Doctor Who: Face of Evil (1977)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 January 1977 - 22 January 1977
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: Chris D'Oyly-John

SCRIPT
Script: Chris Boucher
Story Editors: Robert Holmes

DIRECTION
Director: Pennant Roberts

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: John McGlashan

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Pam Bosworth, Tariq Anwar

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Studio Sound: Colin Dixon
Film Sound: Stan Nightingale
Special Sound: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Ann Ailes
Costumes: John Bloomfield

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Mat Irvine
Title Sequence: Bernard Lodge

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Austin Ruddy

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Marion McDougall
Assistant Floor Manager: Linda Graeme

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh

CAST
Tom Baker (The Doctor)
Susan Jameson (Leela)
Leslie Schofield (Calib)
Victor Lucas (Andor)
Brendan Price (Tomas)
Colin Thomas (Sole)
David Garfield (Neeva)
Lloyd Mcguire (Lugo)
Tom Kelly, Brett Forrest (guards)
Leon Eagles (Jabel)
Mike Elles (Gentek)
Peter Baldock (acolyte)
Tom Baker, Rob Edwards, Pamela Salem, Anthony Frieze, Roy Herrick (voices of Xoanon)
Alan Charles (crowd voices)
David Nichol, Harry Fielder (assassins)
Tim Craven (Tesh in protective suit - uncredited)
Stuart Fell, Ernie Goodyear, Robert Hastings, Tom Knox, David Ludwig, Tom Mccabe (acolytes - uncredited)
Andy Dempsey, Ian Munro, John Sarbutt (Lugo's warriors - uncredited)
Alan Harris, Michael Reynal (council members - uncredited)
Paul Barton, John Bryant, Mike Mungarvan, Peter Roy (guards - uncredited)
Barbara Bermel, Peter Dean, Alan Troy, Terry Walsh (Sevateem - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Doctor is caught between two warring tribes, the Sevateem and the Tesh. Both tribes are descendants of the occupants of a spaceship that landed years before. The Doctor had attempted to fix the spaceship's computer on a previous visit and finds that the computer and his image are being worshipped as Gods. On conclusion, the savage Sevateem girl Leela forces her way into the TARDIS and insists The Doctor takes her with him.

After Baker's pleas to be allowed to travel alone went unheeded, the idea that he would have a different companion every story was mooted but ultimately rejected. Instead the savage Leela was introduced in this rather ordinary space adventure. The cutesy names and the Doctor's previous involvement give no depth to a basic two warring tribes plot that was used numerous times before and since.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1977
January
1: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
8: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
15: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
22: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Day God Went Mad - working title
The Day That God Went Mad - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.314-317
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009