Quotes
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"If Professor Horner opens up that barrow, he will bring disaster on us all!" ~ Miss Hawthorne
"But it really is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Well, that means the occult. Well, you know, the supernatural and all that magic bit." ~ Jo Grant
"Naturally. Or should I say scientifically. Solenoids and a solar mechanism in Bessie and a radio control unit here. You see how easy it is to be a magician? ~ The Third Doctor
Fergus: Sutton Hoo, of course...
Horner: Never mind about Sutton Hoo. This is what your precious viewers are interested in. The Devil's Hump and what's inside it, right?
Fergus: And what is inside it?
"I've cast the runes. I've consulted the talisman of Mercury. It's written in the stars. When Beltane is come, tread softly, for lo, the prince himself is nigh. And tonight is Beltane." ~ Miss Hawthorne
"Devil's End, of course. That woman is perfectly right. We've got to stop that lunatic before it's too late." ~ The Third Doctor
"Existentially? Oh, you're a blockhead! Oh, why should I believe you? A rationalist, existentialist priest indeed. You're a fool, sir. If you won't help me, I must find someone who will." ~ Miss Hawthorne
"If you look at the map the right way up, we might eventually get there. Now, which way is it?" ~ The Third Doctor
"Silly, really. I swear it sounds as if he's... It's quite ridiculous. It must be an echo off an atypical bone structure. As if he had two hearts. One on each side." ~ Dr. Reeves
Yates: Look Jo, what is going on?
Jo: I don't know. Something really bad, you know.
Yates: Well, how do you mean?
Jo: Well, you know, devilish.
"The Doctor's gone? Gone where? Well, you should know, Corporal. I want to talk to him. What? Oh, all right then, wake up Miss Grant. I see. And I suppose she didn't leave a number either? I suppose it wouldn't do any good to ask for Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton? My helicopter? Where to? Devil's End. Yes, yes, I see. Get my car here right away. Yes, and if they do contact you, tell them to stay put." ~ Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Benton: Look, what is going on here? All hell seems to be breaking loose.
Hawthorne: Do you know, Sergeant, you're exactly right. Come on.
"Do you know when the last Witchcraft Act was repealed in this country? 1951. Why, it's as alive today as it ever was." ~ Miss Hawthorne
"You saw the Devil? And what did he look like?" ~ The Doctor
"Jo, did you fail Latin as well as science? Magister is the Latin word for Master!" ~ The Doctor
"So, the Doctor was frozen stiff at the barrow and was then revived by a freak heat wave. Benton was beaten up by invisible forces and the local white witch claims she's seen the Devil." ~ The Brigadier
"If my theory's right, we're all in mortal danger." ~ The Third Doctor
"No, it's the first line of an old Venusian lullaby, as a matter of fact. Roughly translated it goes, 'Close your eyes, my darling. Well, three of them, at least'." ~ The Third Doctor
"Now creatures like those have been seen over and over again throughout the history of man, and man has turned them into myths, gods or devils, but they're neither. They are, in fact, creatures from another world. They're Daemons from the planet Daemos and they first came to Earth nearly one hundred thousand years ago." ~ The Third Doctor
"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, turns stone images into homicidal monsters and looks like the very devil." ~ Mike Yates
"What does any scientist do with an experiment that fails? He chucks it in the rubbish bin." ~ The Third Doctor
"You'll do no such thing, Lethbridge Stewart. Of all the idiotic suggestions. In the first place, the energy released would only strengthen the barrier, in the second place it would provoke the most appalling reprisals and in the third place I've got a better idea." ~ The Third Doctor
"You rule? Ha! Why, you're all less than dust beneath my feet!" ~ The Master
"No, man, no. You're trying to channel the entire output of the National Power Complex through one transistor. Reverse it. Reverse the polarity." ~ The Third Doctor
Brigadier: Do you know what you're doing?
The 3rd Doctor: My dear chap, I can't wait to find out.
