Doctor Who 8x24

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

The Master orders Bert to set a trap for the Doctor at the village while a concussed Jo makes for the cavern.

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1. "The villagers are in the Master's power and attack the Doctor.

2. "Jo falls into the Master's hands - and comes face to face with the Dæmon."

3. This episode was first shown on 12 June 1971, and was seen by 8.1 million viewers.

4. Roger Delgado was especially fond of his costume in the conjuring scenes.

5. "Namyah Siramad"? Damaris Hayman!

6. That was Roger Delgado's unscripted little joke.

7. The ladder was a last-minute addition by Christopher Barry.

8. Conscious of Katy Manning's myopia, he gallantly wanted to make it easier for her to get herself down.

9. The script emphasises that Jo is obviously still sedated here.

10. The pub "floorboards" were painted on by the scene crew.

11. Alec Linstead Really didn't get on with Jon Pertwee.

12. "Christmas after next" was the even worse prognosis in the script.

13. The plan was for Azal's voice to be supplied by a different actor, and played in from tape.

14. Two weeks later, the cast began rehearsing this episode and the next.

15. so in the end the Dæmon's voice and body both belonged to Stephen Thorne.

16. He returned to Doctor Who to play another near-divine being, Omega in 'The Three Doctors' (1972-3),

17. and contributed to another apotheosis by serving as the second actor

18. at the 1973 audition which led to the casting of Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith.

19. The Master's amulet is the magical symbol known as the Goat of Mendes,

20. The "heat haze" is achieved using a sheet of "mirrorlon",

21. The reflected, vibrating action was then electronically flipped the right way round.

22. The ivy was supposed to be more obviously self-animated as it tries to choke Jo.

23. It was originally planned as an animated willow branch rather than moving plastic ivy,

24. but the idea was scaled down for budgetary reasons.

25. This meant forgoing her bathroom,

26. so she asked a favour: Might she use Damaris Hayman's bath to do her washing?

27. Damaris kindly agreed, and, returning to the hotel one evening, was startled to find

28. that her bathroom had been transformed into a jungle of dripping panties, about fifty pairs hung out to dry...

29. Since she was interested in the occult at the time, she spent one of those days

30. The script calls for "a twenty-year-old clapped-out car".

31. The Doctor was supposed to chalk the circuit diagram on the ground, but the wet weather ruled that out.

32. In other words, not very simple at all, unless you're the Doctor,

33. but the Special Theory of Relativity is indeed simpler than the later General Theory of Relativity (1916).

34. The script describes Devil's End Church as "very squat, very Norman" -

35. This is the sequence based on the Jo Grant audition scene, which Barry Letts had put together

36. to elicit from the actresses the range of core emotions required by the Doctor Who girl's role:

37. She had to be brave and terrified at different points, and to scream convincingly.

38. The scene showed Yates rescuing Jo from a church.

39. He demonstrates the danger by throwing a book onto a stone inscribed with cabalistic symbols.

40. It is torn apart by an "elemental piranha fish" - and that could have been her fate too.

41. Jo panics and turns around to run, only to be confronted by - the Devil!

42. Jack Silk replaces Jon Pertwee for the stunt.

43. Jon Pertwee replaces Jack Silk for the close-up.

44. but mainly because the dates clashed with a holiday she had planned in Greece.

45. Then she read the script, was hooked, and decided that Greece would have to wait.

46. The location experiment with "crystamatic" three-camera film shooting was not entirely successful, either.

47. into a position where it could be seen by all three cameras at the same time.

48. The film operations crew also hadn't supplied enough hardboard to lay down for all of the cameras.

49. And whereas, in conventional filming, each shot would be set up and lit to look perfect from one angle,

50. In all, 'The Dæmons' features 54 minutes and 33 seconds of specially shot film, nearly half its overall running time.

51. However, the experiment caused some problems in the studio.

52. and this all had to happen during the three hours of recording time allocated in each studio session.

53. This caused a 15-minute overrun on the first studio day.

54. the film sequences should run in continuous stretches separate from the studio action.

55. They were the oldest established morris-dancing group in England,

56. Beware the bladder-man: He also does this to members of the audience.

57. This is a version of the folk dance known as "Bean Setting".

58. What's about to happen to the Doctor, after the bladder-man has finished with him,

59. is loosely based on a traditional dance from Revesby in Lincolnshire.

60. But several things went wrong here, starting now.

61. So this is genuine pain.

62. On morris-dancing day, the shoot was visited by Dennis Hooper, the editor of Countdown,

63. a children's comic which had launched two months earlier and included a Doctor Who strip.

64. which ran for ten episodes from July to September

65. Bert quotes the Bible: Exodus 22.18.

66. Another visitor to the location filming was the co-author, Robert Sloman.

67. "Nema" is "Amen" backwards.

68. In the script, Bok turns his head and looks directly at them.

69. The Cloven Hoof is really the Blue Boar.

70. Bert's next line is based on a challenge issued to Jesus during the Crucifixion:

71. "Save thyself and come down from the cross"

72. The morris dancers have vanished because these maypole scenes were shot four days later, on 28 April.

73. It was originally written as a shattering flowerpot.

74. Spinning the weathercock cost the effects budget 24 man-hours and £3.

75. John Levene felt he needed to look authentic when firing his pistol,

76. so he watched some Clint Eastwood movies to study technique.

77. Silencers notoriously reduce the accuracy of any pistol to which they are affixed.

78. The turn in the weather on location coincided with some mechanical problems for Bessie.

79. with one foot stretched down to work the pedals and the other on the driving seat,

80. while he reached over the windscreen to operate the wiper by hand.

81. The wiper's motor had failed, but he needed it to get the car through the terrible weather!

82. The Doctor puns on a line famously attributed to, but never said by, Sherlock Holmes.

83. It was John Levene's idea to use Bessie's running-board to put some bounce into his leap.

84. A wag suggested that the backwards incantation should be the bawdy ballad Eskimo Nell,

85. which later became two 1975 films, one with Katy Manning in the cast

86. and the other directed by a Richard Franklin.

87. The script calls for "a feebly flapping chicken".

88. On screen it's not altogether clear what becomes of the bird,

89. The script specifies that he ends up 20 feet high.

90. The cavern roof was composited in from Camera 4.

91. Also seen in this episode were:

92. Marion Deuchar

93. Pat Gorman, David J. Graham, John Scott Martin, John Tatham, Vic Taylor

94. Ron Taylor

95. Maria Burns, Lesley Matcham, Lyn Matcham

96. That's it. He is a god.

97. You really are a magician.

98. I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam,

99. but if I were, I'd hardly need your assistance

100. in extricating me from this... this sacrificial gift wrapping.

101. How on Earth did you do that, Doctor?

102. Elemental, my dear Benton.

103. Oh, no, you don't, chum.

104. We've all got a date with the Master, haven't we?

105. Io evohe!

106. Azal! We have power over life, you and I.

107. Accept this life I now dedicate to thee.

108. No! Stop it! It's evil! Don't you see that? It's evil!

109. You are too late, my dear!

110. Eko, eko, Azal!

111. Eko, eko, Azal!

112. Azal!