| Doctor Who The Face of Evil [VHS] [1963] | ![Doctor Who The Face of Evil [VHS] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5199NC9Q1ML._SL500_.jpg) | Actors: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson
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Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5014503667221
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975
Release Date: May 4, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"The Face of Evil" (1976) was the fourth story in the 14th season of Dr Who. Tom Baker was well and truly established in the role of the heroic Time Lord, but the Doctor's popular assistant, Sarah Jane Smith played by Elizabeth Sladen had departed at the end of "The Hand of Fear". This story was inspired by HG Wells' The Time Machine (filmed in 1960) with its future society split in two: one group descended into primitive superstition the other surviving as a technological elite. Adding a crashed spaceship, a computer with multiple personalities and a mysterious carving of the Doctor, this would have been a routine adventure but for one thing; the first appearance of a new assistant played by Louise Jameson. An instant hit with the audience, Leela was a different kind of Dr Who companion. Confident, not adverse to violent self-defence, scantily-clad and unselfconsciously sexy, Leela was part-way between Tarzan's Jane and The Avengers' Emma Peel. Writer Chris Boucher acknowledged The Avengers influence, also noting that he named the character after Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled! Leela stayed with the Doctor until the end of "The Invasion of Time" (1978). --Gary S. Dalkin
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 with proof you don't need to believe July 8, 2010
James Richardson (UK)
story 7/10
also contains an interview with Louise Jameson on Swap Shop.
This story is intelligent and is a rewarding watch.
Leela makes an impression from the start and the script is bursting with great one liners.
 Revenge of the Sevateem; sort of April 19, 2009
Captain Pugwash (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This mid 70s Tom Baker story is memorable for being the one that introduced leather-clad savage 'Leela'; part of the tribe of the Sevateem who were originally astronauts, The Doctor saves Leela's life and she becomes his bondsman, travelling with him for the next two seasons before settling on Gallifrey with a guard captain. Anyway, I digress; the story has an intriguing premise, featuring an insane computer which disturbingly has The Doctor's identity...The remainder of the story is fairly standard mid-70s Doctor Who fare but Tom Baker is on fine form and the interplay between him and the computer is pretty good too.
I would have given this 4 stars but accidentally clicked on five so that explains why the review is slightly at odds with the rating!
Great intro for Leela.... August 23, 2007
big mad doctor who guy (Poole, Dorset)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1: Tom Baker is excellent as the deranged Xoanon
2: Louise makes a brilliant entrance as Leela
3: The horda are cute.
4: The tesh are gits, but likeable ones, with their arm flapping!
5: Tom is great as ever as the Doc too.
6: The tribe have more developed characters than usual.
7: Great comic moments, especially how Leela runs into the TARDIS despite the Doc not really wanting to take her.
8: We for once get a sizeable chunk of story to see whats happened after the enemy has been thwarted, which is a nice change.
9: the staue looks impressive.
10: Good actual 25 min eps for a change!
Need I go on?
One of the best October 24, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is certainly one of my favourite dr who stories. It makes a change from the monster stories and doesn't involve the doctor saving the world. Leela is a babe, much better than Sarah and the skimpy amazon outfit does it for me everytime! I think this is the start of the best dr who era with all of the next few episodes being extremely varied and ambitious. Barnz
Leela's Debut? - NB! July 26, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Arriving in a marshy jungle on some distant alien world, the Doc is suprised when the savage natives, the Sevateem, recognise him as ''the Evil One'' despite the fact that he has never seen them before, nor set foot on this very planet. Or has he? On the run from the Sevateem, the Doctor finds that his only ally is Leela, an outcast from the tribe, and he begins to unravel a mystery inextricably linked to his own shady past...A break from the gothic tales that populate Baker's early years, The Face Of Evil is blessed with an intelligent and thought-provoking, if somewhat slow, script and some brill performances. Baker's at his boyish best and Louise Jameson makes nice her debut as Leela, although she isn't as good as in her next story - bloody masterpiece The Robots Of Death. Speaking of that tale, it is worth mentioning that Face has often been overlooked in favour of Robots, Talons or The Deadly Assassin, but trust me, it's a worthy purchase. James
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