The Faceless Ones - Episode 3

Darn it, no Polly or Ben in this episode! This was their last story, and since this is the last remaining episode of the story, we'll never see them again. What a shame, they were really fun companions. Unfortunately, a lot of their episodes are missing, but what we do have shows their great chemistry and fun. Goodbye, Polly and Ben, you were enjoyed. This episode furthers the story a bit, but not too fast. Inspector Crossland looked familiar to me, until I finally placed him at the end of the episode: he was in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". Silly me. Colin Gordon does a great job portraying the skepticism and frustration of the airport's Commandant. Samantha Briggs, played by Pauline Collins, has long been rumored to have been offered to become a companion on the series. But she turned it down. It's hard to tell from this episode, where she doesn't get a lot to do, how she would have been. She didn't make all that much of an impression on me from this episode, to be honest. Oh, well, one of those what-might-have-beens. And from what I read from the Restoration Team's website, they had to put a lot of work into this one, because of damaged or missing film. I noticed it because of a number of shots which appeared to be zoom-ins, which turns out to be done to cover the missing or damaged frames. Well done, it works. Next up, the only surviving episode of "The Evil of the Daleks", in which the Doctor encounters some old enemies, and finds a new friend...