History Recap / DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons

'''Production code:''' JJJ

Written by Robert Sloman and Creator/BarryLetts ([[AlanSmithee under the pseudonym Guy Leopold]]). This five-episode serial first aired from May 22 to June 19, 1971.

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The Doctor is captured in a tangle of maypole ribbons, clubbed into unconsciousness by Morris Dancers, and wakes up to ye olde stake/kindling combination. In the village pub, Sergeant Benton engages in hand-to-hand combat with a rampaging Morris Man, and is only saved when Miss Hawthorne batters his attacker into unconsciousness with the crystal ball stashed in her reticule. Absolute mayhem.

->"''I see. So all we've got to deal with is something which is either too small to see or thirty feet tall, can incinerate you or freeze you to death, turn stone images into homicidal monsters and looks like the devil."''
-->-- '''Captain Yates''' sums up UNIT's job.

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Brig shoots a statue.

** The Doctor immediately realizes who the "Reverend Magister" must be as soon as he hears the name: "Magister" is Latin for "[[TheMaster Master]]".
** The name "Quiquaequod" is a mix of Latin conjugations for the word "Who".

* NoSell:
** The Master's hypnotism doesn't work on Ms. Hawthorne.
** Captain Yates tries to stop one of the Master's hypnotized mooks from stealing the helicopter, punching him full in the face; the man barely flinches.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/{{Supernatural}} Super]][[Series/DoctorWho Who]]: The Early Years]]

The one where the Brig shoots a statue.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: During the "Great Wizard Quiquaequod" scene, Benton shoots out a lamp on the far side of the road and the weathercock on top of the church, through a narrow aperture and with only a handgun (with a silencer attached). In the novelization, Benton has a quiet OhCrap moment when the Doctor calls the weathercock as the next object he will move with his "magic", guessing that the Doctor has assumed he has a rifle instead, and needs two shots to hit it.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: The cultist who gets upset when the Master decides to sacrifice Jo. He had an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded role]] in the novelization, including a name, a side plot of his own, and a heroic attempt to stand up to the Master, only to be brutally knocked aside.

* StockFootage: The helicopter explosion is taken from ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. It was previously used in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]].

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The Doctor is captured in a tangle of maypole ribbons, clubbed into unconsciousness by Morris Dancers, and wakes up to ye olde stake/kindling combination. In the village pub, Sergeant Benton engages in hand-to-hand combat with a rampaging Morris Man, and is only saved when Miss Hawthorne batters his attacker into unconsciousness with the crystal ball stored in her reticule. Absolute mayhem.

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The Doctor is captured in a tangle of maypole ribbons, clubbed into unconsciousness by Morris Dancers, and wakes up to ye olde stake/kindling combination.

* IdyllicEnglishVillage: On the surface, Devil’s End is an utterly quintessential English village, complete with beautiful cottages nestled around the village green, a handsome Saxon church, a troupe of Morris Men, and of course, a cosy pub - the Cloven Hoof. The bucolic facade belies the satanic cult forming under the Master’s influence. As seen on signposts as Jo and the Doc travel to the village, nearby locations are equally ominously named, including ‘Witch Wood’ and ‘Satan’s Corner’.

* {{Corpsing}}: In the long shot just after the Doctor gets caught up in the middle of the Morris dance when they all round on him and begin hitting him with their sticks and bladders, you can see Creator/JonPertwee is cracking up. (Despite the ludicrous description, this is supposed to be a scary scene.)

* GodGuise: Kind of a given for SufficientlyAdvancedAliens. Azal and other Dæmons were the inspiration for many horned pagan gods and Satan.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Dæmons, apparently responsible for many eras of human advancement.

Written by Robert Sloman and Creator/BarryLetts ([[AlanSmithee under the pseudonym Guy Leopold]]). This six-episode serial first aired from May 22 to June 19, 1971.

Written by Robert Sloman and Creator/BarryLetts ([[AlanSmithee under the pseudonym Guy Leopold]]). This serial first aired May 22-June 19, 1971.

* BurnTheWitch: The locals try to do this to the Doctor. Ironically the local witch intervenes to stop them (with the help of Jo and Benton).

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When Azal first gets out, he goes for a walk around while thirty feet high. Yates and Benton see the results from the air.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Doctor goes to great pains to explain that something that looks and functions exactly like magic is not, in fact, magic. His argument seems to amount to "Because I don't want to call it magic." Also something about ClarkesThirdLaw.

* JerkassBall: The Third Doctor spends much of this story being really quite nasty to people who are trying to help him, especially Jo and Osgood. It may be due to the level of the threat posed by Azal (and the HostilityOnTheSet surely didn't help), but the story is still often used as Exhibit A by fans who dislike him.

* ItsPronouncedTropay: The first time the name of the titular alien species is spoken aloud, the Doctor pronounces it the way it's (apparently) spelled: Day-mons[[labelnote:*]] Though that's really the letter ''ash'', or æ, and should indeed be pronounced "ee" rather than "ay"[[/labelnote]]. For the rest of the serial, everyone, including the Doctor, pronounces it correctly as "demons".

* MotherNatureFatherScience: The Doctor is contrasted to Miss Hawthorne, a witch. The text seems to suggest that they're NotSoDifferent, however.