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'''The Faceless Ones''' was the eighth story of [[Season 4]] of ''Doctor Who''. Companions [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly]], played by [[Michael Craze]] and [[Anneke Wills]] respectively, left the series at the end of this story.


==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==

Revision as of 15:45, 5 October 2007


The Faceless Ones was the eighth story of Season 4 of Doctor Who. Companions Ben Jackson and Polly, played by Michael Craze and Anneke Wills respectively, left the series at the end of this story.

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1966 - on a runway at Gatwick airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Subsequently Ben also vanishes. The Doctor and Jamie are left to try to convince the sceptical airport Commandant that there has been foul play.

It transpires that a great many other young people have also vanished, all of them while on Chameleon Tours holidays. With the help of Samantha Briggs, the sister of one of the missing youths, the Doctor and Jamie uncover a plot by the alien Chameleons to kidnap human youngsters in order to take their identities - for the Chameleons have lost their own in an accident on their home planet.

The Doctor offers to help the Chameleons find another solution to their problem and the kidnapped humans are released.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

Story Notes

  • Samantha Briggs was originally designed to be a companion, however Pauline Collins turned down the offer.
  • Pauline Collins appears playing Sam Briggs, she appears later (much so) in Tooth and Claw.
  • This story had a working title of; The Chameleons.

Ratings

  • Episode 1 - 8.0 million viewers
  • Episode 2 - 6.4 million viewers
  • Episode 3 - 7.9 million viewers
  • Episode 4 - 6.9 million viewers
  • Episode 5 - 7.1 million viewers
  • Episode 6 - 8.0 million viewers

Myths

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Location Filming

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

DVD, Video and Other Releases

DVD Release

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The surviving episodes (Episodes 1 & 3) were released as part of the Lost in Time set.

Released:

PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1353
NTSC - Warner Video E2082 (Troughton 2 disc set) / E2083 (Box set)

Video Releases

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The surviving episodes (Episodes 1 & 3) were released alongside The Web of Fear Episode 1 and the remaining episodes of The Reign of Terror as part of a two cassette release entitled Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror.

Released:

PAL - BBC Video BBCV7335
NTSC - Warner Video E1853

Notes: The US release was also located in The End of the Universe Collection.

Target Novelisations

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See Also

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External Links

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