Doctor Who 8x21

Directed by Christopher Barry

Roger Delgado as The Master • Richard Franklin as Mike Yates • John Levene as Sergeant Benton • Damaris Hayman as Miss Hawthorne • Don McKillop as Bert the Landlord

Earth, the near future. When an archaological dig at the village of Devil's End goes disastrously wrong, an ancient power begins to revive. Can even the Doctor withstand the power of the Daemons? And just what is the local vicar up to in his spare time?

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1. "An archaeological 'dig' is planned near the village of Devil's End.

2. "Jo and the Doctor visit the dig and get caught up in a series of terrifying events."

3. This episode was first shown on 22 May 1971 and was seen by 9.8 million viewers.

4. "The village of Devil's End is an eerie place," says the script.

5. The village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire is not such an eerie place, but night-shooting can work wonders...

6. Say hello to Noakes.

7. That sinister moving object Was actually

8. The lovely Noakes was scripted to arch her back and spit at it ,

9. but she just wouldn't do it, even when shown several dogs.

10. The rain was supplied by Ramsbury Fire Brigade.

11. Later in 1971, the cat visited Blue Peter and met another Noakes,

12. who got her Doctor Who pedigree a bit confused: He said she "specialised in scaring a race of midget people"

13. Casting the runes is a method of divination using wooden pellets carved with the ancient Teutonic alphabet.

14. Miss Hawthorne's pendant is an ankh,

15. "We're supposed to be on the air in twelve-and-a-half minutes," adds Fergus in the script.

16. This was scripted as a better-natured exchange: The Doctor laughs and Jo joins in.

17. This scene was the first part of the serial to be filmed, on 18 April 1971.

18. They are in a hut at Membury Airfield in Berkshire,

19. a former RAF station which was leased at the time by the Campbell Aircraft Company.

20. Jon Pertwee and producer Barry Letts were especially interested in the company's autogyros,

21. There's an effects man in the footwell, steering blind.

22. Watch the horn. The only thing happening here is a dubbed-on sound effect,

23. whereas the close-up shows a physical effect created with an air pump.

24. 'The Dæmons' began life as a single scene between Mike Yates and Jo Grant,

25. written by Barry Letts as an audition piece for actresses seeking the role of Jo.

26. It was developed into a scene in Episode 4, so we'll save full details of it till then.

27. But the key element was the climax: An appearance by the Devil.

28. In his first two years, Jon Pertwee's Doctor often wore a traditional scientist's white coat.

29. "It obviously rings a large and disturbing bell," says the script.

30. David Simeon

31. Aldbourne, remember, was the Wiltshire location for Devil's End.

32. The script describes "a mixture of crypt and cave:

33. "Alcoves in the walls contain tableaux of hooded figures up to no good".

34. The call for hush was an unscripted embellishment.

35. The Devil's Dyke became his Hump.

36. In the nursery rhyme, the pie-eating Little Jack Horner

37. says "What a good boy am I!" After extracting his plummy thumb.

38. In 1971, more than 80% of television viewers were still watching in black-and-white.

39. The University of Cambridge may have presided over many a fiasco,

40. but in the script this particular one happened in 1959, not 1939.

41. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), Detective (1969), and The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder (1969).

42. Sutton Hoo, of course, was the Suffolk burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king with his treasures, discovered in 1939.

43. The Bronze Age lasted from 2,500 to 800 BC, between the Stone and Iron Ages.

44. Beltane is a pagan fire festival which marks the approach of summer and celebrates the coming time of fertility.

45. Hallowe'en, of course, is the diametrically opposite fire festival on 31 October.

46. "Who is?" asks Jo. "That creep of an interviewer?"

47. Miss Hawthorne was first written as a posher white witch: Lady Olivia Featherstone.

48. Director Christopher Barry saw the role as a "daffy" rural spinster, and wanted her played for comedy.

49. But Damaris Hayman, the actress, believed in the occult and felt that he was patronising the character.

50. She pointed out that Miss Hawthorne must have some genuine powers, because she foretells what will happen.

51. So she wanted to play the part straight, not for laughs,

52. and when the dispute was taken to the producer, he adjudicated in her favour.

53. The Talisman of Mercury is part of the Key of Solomon in cabalistic magic,

54. and is used to summon spirits and acquire secret knowledge.

55. The "mano cornuto" gesture is used by occultists to ward off supernatural evil.

56. The script calls for the Doctor to move "as if Old Nick himself were after him".

57. Her scripted lines can now be heard in the background here.

58. The title riffs on the BBC chat show, Late Night Line-Up.

59. That's the studio lights reflecting off the television screen.

60. He's played by Carlisle-born Don McKillop (1929-2005),

61. who was then best known as one of the work colleagues of The Likely Lads (1964-6).

