History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes

* StayInTheKitchen: Ben and Polly depart the TARDIS crew and the Doctor says his goodbyes. He tells Ben to go back to the Navy and work his way up through the ranks and become an Admiral. He tells Polly, "look after Ben". Particularly callous since Polly is generally shown to be clever, more competent and ambitious than Ben, and because a big part of Polly's reason for hooking up with the Doctor in the first place was because in her real job she was being treated like an ignorant tea maid by sexist computer engineers. Notably, in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]] from 2010, Sarah Jane notes that she ''did'' hook up with Ben...though it notes ''both'' of them are working in an orphanage in India, suggesting she at least got to do something better with her life than just be "Ben's wife."
* TakeAThirdOption: Rather than simply drive away the Chameleons or cause their deaths, the Doctor simply decides to "open negotiations" with them. At the end of the story, he forces them to leave Earth and release their stolen bodies, but to sweeten the pill agrees to help them with the problem that required them to steal Earth bodies in the first place.

* TheShowMustGoOn: A superb example in part one, when the actor playing Spencer enters a room only for the door handle to come off in his hand. Without missing a beat, he sets it down on a nearby table and carries on. If it weren't for the clunk when he puts it down, it would hardly be noticeable.

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Used to be called {{Impostor Jamie Has No Accent}}.

* TheShowMustGoOn: A superb example in part two, when the actor playing Spencer enters a room only for the door handle to come off in his hand. Without missing a beat, he sets it down on a nearby table and carries on. If it weren't for the clunk when he puts it down, it would hardly be noticeable.

* TheBlank

* MeaningfulName

* NotQuiteDead: The Doctor

* AcquiredErrorAtThePrinters: In the animated version, the year for the newspaper is given as 1967, rather than 1966.

* CallForward: The animated reconstruction includes a whole host of them, as usual, including a Magpie Electricals outlet in the airport, an ad for Waterfield Antiques, Wanted posters for both the Roger Delgado and Sacha Dhawan incarnations of the Master and the by-now traditional hidden "Bad Wolf". This time it's [[spoiler: written backwards on the eye chart]].

* StayInTheKitchen: Ben and Polly depart the TARDIS crew and the Doctor says his goodbyes. He tells Ben to go back to the Navy and work his way up through the ranks and become an Admiral. He tells Polly, "look after Ben". Particularly callous since Polly is generally shown to be clever, more competent and ambitious than Ben, and because a big part of Polly's reason for hooking up with the Doctor in the first place was because in her real job she was being treated like an ignorant tea maid by sexist computer engineers. Notably, in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]] from 2010, Sarah Jane notes that she ''did'' hook up with Ben...though it notes ''both'' of them are working in an orphanage in India, suggesting she at least got to do something better with her life than just be "Ben's wife."

* PluckyGirl: Samantha

* CallForward: The animated reconstruction includes a whole host of them, as usual, including a Magpie Electricals outlet in the airport, an ad for Waterfield Antiques, Wanted posters for both the Roger Delgado and Sacha Dhawan incarnations of the Master and the by-now traditional hidden "Bad Wolf". This time it's [[spoiler]]written backwards on the eye chart[[/spoiler]].

* HiddenInPlainSight: The Chamelions’ brilliant hiding place for their captives? A car park at the airport.

** It also gets played with within the same story. The Chamelion impersonating Meadows recounts details of his host’s life, but says something that isn’t consistent with the records of him. He then clarified that it’s a recent change he hasn’t had time to update.

This story is set to be animated for release in 2020.

* RearrangeTheSong: The [[ThemeTune theme music's]] "spangles" debut in Part 2.

This story is set to be animated for release in 2019.

* BrandishmentBluff: The Doctor threatens to blow everyone to smithereens with a small rubber ball in Episode 2.

* StayInTheKitchen: Ben and Polly depart the TARDIS crew and the Doctor says his goodbyes. He tells Ben to go back to the Navy and work his way up through the ranks and become an Admiral. He tells Polly, "look after Ben". Particularly callous since Polly is generally shown to be clever, more competent and ambitious than Ben, and because a big part of Polly's reason for hooking up with the Doctor in the first place was because in her real job she was being treated like an ignorant teamaid by sexist computer engineers. Notably, in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]] from 2010, Sarah Jane notes that she ''did'' hook up with Ben...though it notes ''both'' of them are working in an orphanage in India, suggesting she at least got to do something better with her life than just be "Ben's wife."

* TheShowMustGoOn: A superb example in part two, when the actor playing Spencer enters a room only for the door handle to come off in his hand. Without missing a beat, he sets it down on a nearby table and carries on. If it weren't for the clunk when he puts it down, it would hardly be noticeable.

* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, the Director states that processed humans die and the transference becomes permanent in four weeks, explaining why the originals of the Chameleon Tours staff are left behind at Gatwick.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gatwick's Commandant thinks the Doctor is nuts at first, but a demonstration by the Doctor featuring one of the Chameleon's freezing pens, and an appeal from Inspector Crossland convince him to cooperate. As the facts bear the Doctor out over the course of the story, the Commandant becomes more and more helpful.

* PutOnABus: Ben and Polly are both abducted early in the story, with both Anneke Wills and Michael appearing in full only in the first two episodes of the story. A pre-filmed departure scene allowed them to return for a quick goodbye at the end of the last episode. The contracts for the two actors actually ran through episode two of the following story, but it was decided to go ahead and write them out of the series.
** Anneke Wills has said in interviews that she was told that Micheal Craze was being written out, but she was given the option of staying on. She opted to leave when he did.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gatwick's Commandant thinks the Doctor is nuts at first, but a demonstration by the Doctor featuring one of the Chameleon's freezing pens, and an appeal from Inspector Crossland convince him to cooperate. As the facts bear the Doctor out over the course of the story, the Commandant becomes more and more helpful.
* YouLookFamiliar: Inspector Crossland (Bernard Kay) looks ''a lot'' like both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade Saladin]] and a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth Dalek-fighting resistance man]]. Not to mention a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace moustached IMC mineral surveyor]].
** Also, Jean Rock (Wanda Ventham, mother of Creator/BenedictCumberbatch) looks a lot like both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Thea Ransome]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Faroon]].

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