The Faceless Ones: Episode 5
- El episodio se emitió el 6 may 1967
- TV-PG
- 24min
Añade un argumento en tu idiomaJamie finds himself aboard the Chameleons' satellite and meets their Director while the Doctor forces the Chameleon Meadows to tell him the aliens' plans.Jamie finds himself aboard the Chameleons' satellite and meets their Director while the Doctor forces the Chameleon Meadows to tell him the aliens' plans.Jamie finds himself aboard the Chameleons' satellite and meets their Director while the Doctor forces the Chameleon Meadows to tell him the aliens' plans.
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- Jenkins
- (as Christopher Tranchell)
- Chameleon
- (sin acreditar)
- Chameleon
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- Chameleon
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- Passenger
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- Chameleon
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Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThis episode was wiped by the BBC and no copy of it is known to exist.
- PifiasWhen Nurse Pinto asks the Doctor "How much longer, Doctor?" in the animated version, her lips don't move.
- Citas
[last lines]
Nurse Pinto: What do we do now?
Dr. Who: We slip away and see if we can find these young people. Come on.
[the Doctor turns a corner and finds himself facing Captain Blade. He tries to get passed him cheerfully]
Dr. Who: Ah, Captain Blade, we're carrying out your instructions. We're looking for the accommodation centre.
Blade: My instructions don't apply to you. You two won't be needing living space.
This adventure sadly at present cannot be seen in all its glory due to BBC wiping of tapes leading to these being some of the 'lost' classics. Reconstructions available using what is left (all the sound of every Doctor Who episode survive thank goodness, added to still photographs and surviving portions of film) still provide thoroughly impressive sci-fi entertainment.
The adventure involves an alien race stealing humans from 1966 Gatwick Airport in order to use their bodies to replace their own damaged forms.
The contemporary Earth setting was still hardly used at this stage so this was a forerunner of the numerous Quatermass type, 'Earth under attack in the present day' stories which were to follow. It is a great prototype as it has good thrills, action, good intelligent alien threat, great relevance to viewers fears of alien attack on their own world with sufficient realism. The writing by Malcolm Hulke (the first of his great writing contributions) and David Ellis, acting by the whole cast and direction from Gerry Mill are all of high quality and the characters are good.
The lovely extra companion for this adventure, Samantha played by future film star Pauline Collins, works well. It is sad though that Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben (Michael Craze) are sidelined in their last adventure. Polly had not quite maintained her feisty early form and had been turned into more of a 'screamer' but she was still a good companion and Ben was a great, tough companion throughout his time.
This story is very strong all round with aliens which are well realised and cleverly characterised. The only substantial flaw is two snippets of dialogue in episode 5 regarding how many people are missing. A captured villain reveals 50,000 young people are to be taken which is highly unbelievable without it being very noticeable to many relatives. We could imagine this plan, which would bring about huge attention, is in the early stages except he then compounds his comment by saying it is too late to save the 50,000 young people. I suppose if the events we see are part of a worldwide operation it is remotely possible a rapid set of disappearances are only starting to come to light but this revelation is hard to accept. As a result I mark that otherwise superb episode down to 7/10 but the rest of the adventure is brilliant.
My Ratings: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 - 10/10, Episode 5 - 7/10
Overall: 9.5/10
- A_Kind_Of_CineMagic
- 28 ago 2014
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