"Be silent! I am the last of the Daemons. This planet smells to me of failure. It may be that I shall destroy it. You still wish me to come once more?" ~ Azal
"You're an idiot. This place is alive with booby traps. Spells, elementals, the Doctor's forcefields." ~ Mike Yates
"He is the enemy! He's a black witch! A witch, do you hear? A witch and you've always known what you must do with a witch, haven't you? That's right, friends. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Burn him!" ~ Bert
"No, wait, listen to me. Under the Magister you have been frightened, injured, your property destroyed. Serve the great Qui Quae Quod. In him lies peace and great joy." ~ Miss Hawthorne
Hawthorne: You really are a magician.
The 3rd Doctor: I'm sorry to disappoint you, madame, but I were, I'd hardly need your assistance in extricating me from this, this sacrificial gift wrapping.
"Og ot erus saw bmal eht tnew yram taht, erehwyreve dna, wons sa etihw saw eceelf sti, bmal elttila dah yram!" ~ The Master
"I'm not a magician or a wizard or anything of the sort. But neither is the Master. I've tricked you, yes, but only to save you from him." ~ The Third Doctor
"The energy exchanger. This machine that the Brigadier is building for me. With that I should be able to drain off our visitor's energy. Then perhaps we can sort him out." ~ The Third Doctor
"I'm sorry, Miss Grant, but you are to be sacrificed in a noble cause." ~ The Master
"Oh, I'm a dead man. I knew that as soon as I came through that door, so you'd better watch out. You see, I've nothing to lose, have I?" ~ The Third Doctor
"If you kill me now, you will wonder throughout eternity whether you should have listened to my words." ~ The Third Doctor
The Master: Then fulfill your mission by granting the ultimate power to me. Who else is there strong enough to give these humans the leadership they need?
The 3rd Doctor: I seem to remember somebody else speaking like that. What was the bounder's name? Hitler. Yes, that's right, Adolf Hitler. Or was it Genghis Khan?
"You certainly did. Thanks to you man can now blow up the world and he probably will. He can poison the water and the very air he breathes. He's already started. He can..." ~ The Third Doctor
"You see, Azal couldn't face an act as irrational and as illogical as her being prepared to give up her life for me." ~ The Third Doctor
The 3rd Doctor: Stop firing. You'll damage Bessie.
The Brigadier: Do you want him to get away?
The 3rd Doctor: Don't worry, Bessie'll bring him back.
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Trivia
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The Doctor calls himself "the Great Wizard Quiquaeqoud". Qui, quae and quod are, respectively, the masculine, feminine and neuter forms of the Latin word for "who".
The Master's summoning phrases for Azal is "Mary had a little lamb" backwards.
The area under the church is always referred to as "the cavern", never "the crypt". This was a BBC requirement to avoid the risk of causing offense to viewers with religious sensibilities. Similarly, much to director Christopher Barry's amazement, no mention of God was permitted to be made in the story's dialogue, in case this was considered to be blasphemous – although references to the Devil were acceptable.
The shot of the exploding helicopter is actually a scene taken from James Bond film From Russia With Love.
The Master's summoning phrases for Azal is "Mary had a little lamb" backwards.
When coming to grips with the idea that the Dæmons might be alien, Sergeant Benton compares them to other alien species he's met, namely the Axons (The Claws of Axos) and Cybermen. (The Invasion) The latter is one of the only references to the Cybermen in the whole of Jon Pertwee's time as the regular lead of the program.
The large hoof prints left by Azal as he walks around the village of Devil's End and encircles the community with a heat barrier brings to mind a famous and well-documented case. On the morning of 9 February 1855, the inhabitants of several villages and towns in Devon awoke to find what appeared to be the tracks of a hooved, two-legged creature in the snow, traversing a total distance of one hundred miles, going over rooftops, a 14-foot wall, and even apparently leaping across a two mile wide estuary. Many believed that the Devil himself had walked through Devon the previous night.
Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, in the English county of Suffolk, is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, now held in the British Museum in London.
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