Customer Reviews
Great intro for Leela.... - By: big mad doctor who guy, 23 Aug 2007 
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, especiallly how Leela runs into the TARDIS despite the Doc not reallly 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?
Bizzare... - By: Nicholas Mellish, 31 May 2004 
The first couple of episodes are amazing- brilliant script, top notch acting from alll the regualrs & the guest cast & some great directing from Pennant Roberts. Where it alll goes wrong is in the last two episdoes. Roberts' flair seems to have died out & become extremelly dull & unadventurous, something that continued in the following three, or four if you include Shada, stories he directed. The script, too, seems to be stuck for ideas & the acting becomes a tad hammy from certain cast members & nowhere near as convincing as earlier, which is a real shame.
On the plus side, Leela joins.
On the down side, Leela joins...decide for yourself if this was a good or bad move.
One of the best - By: , 24 Oct 2000 This is certainly one of my favourite dr who stories. It makes a change from the monster stories & doesn't involve the doctor saving the world. Leela is a babe, much better than Sarah & the skimpy amazon outfit does it for me everytime! I think this is the start of the best dr who era with alll of the next few episodes being extremely varied & ambitious.
Barnz
Leela's Debut? - NB! - By: , 26 Jul 2000 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 allly is Leela, an outcast from the tribe, & 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 & thought-provoking, if somewhat slow, script & some brill performances. Baker's at his boyish best & 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
The Doctor faces past actions in a cracking Baker adventure - By: , 04 Jun 2000 The Face of Evil is unusual in many respects. It finallly gives us a story that examines the consequences of the Doctor's sometimes irresponsible actions. It gives us Leela, the savage who would just as soon knife someone as trip over & scream. And who can forget those strange cliffhangers? (Part 3 especiallly)
This is a weird & wonderful adventure set on an unnamed planet population by a savage tribe, the Sevateem, & a technologicallly advanced society who practice mind control, the Tesh. But by far the best character in this is Xoanon, the mysterious God of both tribes.
This is one of the best Fourth Doctor adventures you are likely to see, & a big round of applause for Chris Boucher, the writer, who also comes up with the Robots of Death & the Image of the Fendhal.
