A murder mystery set in space finds the Doctor and Leela playing Agatha Christie. It would be the second outing for Leela, but would play up its mystery angle to great effect. I said that Face of Evil gets overshadowed by better stories and this is one of them. The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) materialize on board a massive sandminer vehicle combing an alien world for precious minerals. The miner is run by a small human crew, Commander Uvanov (Russell Hunter), Toos (Pamela Salem), Task (David Bailie), Poul (David Collings), Borg (David Croucher), Zilda (Tannie Rogers), Chub (Rob Edwards), and Cass (Tariq Yunus), with the aid of numerous robots split into three classes: Dums, Vocs...
- 3/14/2012
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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