62. He was later the regular police sergeant in Sutherland's Law (1972-3).

63. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1980s,

64. notably appearing as the strawberry-growing bishop to Antony Sher's Richard III (1984-6).

65. His last role was the vicar in the Jeremy Brett version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988).

66. Christopher Barry was initially attracted to the serial because of his personal interest in archaeology.

67. He also felt that witchcraft and popular science made an intriguing juxtaposition.

68. This was a sequence which especially interested him:

69. He liked how the ordinariness of the English village setting, which made for a sense of immediacy,

70. was set against the unexpectedness of events like a village bobby trying to brain a daffy spinster.

71. Note how the two actors synchronise their arm movements perfectly.

72. This scene was shot in the street by Aldbourne village green on the morning of 22 April 1971.

73. It was a late start at 11 a. M: These two actors were fully rested,

74. In consequence, only this sequence was completed before lunch, when the unit returned to the barrow.

75. The signpost is turned using a rope wound onto a drum out of shot on the right.

76. That wasn't the first attempt: Previously, the rope broke, so the directions remained stubbornly accurate.

77. Garvin is played by John Joyce (1939-2009).

78. He began his acting career as an extra, including a 1965 Doctor Who, 'The Myth Makers'.

79. He later played the role of Stephen Taylor in Dixon of Dock Green (1969).

80. He worked for Christopher Barry again in Z Cars (1971) And The Onedin Line (1977).

81. The scene was scripted to begin with Benton trying to appease Mavis on the phone.

82. "The Brigadier gives him a look, but decides to let it pass."

83. Corned beef, a form of canned, cured meat, was a staple of army field rations in the twentieth century.

84. whose book, Honest to God (1963), attempted to reconcile Christian theology with secularism.

85. In contrast, traditional Christianity emphasises metaphysical factors above material ones.

86. Rationalism and existentialism were, however, the philosophical foundation of Bishop Robinson's Honest to God.

87. This was shot well before sunset on the afternoon on 19 April, the first day on location.

88. This was unscripted business,

89. Alistair Fergus was drawn, very loosely, from a calmer, more Icelandic Scotsman, Magnus Magnusson (1929-2007).

90. Magnusson presented the BBC-2 archaeological documentary series, Chronicle (1966-91).

91. In 1968-70, Chronicle sponsored an excavation at Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.

92. Silbury is a vast Bronze Age earthwork,

93. and, like the Devil's Hump, it had been previously excavated

94. This was the inspiration for the television coverage of Professor Horner's excavation:

95. The script explicitly refers to the bustle and cameras of the Silbury dig.

96. The Silbury archaeologist was the somewhat plummier Professor Richard Atkinson (1920-94).

97. Next up is a real BBC commentator:

98. Bill McLaren (1923-2010).

99. It was scripted as a football match, but the dialogue was revised when they acquired rugby footage instead.

100. Twickenham Stadium is the home of the Rugby Football Union.

101. It's a change from "We don't like strangers 'ere",

102. It is in fact all Jon Pertwee's own hair.

103. In the script, "Girton lurches menacingly towards the Doctor, who moves him aside".

104. Barry Letts took over as Doctor Who's producer in the autumn of 1969.

105. A year later, having worked himself into the job, he wanted to write a Doctor Who serial himself,

106. The book was filmed in 1968, with Charles Gray as the cult leader.

107. The film had been delayed in development for five years, because Satanism was such a sensitive subject;

108. so when Letts suggested his idea to script editor Terrance Dicks in 1970, he also expressed some doubts

109. about whether making a Doctor Who serial about black magic was really a feasible proposition.

110. Partly this was because the theme might not be considered suitable for a family audience,

111. but also because they didn't want to spread superstitious ideas about the supernatural.

112. The script refers to "a charming smile glazed onto his face".

113. Letts's concerns meant setting out the story's philosophical premise with care:

114. It had to be founded strictly on the Doctor's scientific world-view - hence his earlier discussion with Jo.

115. So this is something that only looks like Satanism:

116. The phenomena are real, but black magic is the wrong explanation for them.

117. Don't try it at home, but even if you do, it won't conjure up the Devil

118. There are a few genuine elements, but it's a mainly an invented version of the ritual,

119. which mimics things like the progressive syllabic accretions of genuine magic incantations.

