Saturday, February 21, 2004

The Faceless Ones - Episode 1

Today we get our first look at the new main titles, featuring Patrick Troughton's features. Still using the Hartnell version of the theme music, though. And this episode is VidFIREd! Yay! Especially after last time's very poor quality "Moonbase" episode, this looks especially excellent. The Restoration Team certainly does a tremendous job cleaning up these 30 to 40 year old episodes. It's also our first story that has Malcolm Hulke involved in the writing. He'll be back later. This story also features one of the Number 2's from "The Prisoner". Captain Blade is a much more menacing villain than our last one, Zaroff from "The Underwater Menace". Much better to play it subtly than over-the-top. The glimpses we get of the weird creature are effective. Also very well done is the location work at Gatwick Airport. And the guy at immigration who gives the Doctor and Jamie trouble about their passports really reminds me of Rimmer from "Red Dwarf". It isn't him, but it sure is reminiscent of Chris Barrie. Sadly, this story is incomplete, so next time we get Episode 3, and that's it for "The Faceless Ones".

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