The Dæmons (TV story)

Synopsis
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Plot
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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
 * Olive 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

Crew

 * Assistant Floor Manager - Sue Hedden
 * Costumes - Barbara Lane
 * Designer - Roger Ford
 * Fight Arranger - Peter Diamond
 * Film Cameraman - Fred Hamilton
 * Film Editor - Chris Wimble
 * Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
 * Make-Up - Jan Harrison
 * Producer - Barry Letts
 * Production Assistant - Peter Grimwade
 * Script Editor - Terrance Dicks
 * Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
 * Studio Lighting - Tony Millier
 * Studio Sound - Ralph Walton
 * Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Peter Day

Story Notes

 * The shot of the exploding helicopter is actually a scene taken from James Bond film From Russia With Love.


 * The Master's summoning phrases for Azal is 'Mary had a little lamb' backwards.


 * 'Guy Leopold' (the writer), is a pen name for Robert Sloman and Barry Letts.

Ratings
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Myths
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Influences

 * This story makes a few nods towards Quatermass 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, the fictitious London setting of the earlier story, Hob 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 Quatermass story. (See also DW: Image of the Fendahl.)


 * The large hoofprints left by Azal as he walks around the village 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.

Location Filming
Aldbourne, Wiltshire

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * Various pronunciations of 'Dæmons', 'Dæmos' (and all other permutations) is used throughout the story.

Continuity

 * The Doctor uses a few lines of a Venusian lullaby which is heard in full during The Curse of Peladon.


 * The Master sends his TARDIS to the Devil's End crypt at the close of The Face of the Enemy.


 * The Master is captured by UNIT forces at the conclusion of this story and is next seen in prison in The Sea Devils.


 * The Master retrieves his TARDIS from the debris of the church in The Eight Doctors.


 * A Daemon carcass is used by the Faction Paradox as a spaceship in Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek).


 * Daemos in mentioned in The Satan Pit.

DVD, Video and Other Releases
Video Releases
 * The Dæmons was released on VHS in the UK and Australia in 1993, this was a recolourised version of the story.

Target Novelisations / Script Books

 * The Daemons was published in 1974 as Doctor Who and the Dæmons By Barry Letts.
 * The Dæmons was also released by Titan Books as a script book in the early 1990s.