120. Here's some more "day for night" shooting.

121. Christopher Barry was aware that 'The Dæmons' had similarities with Quatermass and the Pit (1958-9),

122. The action is based around an archaeological dig, covered by the news media,

123. "Io evohe" is a genuine summoning chant used in witchcraft.

124. However, the Master's "magic words" are anything but.

125. "Malelt tilad ahyram"? "Mary had a little lamb"!

126. The incantation was, literally, the whole nursery rhyme backwards.

127. It covers up the studio lighting rig, which this extreme long shot left visible on Camera 4.

128. This episode was discussed by the BBC's senior management on 26 May 1971, the Wednesday after transmission.

129. It impressed them:

130. We left poor Katy Manning running short-sightedly towards some barbed wire.

131. She was saved from a terrible accident by another, slightly less awful one: Her trousers fell down.

132. Also seen in this episode were:

133. Patrick Milner

134. Bruce Humble, Simon Malloy, Roy Oliver, Sonnie Willis

135. Lily Harrold, Mo Race

136. John Holmes

137. Michael Earl, Charles Finch, Richard Lawrence

138. Alan Lenoire, Jimmy Mac, Ronald Mayer, Roy Pearce

139. Uncredited production contributors included:

140. Frank Brown, Dick Boulter, Graham Morris

141. Jim Black, Tony Bragg, lan Dabbs

142. David South, Pat Turley, Paul Wheeler

143. Mel Freedman, Doris Stretch

144. Stan Swetman

145. Joe Bates

146. Where the dig is.

147. Ah, you're going up there, are you?

148. - It's all on telly, you know. - Yes, yes, I know,

149. but would you please tell us the way? This is very urgent.

150. Always in such a hurry, you townsfolk.

151. All be the same in a hundred years' time, sir.

152. I can assure you, sir, it will be no such thing.

153. Are you one of these television chaps, then?

154. - I am no sort of chap, sir. - Forgive me, but I thought...

155. Well, the costume and the wig, you know?

156. - Wig? - Now, Doctor.

157. What do you want to go up the Hump for, anyway?

158. Look, there is no time for all these unnecessary questions.

159. All the time in the world, sir.

160. I want to go up to the Devil's Hump because I want to stop that

161. lunatic professor of yours from bringing devastation upon you all.

162. Huh. One of Miss Hawthorne's brigade!

163. Is there nobody here capable of answering a perfectly simple enquiry?

164. What's the matter with you all?

165. You're making all the fuss, old man.

166. - Fuss? I've never heard such balder... - Doctor.

167. Look, could you please tell us the way?

168. Yes, certainly. Straight past the green outside,

169. fork left, straight up the rise and you can't miss it.

170. Excellent. Thank you very much.

171. Thank you. Goodbye.

172. What an extraordinary fellow!

173. White hair he had and a sort of cloak.

174. Did he by any chance call himself the Doctor?

175. That's right! That's what the girl called him.

176. How did you know that?

177. It's of no importance.

178. Well, Girton, you've done very well,

179. - but why aren't you ready? - Well, I thought I should tell you.

180. - Said he was going to stop the dig. - Now, you'd better hurry and change.

181. We start the ceremony in a few minutes.

182. Quiet, please! Lots of lovely hush.

183. Quiet!

184. Stand by. On the studio announcement now.

185. Good luck, Tom.

186. Welcome back, viewers. And here at the Devil's Hump,

187. the excitement is intense.

188. The stage it set. What shall we see when the curtain rises?

189. As my will, so mote it be.

190. Nema.

191. Harken to my voice, O Dark One. Ancient and awful,

192. supreme in artifice, bearer of power, I conjure thee.

193. Be present here at my command and truly do my will.

194. Aba, abara,

195. agarbara, gad,

196. gadoal, galdina!

197. Io evohe!

198. As my will, so mote it be.

199. It's no good, we're just wasting time. Come on.

200. If we run we'll just make it.

201. Let's face it, you've had enough blather from t'other fellow!

202. You want to see for yourself.

203. Well, I'll tell you what you're going to see.

204. A stone wall. There you are. What did I tell you?

205. I'm not daft!

206. Eko, eko, Azal!

207. Eko, eko, Azal!

208. Stop! Stop that dig! Stop it!

209. By the power of earth, by the power of air,

210. by the power of fire eternal and the waters of the deep, I conjure thee

211. and charge thee, Azal. Arise, arise at my command, Azal! Azal!

212. Azal!

213. Stop! Don't pull that stone! Don't!

214. Azal!

215. Look!

216. Doctor! Are you... Are you all right?

217. Doctor! No! Doctor! Oh, no!