.
.
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 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
CC
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28
|
10
Sep 66 - 01 Oct 66
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4
|
 |
DD
|
29
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08
Oct 66 - 29 Oct 66
|
4
|
 |
EE
|
30
|
05
Nov 66 - 10 Dec 66
|
6
|
 |
FF
|
31
|
17
Dec 66 - 07 Jan 67
|
4
|
|
GG
|
32
|
14
Jan 67 - 04 Feb 67
|
4
|
|
|
HH
|
33
|
11
Feb 67 - 4 Mar 67
|
4
|
|
|
JJ
|
34
|
11
Mar 67 - 01 Apr 67
|
4
|
|
|
KK
|
35
|
08
Apr 67 - 13 May 67
|
6
|
|
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LL
|
36
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20
May 67 - 01 Jul 67
|
7
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|
Episode
1.
|
8th
April 1967
|
5:50
p.m.
|
23.47
|
8.0
|
47
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|
Episode
2.
|
15th
April 1967
|
5:51
p.m.
|
25.22
|
6.4
|
70
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|
Episode
3.
|
22nd
April 1967
|
5:50
p.m.
|
23.10
|
7.9
|
43
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| Episode 4. |
29th
April 1967
|
5:50
p.m.
|
24.28
|
6.9
|
62
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| Episode 5. |
6th
May 1967
|
5:52
p.m.
|
23.34
|
7.1
|
39
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| Episode 6. |
13th
May 1967
|
5:50
p.m.
|
23.38
|
8.0
|
33
|
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It's
Gatwick Airport in 1966 and the TARDIS materializes on the runway in front
of an incoming jet. While Polly hides in the hangar she is witness to
the murder of a detective. Then Polly and Ben are kidnapped and the Doctor
discovers others have disappeared - all passengers on Chameleon Tours
charter nights. The kidnappers are the Chameleons, a race from another
planet who have lost their identities and faces in a nuclear explosion
and are dying out. Their scientists have devised a method for taking over
the identity of Humans, the transfer process taking four weeks. The Chameleons
have lured onto aircraft and then miniaturized 50,000 passengers, now
held on a space station hundreds of miles above the Earth. The Doctor
succeeds in freeing the captives and in aiding the Chameleons to survive.
Ben and Polly decide to remain in the England of 1966.
The Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Polly Wright: Anneke
Wills
Ben Jackson: Michael Craze
Jamie McCrimmon: Frazer
Hines
Guest Appearances:
Policeman: James Appleby
Commandant: Colin
Gordon
Meadows: George
Selway
Jean Rock: Wanda
Ventham
Spencer: Victor
Winding
Gascoigne: Peter
Whitaker
Blade: Donald
Pickering
Jenkins: Christopher
Tranchell
Pinto: Madelena
Nicol
Crossland: Bernard
Kay
Samantha Briggs: Pauline
Collins
Ann Davidson: Gilly
Fraser
Announcer: Brigit Paul
Heselington: Barry
Wilsher
RAF Pilot: Michael
Ladkin
Reynolds: Leonard
Trolley
Chameleons: Robin
Dawson, Barry du Pre, Pat Leclere, Roy Pearce
Producer: Innes
Lloyd.
Associate Producer:
Peter Bryant.
Script Editor: Gerry
Davis.
Writer: David
Ellis, Malcolm Hulke.
Director:
Gerry Mill.
Designer: Kenneth
Sharp.
Costume:
Daphne Dare, Sandra Reid.
Make up: Gillian James.
Music : Stock.
("Nigerian Drums" composer unknown, "Fantasy
in Orbit" from "Pacific Dawn" composer unknown,
"Hindu Funeral Drumming" by John Levy).
Novelised
as "Doctor Who -- The Faceless Ones" by Terrance Dicks
(0 426 20294 5) first published by W H Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd.)
released in 1986 with cover art by Tony Masero. Target library number
116.
a
Not available on video due to loss of
story.
Complete
audio soundtrack exists, released by the BBC Radio Collection on CD in
the UK, and in US and Canada. March 2002 (0 563 53501 6).
.
.
This episode
features the departures of Anneke Wills and Michael Craze (Polly and Ben),
they appear only in episodes 1 and 2 and a brief appearance in episode
6.
The character of Samantha Briggs was chosen as a companion, although actress
Pauline Collins declined the role.
Cast member Wanda Ventham would later appear in several Who stories (including
"Image of the Fendahl" and "Time and the Rani").
Episodes 1 and 3 exist as 16mm telerecordings.
Ealing
Filming Stage 3 A/B. (15-16 March 1967)
Ealing Filming Stage
3 A. (11 April 1967)
Studio recording in Lime Grove D. (1, 8, 15, 22,
29 April; 6 May 1967)
Gatwick Airport, Gatwick, Surrey.
• Air Courier's Apron. (13 & 17 March 1967)
• Passanger Concourse. (10
March 1967)
• Main Car Park. (14 March 1967)
Episode 1 - As the Doctor, Jamie and Polly decide to go to the main airport building after finding the dead body - you can distinctly see a shadow passing behind the upper portion of the door.