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the daemons

story 59 : season 8 : serial JJJ : 5 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Guy Leopold
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Roger Ford

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); John Levene (Sergeant Benton); Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates); Roger Delgado (The Master); Damaris Hayman (Miss Olive Hawthorne); Stephen Thorne (Azal); David Simeon (Alastair Fergus); Robin Wentworth (Prof. Horner); Rollo Gamble (Winstanley); Stanley Mason (Bok); Don McKillop (Bert the Landlord); James Snell (Harry); John Joyce (Garvin); Eric Hillyard (Dr. Reeves); Jon Croft (Tom Girton); Christopher Wray (PC Groom); Gerald Taylor (Bakers Man); Alec Linstead (Sgt. Osgood); John Owens (Thorpe); The Headington Quarry Men (Morris Dancers); Matthew Corbett (Jones);

crew information

Sue Hedden (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Lane (Costumes); Peter Diamond (Fight Arranger); Fred Hamilton (Film Cameraman); Chris Wimble (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jan Harrison (Make-Up); Peter Grimwade (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Tony Millier (Studio Lighting); Ralph Walton (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Peter Day (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 22 May 1971 at 18:15 25'05" 9.2mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
2 Episode Two 29 May 1971 at 18:10 24'20" 8.0mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
3 Episode Three 5 June 1971 at 18:10 24'27" 8.1mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
4 Episode Four 12 June 1971 at 18:10 24'25" 8.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
16mm telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
5 Episode Five 19 June 1971 at 18:10 24'04" 8.3mil 16mm b/w telerecording
NTSC U-Matic (colour)
PAL D3 colour restoration
  1. Episode One
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording (from omnibus)
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
  2. Episode Two
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording (from omnibus)
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
  3. Episode Three
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording (from omnibus)
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording (from omnibus)
  5. Episode Five
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Copy of Domestic USA recording (from omnibus)
    » New tape made using the telerecording and NTSC colour source

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Dæmons
Written by: Barry Letts
Number 015 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1974 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
1974 Published by Unieboek B.V. Bussum, The Netherlands in paperback
Translated into Dutch by Wim Hohage
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 9 026 98109 0
17 October 1974 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10444 7
1975 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10444 7
24 January 1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 11332 2
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
1983 Published by Editorial Presença, Portugal in paperback
Translated into Portugese by Eduardo Nogueira & Conceição Jardim
With cover artwork by: Rui Ligeiro
21 October 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11332 2

plot synopsis

The Devil's Hump barrow is due to be opened by an archaeologist live on BBC3, and as a result, psionic alien forces are unleashed and the village of Devil's End becomes trapped inside a vast force field dome, much to the delight of the new vicar, Reverend Magister, in reality the Master. He is trying to summon up Azal, last of the Daemons, to claim the right to inherit his powers, by using a black magic coven in the Church's crypt. With the creature being more than capable of destroying the world, the Doctor has to try and stop the Master

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