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4M
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04 Sep 76 - 25 Sep 76
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4N
87
02 Oct 76 - 23 Oct 76
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4P
88
30 Oct 76 - 20 Nov 76
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4Q
89
01 Jan 77 - 22 Jan 77
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29 Jan 76 - 19 Feb 76
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26 Feb 76 - 02 Apr 76
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Episode 1.
1 January 1977
6:22 p.m.
24.58
10.7
23
Episode 2.
8 January 1977
6:30 p.m.
24.58
11.0
19
Episode 3.
15 January 1977
6:22 p.m.
24.40
11.3
20
Episode 4.
22 January 1977
6:27 p.m.
24.46
11.7
19
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The Doctor lands on a planet where he is captured by a tribe which calls itself the Sevateem. Thee Doctor survives the Test of the Horda. He discovers that the god Xoanon revered by the Sevateem is a giant computer which has developed a split personality after having been reprogrammed long ago by the Doctor with his own brain patterns. To correct his mistake the Doctor and a group of warriors from the Sevateem invade the sanctuary of Xoanon and encounter another tribe, the Tesh, who have developed destructive psychic powers. The Doctor succeeds in removing his brain patterns from Xoanon and in reconciling the two warring tribes. Leela, a Sevateern warrior who befriends the Doctor, slips into the TARDIS and follows the Doctor in pursuit of adventure.
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The Doctor:  Tom Baker
Leela: Louise Jameson

Guest Appearances:
Calib: Leslie Schofield
Andor: Victor Lucas
Tomas: Brendan Price
Sole: Colin Thomas
Neeva: David Garfield
Lugo: Lloyd McGuire
Guards: Tom Kelly, Brett Forrest
Jabel: Leon Eagles
Gentek: Mike Elles
Acolyte: Peter Baldock
voices of Xoanon: Tom Baker, Rob Edwards, Pamela Salem, Anthony Frieze, Roy Herrick
Crowd voices: Alan Charles
Assassins: David Nichol, Harry Fielder

Producer: Phillip Hinchcliffe
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Writer: Chris Boucher
Director: Pennant Roberts
Designer: Austin Ruddy
Costume: John Bloomfield
Make up: Ann Ailes
Visual Effects: Matt Irvine
Music: Dudley Simpson
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1980 Target edition with cover art by Mike Little1991 Pinacle edition with cover art by Alister Pearson1989 Dr Who Classics Series

Novelized as "Doctor Who and The Face of Evil" by Terrance Dicks (0 426 20006 3) first published by W H Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd) in 1978 with cover by Jeff Cummins. New edition in 1993 renamed as "Doctor Who - the Face of Evil" with cover by Alister Pearson. Target library number 25.

In May 1989 it was paired with "Doctor Who and the Sunmakers" to become the last of Star Books' "Doctor Who Classics" releases (0 352 32417 1). The book was formed by gluing together surplus copies of the two novelisations within a single new cover.

The Further Adventures image with cover by Dan Horne"The Face of Evil" was united with two other season fourteen stories, "The Deadly Assassin" and "The Robots of Death" and was released in the USA as "The Further Adventures of Doctor Who". The book was only available through book clubs and only as a hardback. The publishers were Nelson Doubleday, Inc. and the artist's signature (Daniel Horne) on the cover is dated 1985.

Image of Leela about to attack the DoctorImage of unconscious Leela
Image of Leela in the forest
Image of an unconscious Leela being lifted by Calib (Leslie Schofield) and Tomas (Brendan Price) while the Doctor watches
Image of the Tesh and the Doctor
Image of the Doctor with a paralyized Leela, Tomas (Brendan Price) and an injured Calib (Leslie Schofield)
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Image of Video CoverReleased as "The Face Of Evil", in the UK in episodic format, May 1999 (BBCV6672).
Released in the US and Canada by Warner (E1402) with photomontage cover.

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The working title for this story was the "The Day God Went Mad"
Pamela Salem and Rob Edwards provide two of the voices of Xoanon. Both actors were at the time rehearsing for the following story, "The Robots of Death".

All four episodes exist in color on videotape.

Studio recording in Stage TC3. (11-12, 25-26 October 1976)

Episode 2 - Just before the Doctor is put to the test at the end of the episode, he is taken to the pit and says, "So that's a Horda". The poor little Horda he's talking about is quite obviously being pulled along on a just-visible thin wire.
Episode 3 - The Doctor is trying to enter Xoanon's Sacred Temple, but there is a Tesh standing guard with a blaster. The Doctor and Leela lure him away from the door, where Leela knocks the guard out, sending the blaster spinning off down the corridor behind her. The Doctor looks at the unconscious Tesh, and heads off towards Xoanon. Leela follows, but not before bending straight down and picking up the blaster from right next to the Tesh.
Episode 4 - Though the gun beams rarely come straight out of the nozzle, in one scene this fact is very apparent. At the beginning of the episode, Leela enters the "Sacred Chamber" to rescue the Doctor from Xoanon and shoots at the walls. Her arm moves the gun around quite a bit, but this has no effect on the beam it emits. It continues to flow outwards from the same point, far away from the gun barrel.
Episode 4 - A few scenes later, Leela's mind is taken over by Xoanon and she attempts to shoot the Doctor with one of the Tesh's guns. In avoiding the beam, he jumps up, turns and comes toward the camera while Leela is shooting. Though the beam is supposed to be behind him (Leela is standing farther from the camera than he is), it appears in front of him, because the special effects technicians didn't fix the scene up.
Episode ? - Leela seems to have trouble with Calib's name, as she alternates between pronouncing it "Kallib" and "Kay-lib".
Episode ? - I'd love to hear the writer of this story explain how invisible "creatures" composed purely of energy are capable of leaving footprints...

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