Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 8 April 1967 - 13 May 1967
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd
Associate Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Malcolm Hulke, David Ellis
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

DIRECTION
Director: Gerry Mill

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Camera: Tony Imi

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Chris Hayden

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Gordon Mackie
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James
Costumes: Daphne Dare, Sandra Reid

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Geoffrey Kirkland

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Richard Brooks
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Marlborough

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
James Appleby (policeman)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
George Selway (George Meadows)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Peter Whitaker (Inspector Gascoigne)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
George Selway (George Meadows)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins)
Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto)
Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland)
Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs)
Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson)
Brigit Paul (announcer)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
George Selway (George Meadows)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland)
Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs)
Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson)
Barry Wilsher (Heslington)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins)
Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto)
Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland)
Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs)
Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson)
Brigit Paul (announcer)
Barry Wilsher (Heslington)
Michael Ladkin (RAF pilot)

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
George Selway (George Meadows)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins)
Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto)
Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland)
Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs)
Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson)
Barry Wilsher (Heslington)

Episode 6
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Colin Gordon (Commandant)
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock)
Victor Windling (Spencer)
Donald Pickering (Captain Blade)
Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins)
Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto)
Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland)
Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs)
Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson)
Barry Wilsher (Heslington)
Leonard Trolley (Superintendant Reynolds)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Robin Dawson, Barry Dupre, Pat Lecleve, Ron Pearce (chameleons)
Roy Curtis, Roger Jacombs, Vic Taylor (ATC technicians)
Kedd Fenton, Crawford Lyle, Taggart Rushton, Geoffrey Witherick (policemen)
Peter Roy (airport police sergeant)
Robin Dawson, Peter Blair Stewart (airport policemen)
Elizabeth Smith (double for Nurse Pinto)
Terence Denville (double for Blade)
Robin Burns, Charles Erskin (workmen)
John Evans, Ann Gabriel, Tony Lang, Steve Pokol, Audrey Searl, Audrey Stewart (airport personnel in plane)
Ann Barber, Michelle Barry, Nigel Bernard, Mike Briton, Joy Burnett, Penelope Daiton, John Dickinson, Sandy Duke, Gloria Forster, Maria Hauffner, Pearl Hawkes, Pamela Hinton, James Holbrook, Richard Kitteridge, Joanna Lawrence, Gary Leaman, Tony Mead, Jean Myers, Barry Noble, Lisa Noble, Alan Norburn, Ralph Rankinson, Joanna Robins, David Seaforth, Don Simons, Tina Simons, Marjorie Summerville, Donald Sinclair, Basil Tang, Denise Testar, Graham Tonbridge, Valerie Vyner, George Wilder (passengers)

PLOT SUMMARY

In Gatwick Aiport, 1966, Polly witnesses a murder in a hangar and is abducted by the killer, a represnetative of Chameleon Tours. After Ben also vanishes, The Doctor and Jamie are left to work out the mysteries - including the extraordinary number of people who have vanished while on a Chameleon tour...

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1967
March
10: UK - location filming takes place
13: UK - location filming takes place
14: UK - location filming takes place
15: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3A/B
16: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3A/B
17: UK - location filming takes place

April
1: UK - studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
8: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
11: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3A
15: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
22: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
29: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London

May
6: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
13: UK - Episode 6 television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Chameleons

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.75-86
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.121-124
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

airports, aliens, doppelgangers, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009