The then newly opened Gatwick Airport in London is the excellent setting for an unusual 1967 take over of the Human form on Earth, as the alien chameleons begin their abduction plans on young globe-trotting tourists, though soon encountering the second incarnation of the Doctor and his companions, who fight back against those unusual but deadly The Faceless Ones. This popular but mostly episode-lost early story from the Patrick Troughton era, written by David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke, gets a fully-animated new lease of life, available from BBC Studios this month (20th March, 2020)
Behind the scenes of the original B/W story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loQ8IBdV-lU
DVD release info:
The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble upon an alien plot, centring upon the mysterious ‘Chameleon Tours’ - a low-price holiday company, whose young passengers have been vanishing in unexplained circumstances. With the help of Scotland Yard and the airport staff, the Doctor investigates further, but it isn’t long before his own friends start disappearing too.
What is happening to the passengers of Chameleon Tours? Where are the company’s planes really going? Can the Doctor unravel the mystery of Chameleon Tours before it’s too late?
Most of the BBC’s original 1967 master recordings for ‘The Faceless Ones’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this lost classic.
INCLUDES:
• Colour Animated Episodes 1-6*
• Black & White Animated Episodes 1-6*
• The Original Episodes 1 & 3*
• Telesnap Reconstructions of Original Episodes 2, 4, 5 & 6*
• Audio commentaries (Animated Episodes 4, 5 & 6, plus Original Episodes 1 & 3)
• Face to Face with the Faceless Ones (Making of)
• Stock Footage from Original Production
• Surviving Film Fragments
• Trailer – Fury from the Deep
• PDFs
*With Remastered Audio by Mark Ayres
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines, Pauline Collins, Michael Craze, Colin Gordon, Wanda Ventham, Bernard Kay, Donald Pickering, Christopher Tranchell and Victor Winding
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMAxBFJBvE
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2a2tmKTnU
More info: http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-faceless-ones-animation-release-date-92571.htm
Get the DVD edition here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Faceless-Ones-DVD/dp/B07SGQQFP2/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582816933&sr=8-1
Get the Blu-ray steel book here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Faceless-Ones-Blu-ray/dp/B07SKVPN1L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LYWI9YWOI9RI&keywords=the+faceless+ones+blu+ray&qid=1582816933&sprefix=the+faceless+ones%2Caps%2C425&sr=8-1
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