The Demon Headmaster

The Demon Headmaster

1996
★★★☆☆ 6.5/10
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 19 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 25 min/episode
DramaAction & AdventureMysteryFamily
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.

Seasons

Season 1
1996 • 6 Episodes
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 Headmaster for the first time...can she resist the headmasters mind control?
Season 2
1996 • 7 Episodes
Dinah's father is offered a job at the Biogenetic Research Centre (BRC), but the company has a familiar director. The Headmaster recruits Rose, a prefect from the school, to help him with Dinah.
Season 3
1998 • 6 Episodes
Army intelligence descend onto the Bio-Research facility and they trigger the cloning of the Headmaster. Dinah meets Professor Claudia Rowe, a specialist in biology and genetic research.

Crew

Director
Roger Singleton-Turner
Writer
Helen Cresswell

Network

CBBC

Keywords

intelligence testhigh schoolstepfathermind controlrebellionhypnotismschool principalnew girl at school