The Face of Evil
Joe Siegler
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The Face of Evil
This Story: Season 14, Story 4. Production Code 4Q
Overall: Story 89, Episodes 440-443
Airdates: 1 Jan 1977 – 22 Jan 1977
Written by Chris Boucher
Directed by Pennant Roberts
Notes
- The dates on the tweets for Episode 1 that I posted were wrong. It was 1 Jan 1977 (not 20 Nov 1976), I had forgotten the show took a break in December of 1976.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 440 - The Face of Evil 1/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 20 Nov 1976. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 20, 2022
New companion! Leela's first story. Legend is she was created as a bit of "eye candy for the Dads". Worked on me back in the day, and I wasn't a dad. I legit don't remember much pic.twitter.com/NHoG43wmxy
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 440 - The Face of Evil 1/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 20 Nov 1976. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 20, 2022
about her first story here, so I'll get to rediscover it. The Doctor is referred to as "The Evil One" by the tribe here, but we don't know why yet, but his voice is Tom Baker. pic.twitter.com/g57qDPTB2d
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 441 - The Face of Evil 2/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 8 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 21, 2022
The Doctor & Leela return to the camp, trying to avoid being killed, but I'm not sure why actually. The Doctor discovered his face on the mountain in the cliffhanger, which is the pic.twitter.com/0GFEAmwbbG
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 441 - The Face of Evil 2/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 8 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 21, 2022
"why" of why he's here & the main point. Outside that, this story isn't terribly engaging. The villagers seem like every other Who villager we've seen, except for Leela's clothes. pic.twitter.com/RddDTkETTl
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 442 - The Face of Evil 3/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 15 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 22, 2022
The Doctor makes it to a ship where the other "race" was - the Tesh who worship Xoanon. The Doctor realizes they're all humans, but got separated ages ago. The Tesh try to kill pic.twitter.com/Zbn6XA5mGu
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 442 - The Face of Evil 3/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 15 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 22, 2022
the Doctor & Leela, but they fail. While they look funny, I find the Tesh part of the store more interesting than the Sevateem. This ep was def more interesting than the first 2. pic.twitter.com/5ombqI3LFa
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 443 - The Face of Evil 4/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 22 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 23, 2022
The Doctor eventually figures out how to defeat Xoanon, who tries to kill him (even using Leela at one point). Most of the ep is the Doctor trying to stop Xoanon and the Sevateem pic.twitter.com/0UIJNqe9hK
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 443 - The Face of Evil 4/4 (Serial 4Q Story 89) - 22 Jan 1977. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 23, 2022
& the Tesh wandering around the ship. I def see good parts of this story (especially ep3), but overall I never felt like it all came together in a satisfying way. The ending? Meh. pic.twitter.com/PCgwk7lHXi
