The Daemons

Doctor Who travels to Devil's End Village to probe the centuries old secret of the Devil's Hump, a mysterious burial mound. Professor Horner plans to break open the mound on the night of the year's greatest occult festival. But a local witch warns of impending doom and destruction. Exactly what evil treasures lie buried there? Who, or what, is the mighty Azal? And most disturbing for the Doctor and Jo, how is the Reverend Magister, alias the infamous Master, involved in the mystery?

This five part adventure, never before available in its entirety, has been brilliantly reconstructed and restored to color for the first time in more than 20 years!

• Another Pertwee/Delgado classic, "The Daemons" is the fifth and final story in an entire seasons worth of Doctor Who/Master storylines.

• At the end of this story, The Master is captured by U.N.I.T. and doesn't return until "The Sea Devils" well into the next season.

• This is the story that generated the Brigadier's best known quote, "...Chap with the wings there, 5 rounds rapid."

• The original color master tapes of this story were wiped in the mid to late 1980's.  When the junking was halted and an inventory done, it was discovered that this story did still exist in a 16mm black and white film recording (used for overseas sales).  As luck would have it, a fan with an early videotape machine recorded these episodes in color when they originally aired in the U.S.  Similar color recordings of junked Pertwee episodes exist for "Doctor Who and the Silurians," "The Ambassadors of Death" and "Terror of  the Autons" but sadly not for "The Mind of Evil" or episode 3 of "Planet of the Daleks" or episode 1 of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs."

• The Doctor Who Restoration Team did extensive work on this video release by taking existing black and white footage and incorporating it with 1970's off air recordings to restore it to a high quality color version.

• Episode 4 still exists in its original color format.  The other 4 episodes (while in restored color) have a much more "film" look to them.  Presumably, if the Doctor Who Restoration Team were to prepare this story for a DVD release, they could VidFIRE the other 4 episodes and then re-colorize them once again, giving the entire story a more consistent "video" look.