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Doctor Who The Faceless Ones TV Story

The Faceless Ones Synopsis

The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth – materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal the personalities of young human beings. The Chameleons: faceless aliens who have lost their very identities following a disaster on their home world. Now they have infiltrated the airport, setting up the bogus Chameleon Tours in order to kidnap passengers and take over their very identities. As the Doctor and his companions become mixed up in the alien machinations, it soon becomes difficult for them to distinguish friends from enemies…

Story Order

  • Story 35 from Doctor Who
  • Story 8 of 9 from Season 4

Episodes

Saturday
8th April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (4 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 1

The TARDIS arrives at Gatwick airport in 1966 where Polly witnesses a murder

Saturday
15th April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (26 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 2

All clues point to Chameleon Tours, but nobody believes the Doctor's story

Saturday
22nd April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 3

With the support of Inspector Crossland, the Doctor pursues his investigations

Saturday
29th April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 4

An RAF fighter follows the Chameleon plane but it is shot down whilst the plane heads into space

Saturday
6th May 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 5

The Doctor smuggles himself aboard the next Chameleon Tours flight

Saturday
13th May 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones - Episode 6

The Doctor faces the Chameleon's Director who announces his plans to abduct 50,000 humans

Credits

The Faceless Ones

Credits
  • Writer David Ellis
  • Writer Malcolm Hulke
  • Director Gerry Mill
  • Producer Innes Lloyd
  • Script Editor Gerry Davis
  • Dr. Who Patrick Troughton
  • Ben Michael Craze
  • Polly Anneke Wills
  • Jamie Frazer Hines
  • Policeman James Appleby
  • Commandant Colin Gordon
  • Meadows George Selway
  • Jean Rock Wanda Ventham
  • Spencer Victor Winding
  • Inspector Gascoigne Peter Whitaker
  • Blade Donald Pickering
  • Jenkins Christopher Tranchell
  • Nurse Pinto Madalena Nicol
  • Crossland Bernard Kay
  • Samantha Briggs Pauline Collins
  • Ann Davidson Gilly Fraser
  • Announcer Brigit Paul
  • Heslington Barry Wilsher
  • R.A.F. Pilot Michael Ladkin
  • Airport Sergeant Peter Roy
  • Supt Reynolds Leonard Trolley