Delgado's Disguise

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Yes, it's time for me to pop up after another few months and ask another question about something everyone else seems to know, but...

After years of reading in various books/guides/magazines the comical effect of the Master's rubber mask in "Terror of the Auton" magically also altering his height, I've watched it... and can't see it at all.

I seem to remember it relates the the telephone repairman disguise, but you only ever see this man standing next to Yates, and I don't recall Delgado standing next to Yates at any other point and neither was the phone man particularly obviously tall/short.

I'd alsways believed there was a shot where he rips of his mask and is suddenly noticeably taller or something like that, but alas no.

[Rob McCow]

I thought it was the man at the end of Terror of the Autons, when he makes Farrell wear a Delgado mask (that he happened to have handy). Farrell looked like he was smalle than Delgado earlier in the story... maybe!

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Hmm, even there it didn't seem particularly obvious though. Oh well, I was hoping for a nice comedy moment too.

[Thasc]

Hmmm all I know is that the Telephone Engineer was actually played by a different actor, dunno why though seemed a bit daft to me, may as well have had Roger Delgado playing the role in the first place