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)
The TARDIS arrives at Gatwick airport in 1966 where Polly witnesses a murder
Saturday
15th April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (26 mins)
All clues point to Chameleon Tours, but nobody believes the Doctor's story
Saturday
22nd April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)
With the support of Inspector Crossland, the Doctor pursues his investigations
Saturday
29th April 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)
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)
The Doctor smuggles himself aboard the next Chameleon Tours flight
Saturday
13th May 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)
The Doctor faces the Chameleon's Director who announces his plans to abduct 50,000 humans
Credits
- Dr. WhoPatrick Troughton
- BenMichael Craze
- PollyAnneke Wills
- JamieFrazer Hines
- PolicemanJames Appleby
- CommandantColin Gordon
- MeadowsGeorge Selway
- Jean RockWanda Ventham
- SpencerVictor Winding
- Inspector GascoignePeter Whitaker
- BladeDonald Pickering
- JenkinsChristopher Tranchell
- Nurse PintoMadalena Nicol
- CrosslandBernard Kay
- Samantha BriggsPauline Collins
- Ann DavidsonGilly Fraser
- AnnouncerBrigit Paul
- HeslingtonBarry Wilsher
- R.A.F. PilotMichael Ladkin
- Airport SergeantPeter Roy
- Supt ReynoldsLeonard Trolley