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the faceless ones

story 35 : season 4 : serial KK : 6 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: David Ellis
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
Script Editor: Gerry Davis
Designer: Geoff Kirkland

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Michael Craze (Ben Jackson); Anneke Wills (Polly Wright); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs); James Appleby (Policeman); Colin Gordon (Commandant); George Selway (Meadows); Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock); Victor Winding (Spencer); Peter Whitaker (Inspector Gascoigne); Donald Pickering (Blade); Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins); Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto); Bernard Kay (Crossland); Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson); Brigit Paul (Announcer); Barry Wilsher (Heslington); Michael Ladkin (R.A.F. Pilot); Leonard Trolley (Supt. Reynolds);

crew information

Sue Marlborough (Assistant Floor Manager); Peter Bryant (Associate Producer); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Sandra Reid (Costumes); Tony Imi (Film Cameraman); Chris Hayden (Film Editor); Gillian James (Make-Up); Richard Brooks (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Gordon Mackie (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 8 April 1967 at 17:50 23'47" 8.0mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode 2 15 April 1967 at 17:50 25'22" 6.4mil does not exist
3 Episode 3 22 April 1967 at 17:50 23'10" 7.9mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode 4 29 April 1967 at 17:50 24'48" 6.9mil does not exist
5 Episode 5 6 May 1967 at 17:50 23'34" 7.1mil does not exist
6 Episode 6 13 May 1967 at 17:50 23'08" 8.0mil does not exist
  1. Episode 1
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Incomplete print returned by ABC, Australia c.1981
  2. Episode 2
    » Clip exists in the form of an 8mm home movie reel shot off a television set
  3. Episode 3
    » Damaged print recovered in April 1987
  4. Episode 4
  5. Episode 5
  6. Episode 6

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Faceless Ones
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 116 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
ISBN: 0 491 03692 2
21 May 1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
ISBN: 0 426 20294 5

plot synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in 1966, and lands on the runway of Gatwick Airport. The Doctor becomes suspicious of one of the tour groups, and it's revealed that Chameleon Tours is run by a group of aliens who have no identity, and they're using charter flights to kidnap both airline staff and passengers to steal their likenesses. Realising they're back on Earth on the day they left on their first trip in the TARDIS, Ben and Polly elect to stay behind, and as the Doctor and Jamie return to the time machine, they see it being driven away on the back of a lorry...

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