The Daemons

“The Demons", "The Daymons", "The Deamons", "The Deeaemons", "Look Bok in Anger"

"The One With the Big Thing That Could Shrink" (USA), "Slander" (Witchcraft Today)

Doctor Who doesn't believe in magic and goes around spoiling things for those who do.

*** - It does for Pagans what Claws of Axos did for Americans 

"These aren't my own teeth - I'm looking after them for a friend" (Miss Hawthorne, cut from episode three)

"Rationalist, existentialist pants indeed!"

Miss Hawthorne never married

The idea of the UNIT Family came to its natural conclusion during the making of this serial as Jon Pertwee started wearing an apron, Nick Courtney developed acne and painted his dressing room black, John Levene began having an affair with the milk man and Katy Manning became very fond of her slippers.

The cliff hanger where the bad guy was in danger was voted third on the list of bad episode endings – trailing the scene from the Daleks Masterplan where a Dalek turns to camera and says ‘Does anyone fancy an ice cream?’ and the finale of episode three of Caves of Androzani where Peter Davison turns to the mercenaries and shouts “Unless someone has a fifty pence piece we won’t be able to park this space ship”

Matthew ‘Right hand’ Corbett played one of the Master’s disciples. The others were played Sweep, Soo and little cousin Scampi. Alas, Sooty was revealed to have been working without an Equity card and was banned from the set.

The Maypole, like Richard Franklyn, is considered a very phallic symbol.

The Daily Pagan said this story was “a farrago of lies that would have Baron Munchausen and every other famous liar blushing down to his very toenails.”

...is that you can't really expect anything nice to come out of a devil's hump

Si Hunt

"I once decided to visit Bendaton's local white witch. It was early in my telehistorical career and I feared that I might get stuck in a rut. I asked her, in polite terms, if she could do something to ensure that I never stand still. She mumbled some mumbo jumbo and sprinkled some herbs about and generally did the tourist bit. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I quipped, "I don't want any of that rubbish - just do your magic and let me get back to my researches, you old crone." She gave me a look and got some other herbs out of her cupboard. She then shouted a curse at me in some made up language and told me I'd never again sit still. "You mean my career will never stand still" I corrected. "I know what I mean" she cackled. Shortly after that I made my first official visit to Doctor Flapjack and he diagnosed my a-n-u-s trouble. If I was a peasant I would be inclined to believe there was a connection. Luckily I'm not and there isn't. Though I do sometimes wonder if her being Doctor Flapjack's sister and me being a private patient were in any way related."

"Doctor Who Bangwagon" called this story "the best thing ever" and went on to urge all fans to "bombard the BBC". Jon Pertwee was described as "having been born to perform this script", Katy Manning was called "the best blonde of her generation" and Richard Franklin was named "the most desirable heterosexual male of the nineteen seventies". John Levene sued over this remark but lost. "K9's Pyjamas" writer Neal McSeal felt the erotic subtext was "occasionally a bit hard to get one's head round" but "everything else was fine."