Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (TV Soundtrack)

By: David Ellis, Malcolm Hulke

Narrated by: Frazer Hines, Full Cast, Patrick Troughton

'Inspector Gascoigne was murdered with a ray gun. A weapon that has not yet been developed on this Earth!'

The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to 1960s Earth - materialising on a runway at Gatwick Airport! The Doctor and his friends realise that all is not well when Polly witnesses a murder, and then both she and Ben vanish. The authorities refuse to take the matter seriously - but when Polly reappears, why does she claim not to recognise her friends? Aided by the plucky Samantha Briggs, and helped and hindered by Inspector Crossland of Scotland Yard and the airport Commandant, the Doctor and Jamie piece together a number of clues.

A sequence of mysterious events seems to centre around Chameleon Tours, whose package holidays are designed to entice young people to foreign shores. Just how far-flung are the horizons they offer, and why are none of their passengers coming back? Who are the faceless ones, and what hideously deformed creatures are involved in the operations being conducted at the airport medical centre? The Doctor believes that there's a connection between Chameleon Tours and the odd behaviour of key airport personnel - but in seeking to prove his theory, and rescue Ben and Polly, he becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the identities of thousands of young people.

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Invasion of the Faceless Airport personnel.

Cute little story. Take the plot of Invasion of the body snatchers, set it in a London airport and you got the Faceless Ones. Spaceships disguised as airplanes, evil pilots, and nurses. Great stuff. Sadly this is Ben and Polly's last story. To bad they didn't have much to do in it. They both disappeared by the second episode and only appearing in the last 10 minutes of the last episode. They are important in Doctor Who history. They were the first companions to witness the first time the Doctor Regenerates. That changed everything, and set the stage for the future of Doctor Who. In my opinion they deserved a better last adventure.

Another excellent Troughton story!

Glad to finally experience this partially lost 2nd Doctor classic. An excellent story. Though it is strange that companions Ben and Polly were barely in it considering it was their last story.

Great little story

This is a nice departure from the usual cast of baddies faced by the Doctor and friends. Unless you've seen it before, the story keeps you guessing, but it makes sense (well as much sense as anything from the science fantasy realm of Doctor Who) once all is revealed. A great little story and listening to it makes you feel like you're back in the past experiencing Doctor Who for the first time.