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''"Chap with wings, five rounds rapid..."'' | ''"Chap with wings, five rounds rapid..."'' | ||
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story name= The Dæmons | | story name= The Dæmons | | ||
image= [[Image:Daemons_title.jpg|250px]]| | image= [[Image:Daemons_title.jpg|250px]]| | ||
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] | | series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] | | ||
number= 59 | | number= [[Season 8]]| | ||
story number= 59| | |||
doctor=[[Third Doctor]] | | doctor=[[Third Doctor]] | | ||
companions= [[Jo Grant]] <br/>[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]<br/>[[Mike Yates|Captain Mike Yates]] <br/>[[Sergeant Benton]]| | companions= [[Jo Grant]] <br/>[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]<br/>[[Mike Yates|Captain Mike Yates]] <br/>[[Sergeant Benton]]| | ||
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* The Doctor has fitted [[Bessie]] with a remote control. | * The Doctor has fitted [[Bessie]] with a remote control. | ||
*It is implied that Azal (or his race) destroyed [[Atlantis]] (which makes it the second explanation of how Atlantis fell). | *It is implied that Azal (or his race) destroyed [[Atlantis]] (which makes it the second explanation of how Atlantis fell). | ||
*The dig is broadcast on [[BBC3]]. | |||
==Story Notes== | ==Story Notes== | ||
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===Myths=== | ===Myths=== | ||
*There was a sixth episode planned, where the master escaped UNIT (an April | *There was a sixth episode planned, where the master escaped UNIT. ''(This was an April Fool's joke in the fanzine [[Dream Watch Bulletin|DWB]].)'' | ||
===Influences=== | ===Influences=== | ||
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* 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. | * 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. | ||
=== | ===Filming Locations=== | ||
[[Aldbourne]], Wiltshire | *[[Aldbourne]], Wiltshire | ||
*Ramsbury Airfield, Ramsbury, Wiltshire | |||
*[[BBC Television Centre]] (Studio 4), Shepherd's Bush, [[London]] | |||
===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ||
* Various pronunciations of 'Dæmons', 'Dæmos' (and all other permutations) are used throughout the story. | * Various pronunciations of 'Dæmons', 'Dæmos' (and all other permutations) are used throughout the story. | ||
*A signpost next to the heat barrier says: 'Devil's End 1'. However, in episode two, the barrier has a five mile radius, centered on the church. | |||
*In episode three, the energy exchanger interferes with radio communication, but by episode five it has lost this annoying side effect. | |||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
* The Doctor uses a few lines of a Venusian lullaby which is heard in full during [[The Curse of Peladon]]. | * 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 [[PDA]]: ''[[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 Master retrieves his TARDIS from the debris of the church in [[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]''. | ||
* A Daemon carcass is used by the [[Faction Paradox]] as a spaceship in | * A Daemon carcass is used by the [[Faction Paradox]] as a spaceship in [[EDA]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two]]. | ||
* Daemos in mentioned in [[The Satan Pit]]. | * Daemos in mentioned in [[DW]]: ''[[The Satan Pit]]''. | ||
*In [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' there is a UNIT character named Jenkins (most likely as a homage to the famous line from this story "Jenkins, chap with the wings there, five rounds rapid"). | |||
==DVD, Video and Other Releases== | ==DVD, Video and Other Releases== | ||
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==Target Novelisations / Script Books== | ==Target Novelisations / Script Books== | ||
* '' | *Novelised as ''[[Doctor Who and the Dæmons]]'' in [[1974]] by [[Barry Letts]]. | ||
* '''The Dæmons''' was also released by [[Titan Books]] as a script book in the early 1990s. | * '''The Dæmons''' was also released by [[Titan Books]] as a script book in the early 1990s. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/daemons/ BBC '''The Dæmons''' | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/daemons/ Official BBC Episode Guide for '''The Dæmons'''] | ||
*[http://www.gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=3j Outpost Gallifrey '''The Dæmons''' | *[http://www.gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=3j Outpost Gallifrey Episode Guide: '''The Dæmons'''] | ||
*[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_3j.htm '''The Dæmons''' | *[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_3j.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - '''The Dæmons'''] | ||
* [http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/jjj.html A Brief History of Time (Travel) Guide to '''The Dæmons'''] | * [http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/jjj.html A Brief History of Time (Travel) Guide to '''The Dæmons'''] | ||
*[http://www.doctorwholocations.net/stories/daemons The Locations Guide to Doctor Who - '''The Dæmons'''] | |||
{{TV stub}} | {{TV stub}} | ||
[[Category:Third Doctor episodes|Dæmons, The]] | [[Category:Third Doctor episodes|Dæmons, The]] | ||
