Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963] |
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starring: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison![: Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5199NC9Q1ML._SL160_.jpg) |
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| Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014503667221 Format: HiFi Sound, PAL Label: 2 Entertain Video Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 2 Entertain Video Release Date: May 04, 1999 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: 2 Entertain Video Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975 Sales Rank: 4793 |
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| Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: "The Face of Evil" (1976) was the fourth story in the 14th season of Dr Who. Tom Baker was well and truly established in the role of the heroic Time Lord, but the Doctor's popular assistant, Sarah Jane Smith played by Elizabeth Sladen had departed at the end of "The Hand of Fear". This story was inspired by HG Wells' The Time Machine (filmed in 1960) with its future society split in two: one group descended into primitive superstition the other surviving as a technological elite. Adding a crashed spaceship, a computer with multiple personalities and a mysterious carving of the Doctor, this would have been a routine adventure but for one thing; the first appearance of a new assistant played by Louise Jameson. An instant hit with the audience, Leela was a different kind of Dr Who companion. Confident, not adverse to violent self-defence, scantily-clad and unselfconsciously sexy, Leela was part-way between Tarzan's Jane and The Avengers' Emma Peel. Writer Chris Boucher acknowledged The Avengers influence, also noting that he named the character after Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled! Leela stayed with the Doctor until the end of "The Invasion of Time" (1978). --Gary S. Dalkin |
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Rating:  - Great intro for Leela....1: Tom Baker is excellent as the deranged Xoanon 2: Louise makes a brilliant entrance as Leela 3: The horda are cute. 4: The tesh are gits, but likeable ones, with their arm flapping! 5: Tom is great as ever as the Doc too. 6: The tribe have more developed characters than usual. 7: Great comic moments, especially how Leela runs into the TARDIS despite the Doc not really wanting to take her. 8: We for once get ... Read More Rating:  - Bizzare...The first couple of episodes are amazing- brilliant script, top notch acting from all the regualrs and the guest cast and some great directing from Pennant Roberts. Where it all goes wrong is in the last two episdoes. Roberts' flair seems to have died out and become extremelly dull and unadventurous, something that continued in the following three, or four if you include Shada, stories he directed. The script, too, seems to be stuck for ideas and the acting becomes a tad hammy from certain cast members ... Read More Rating: - One of the bestThis is certainly one of my favourite dr who stories. It makes a change from the monster stories and doesn't involve the doctor saving the world. Leela is a babe, much better than Sarah and the skimpy amazon outfit does it for me everytime! I think this is the start of the best dr who era with all of the next few episodes being extremely varied and ambitious. Barnz Rating: - Leela's Debut? - NB!Arriving in a marshy jungle on some distant alien world, the Doc is suprised when the savage natives, the Sevateem, recognise him as ''the Evil One'' despite the fact that he has never seen them before, nor set foot on this very planet. Or has he? On the run from the Sevateem, the Doctor finds that his only ally is Leela, an outcast from the tribe, and he begins to unravel a mystery inextricably linked to his own shady past... A break from the gothic tales that populate Baker's early years, ... Read More Rating: - The Doctor faces past actions in a cracking Baker adventureThe Face of Evil is unusual in many respects. It finally gives us a story that examines the consequences of the Doctor's sometimes irresponsible actions. It gives us Leela, the savage who would just as soon knife someone as trip over and scream. And who can forget those strange cliffhangers? (Part 3 especially) This is a weird and wonderful adventure set on an unnamed planet population by a savage tribe, the Sevateem, and a technologically advanced society who practice mind control, the Tesh. ... Read More |
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