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Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Starring: Tom Baker , Louise Jameson
Directed by: Pennant Roberts
Produced by: Philip Hinchcliffe
Written by: Chris Boucher
When the TARDIS arrives on a jungle planet, the Doctor encounters two warring tribes, the Sevateem and the Tesh. The Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon and the Tesh are supposedly keeping Xoanon prisoner...
But why do the Sevateem call the Doctor the Evil One? And what are the invisible creatures in the jungle? The Time Lord, with the help of a girl called Leela, is about to find out.
Item Number: 16511
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/2 hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Closed Captions / Subtitles:
- This Product has English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Special Features:
• Audio Commentary
• Into the Wild
• From the Cutting Room Floor
• Tomorrow's Times - The Fourth Doctor
• Doctor Who Stories: Louise Jameson
• Swap Shop
• Denys Fisher Toys Advert
• Photo Gallery
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Note Subtitles
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
When the TARDIS arrives on a jungle planet, the Doctor encounters two warring tribes, the Sevateem and the Tesh. The Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon and the Tesh are supposedly keeping Xoanon prisoner...
But why do the Sevateem call the Doctor the Evil One? And what are the invisible creatures in the jungle? The Time Lord, with the help of a girl called Leela, is about to find out.
The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a savage tribe called the Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon. The Doctor discovers that Xoanon is in fact a spaceship computer that he tried to repair at some point in his past and inadvertently drove mad by giving it a multiple personality.
It is tended to by another tribe of humanoids, the ascetic Tesh. These are the descendants of the ship's original technicians, while the Sevateem are the descendants of the original survey team. The Doctor, with the help of a Sevateem girl called Leela, manages to gain access to the ship and wipe the additional personalities from the computer, leaving it sane and in proper control once more.
Leela, deciding that she no longer wants to stay on her own planet, pushes her way on board the TARDIS. The Doctor has gained another companion.
| The Doctor | --- | Tom Baker |
| Leela | --- | Louise Jameson |
| Acolyte | --- | Peter Baldock |
| Andor | --- | Victor Lucas |
| Calib | --- | Leslie Schofield |
| Gentek | --- | Michael Elles |
| Guard | --- | Tom Kelly |
| Guard | --- | Brett Forrest |
| Jabel | --- | Leon Eagles |
| Lugo | --- | Lloyd McGuire |
| Neeva | --- | David Garfield |
| Sole | --- | Colin Thomas |
| Tomas | --- | Brendan Price |
| Xoanon | --- | Rob Edwards |
| Xoanon | --- | Pamela Salem |
| Xoanon | --- | Anthony Frieze |
| Xoanon | --- | Roy Herrick |
Directed by Pennant Roberts
Written by Chris Boucher
Produced by Philip Hinchcliffe
Executive Produced by
Original Music by Dudley Simpson
Film Editing by Pam Bosworth, Tariq Anwar
Costume Design by John Bloomfield
First Transmitted
1 - 01/01/1977 18:20
2 - 08/01/1977 18:30
3 - 15/01/1977 18:20
4 - 22/01/1977 18:25
Pamela Salem and Rob Edwards provide two of the voices of Xoanon. Both actors were at the time rehearsing for the following story, The Robots of Death.
Anthony Frieze, credited as one of the voices of Xoanon, was the young winner of a competition to visit the Doctor Who studios. Philip Hinchcliffe arranged for a recording of his voice to be made shouting 'Who am I?' for the climax to Part Three.
This story was actually promoted in Radio Times as the first in a new season of Doctor Who. This was due to the fact that, unusually, the season had broken for five Saturdays at the end of 1976.
