The Dæmons (TV story)

Cast
Doctor Who - Jon Pertwee

Josephine 'Jo' Grant - Katy Manning

The Master - Roger Delgado

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney

Captain Mike Yates - Richard Franklin

Sergeant Benton - John Levene

Miss Hawthorne - Damaris Hayman

Bert the Landlord - Don McKillop

Winstanley - Rollo Gamble

Prof. Horner - Robin Wentworth

Alastair Fergus - David Simeon

Harry - James Snell

Garvin - John Joyce

Dr. Reeves - Eric Hillyard

Tom Girton - Jon Croft

PC Groom - Christopher Wray

Baker's Man - Gerald Taylor

Bok - Stanley Mason

Sgt. Osgood - Alec Linstead

Thorpe - John Owens

Azal - Stephen Thorne

Morris Dancers - The Headington Quarry Men

Jones - Matthew Corbett

Influences
This story owes a few nods to "Quartermass and the Pit," and not just for the idea that stories of devils and demons may be a race memory of horned aliens who conducted a eugenics experiment on early humans. "Devil's End" is essentially the same as "Hobb's End," Hobbs being an old name for the Devil. The use of iron to hold both Azal and Bok at bay is an old folk superstition that is also referred to in the Quartermass story.

The large hoofprints left by Azal as he walks around the viallge of Devil's End and encircles the community with a heat barrier brings to mind a famous and well-documented case. On the morning of 9th February, 1855 the inhabitants of several villages and towns in Devon awoke to find what appeared to be the tracks of a hooved, two-legged creature in the snow, traversing a total distance of one hundred miles, going over rooftops, a 14-foot wall, and even apparently leaping across a two mile wide estuary. Many believed that the Devil himself had walked through Devon the previous night.

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