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The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name. Made for CBBC, the drama was first broadcast between 1996 and 1998. The first series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 2 to 18 January 1996, the second series contained seven episodes, and aired once a week from 25 September to 6 November 1996, and the third series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 6 to 22 January 1998.
School location scenes in the first series were filmed at Hatch End High School, in Hatch End, Harrow, North West London and The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Other scenes were filmed around West London and the Vulcan Tower is in fact the Atrium building in Uxbridge. CGI was used to make this building appear on a traffic island close to Warwick Avenue tube station. Some scenes in the later series were filmed in the village of Sarratt, Hertfordshire and other locations in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01The Demon Headmaster (Part One)January 2, 1996—Lloyd and Harvey adjust to their new foster sister as Dinah Glass is adopted by the Hunter family. As Dinah goes to school, she meets the He
- S01E02The Demon Headmaster (Part Two)January 4, 1996—Dinah struggles to get on with Lloyd and Harvey, as snow falls. A snowball fight breaks out and Dinah, Lloyd and Harvey are forced to clear
- S01E03The Demon Headmaster (Part Three)January 9, 1996—The school is going to appear on the televised school quiz, the Eddie Hair show and the Headmaster forces Dinah to be on the school team.
- S01E04The Demon Headmaster (Part Four)January 11, 1996—A new computer game, Octopus Dare, craze breaks out in the school and everyone is playing it. When Dinah plays the game she wins and gets an
- S01E05The Demon Headmaster (Part Five)January 16, 1996—Dinah arrives at Vulcan Towers, where the final of Octopus Dares is to be played. Lloyd and Harvey worry about Dinah's safety and look to sa
- S01E06The Demon Headmaster (Part Six)January 18, 1996—Dinah begins to work out what is going on and everything hinges on her friends rescuing her.
Season02
- S02E01The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part One)September 25, 1996—Dinah's father is offered a job at the Biogenetic Research Centre (BRC), but the company has a familiar director. The Headmaster recruits Ro
- S02E02The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Two)October 2, 1996—
- S02E03The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Three)October 9, 1996—Lloyd goes missing and the team try to find him. Rose continues her mission.
- S02E04The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Four)October 16, 1996—Rose continues to drive a wedge between Dinah and her family, as Simon helps Dinah.
- S02E05The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Five)October 23, 1996—Simon gets into trouble with the Headmaster, the team try to bring Lloyd back.
- S02E06The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Six)October 30, 1996—The Headmasters genetic experiment of creating a human-lizard hybrid comes to a conclusion as the egg hatches.
- S02E07The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (Part Seven)November 6, 1996—The Human-Lizard hybrid, called Eve, is programmed. Dinah tries to save her brother.
Season03
- S03E01The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part One)January 6, 1998—Army intelligence descend onto the Bio-Research facility and they trigger the cloning of the Headmaster. Dinah meets Professor Claudia Rowe,
- S03E02The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part Two)January 8, 1998—The Hunters settle into their new home, the Headmaster meets a professor specialising in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Wessex
- S03E03The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part Three)January 13, 1998—Internet and telephones stop working and more people are talking like robots, including Professor Claudia Rowe. Dinah finds that the Headmas
- S03E04The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part Four)January 15, 1998—The Headmaster tries to find Dinah with the help of Professor Claudia Rowe as the development of the Hyperbrain continues.
- S03E05The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part Five)January 20, 1998—The Headmaster meets the Hyperbrain, his creation and continues on his mission to find Dinah.
- S03E06The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (Part Six)January 22, 1998—Dinah makes the final push to save the world and her mother.
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