I thought ‘this is lovely, a pantomimic figure, nasty fellow’ but lovely, who wouldn’t want to play something like this? I knew once I’d finished reading it that I would want to do it. They said ‘well some actors don’t like to’ and I said ‘if they’re good actors, I don’t care what their age is!’ They said they were going to send me the scripts, which they did, and I sat in the garden – I remember this vividly, sitting in a little bower area which I have at the bottom of the garden, and the wife fed me with a bit of coffee now and again, and I ploughed through them. They got in touch and said ‘the problem is, it’s working with children!’. So, I knew him and he knew me, and obviously he thought that I was a good idea for the part.
“I had worked with the director-producer years before on some children’s drama. The producer-director was Roger Singleton-Turner.Ĭast as the terrifying Demon Headmaster was Terrence Hardiman, who was perhaps best known at that time for playing Reinhardt in Secret Army. The scripts were adapted from Cross’s books by Helen Cresswell, who had also written the wildly successful 1991 version of Five Children And It, as well as adapting her own novel Moondial in 1988. The series crested a wave of quality Children’s BBC supernatural dramas like Dark Season, Century Fallsand Earthfasts. We spoke to the Demon Headmaster himself Terrence Hardiman, and Frances Amey who played his nemesis, child genius Dinah Hunter, to learn more. First appearing in the children’s book of the same name by Gillian Cross in 1982, the character is now indelibly linked with the CBBC TV series which ran from 1996-1998. Those specs, the voice, that stare – for a generation of children in the UK, there was nothing quite as scary in the afternoons as The Demon Headmaster.
When Dinah makes a shocking discovery she decides to investigate further, but has she fallen into a trap? Little does Dinah realize that the Demon Headmaster is about to use her in his most threatening plan yet! Great fun and just a little bit frightening, Gillian Cross's Demon Headmaster books still hold readers under their hypnotic spell. So when a competition is announced to unmask the DJ, everyone wants to win and find out who he is. Club Purple is the place to be! The mysterious DJ Pardoman is so cool, with his ever-changing electronic mask. But will she and her friends be able to stop the Demon Headmaster in his most threatening plan yet? Num Pages: 208 pages. But just who is lurking behind the mask? When Dinah makes a shocking discovery she sets out to investigate. Purple is the best club ever! Everyone loves the mysterious DJ Pardoman. Description for Facing the Demon Headmaster Paperback.
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