where Solon, a disreputable galactic surgeon, is carrying out strange experiments. The planet is also the home of the Sister hood, witch like guardians of the mysterious Sacred Flame, from which is prepared the Elixir of Life, an immortality drug shared by the Sisters with the Time Lords. The Flame is dying and the High Priestess, Maren, believes the Doctor is a spy sent by the Time Lords to steal the few precious remaining drops of the Elixir. Meanwhile, the Doctor discovers that Solon is concealing the still living brain of Morbius, a high ranking renegade Time Lord and cosmic villain, supposed to have been executed some centuries ago. Solon is making a monstrous new body in which Morbius will live again to lead his followers in the conquest of the Galaxy. The Doctor and Sarah have to battle with Morbius, revived and on the rampage, and with the suspicious Sisterhood. The Doctor defeats Morbius in mental battle, and the body is destroyed by the Sisters, convinced of the Doctor's good faith after he restored the Flame to its former brilliance. Some of the Elixir is used to save the Doctor's life.

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The Doctor:  Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith: Elisabeth Sladen

Guest Appearances:
Dr. Mehendri Solon: Philip Madoc
Maren: Cynthia Grenville
Ohica: Gilly Brown
Sisters: Sue Bishop, Janie Kells, Gabrielle Mowbray, Veronica Ridge
Condo: Colin Faye
Kriz: John Scott Martin
Voice of Morbius: Michael Spice
Monster: Stuart Fell

Producer: Phillip Hinchcliffe
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Writer: Robin Bland (Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes)
Director: Christopher Barry
Designer: Barry Newbery
Costume: L. Rowland Warne
Make up: Jean McMillan
Visual Effects: John Horton
Music: Dudley Simpson

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Novelized as "Doctor Who The Brain of Morbius" by Terrance Dicks (0 426 11674 7). First published by W H Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd) as "Doctor Who and the Brain of
Morbius" in 1977 with cover art by Mike Little. New edition in 1991 with cover art by Alister Pearson. Target library number 7.

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Released as "The Brain of Morbius" July 1984 in UK (BBCV 2012) and in the US and Canada (CBS/FOX # 3715) in omnibus formats with photomontage cover. Re-released in episodic format in 1990 in UK (BBCV 4388) and US (Warners catalogue # E1348) with cover by Alister Pearson.

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The mind-bending competition between the Doctor and Morbius in Part Four features the images Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, William Hartnell, Philip Hinchcliffe, Robert Holmes, Douglas Camfield, Graeme Harper, Robert Banks Stewart, Christopher Baker, George Gallacio and Christopher Barry.
Michael Spice, who provided the voice of Morbius also played another memorable villain, Weng Chiang aka Magnus Greel in 'The Talons of Weng Chiang'.

All four episodes exist in color on videotape.

Studio recording in Stage TC1. (6-7 October 1975)
Studio recording in Stage TC3. (20-21 October 1975)
Studio recording in unknown studio. (24 October 1975)

Episode 1-4 - Wouldn't it have made alot more sense if Solon had just transferred Morbius's brain into the Doctor's body instead of the roundabout route of chopping off the Doctor's head, attaching it to the creature and only then transplanting the brain?
Episode 4 - Condo's death scene ranks high in terms of its stiltedness. He gives a fine "Heil Hitler" salute with both his right arm and leg, then slams to the floor as he dies as if being crushed by a 16-ton weight.
Episode 4 - The Morbius creature hits the camera as he falls to his death.