Medical officer in charge of the infirmary at Gatwick Airport in 1967, Nurse Pinto had been abducted and replaced with an alien duplicate - a member of the Chameleon race. They were seeking to gain new physical identities for themselves through the kidnap of thousands of young people travelling on Chameleon Youth Tour charter flights. The infirmary provided an ideal base of operations in which key airport personnel could be duplicated. The real Nurse Pinto was held in a comatose state behind a secret panel in the unit - the fake nurse not wishing her original to be harmed in any way.
The Doctor coerced the Chameleon duplicate of Air Traffic Controller Meadows into revealing the role Pinto and the infirmary played in their scheme. Cornered, she killed a policeman before the Doctor could deactivate the armband on her original. The real nurse awoke, and the body of the duplicate dissolved.
Nurse Pinto then agreed to pretend to be her duplicate in order to help the Doctor get onto the Chameleon spacecraft in orbit above the Earth - pretending that he was a reprocessed Meadows duplicate.
The ruse failed and both were captured, but the Doctor soon overturned the Chameleon plans by turning them against each other.
Played by: Madalena Nicol. Appearances: The Faceless Ones (1967)
- Nicol was born on Christmas Day in Sao Paulo Brazil, grandniece of a former president of the country. She was a singer before going into acting, and once performed for Franklin D Roosevelt at the White House.
- Her career took her first to France and then to England where she lived for 15 years, during which time she made her Doctor Who appearance as well as featuring in The Champions and Dixon of Dock Green. She later taught drama in Texas, and died back home in Sao Paulo in November 1996.
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