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http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/ordering/daemord=
er.htm
There's also the press release for it which was issued last
year:
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NEW DOCTOR WHO FILM
Reeltime Pictures have announced their first DOCTOR WHO spin-off drama
for four years. "It's been a while since we released MINDGAME: TRILOGY,"
said Reeltime's Keith Barnfather, "and with this year being the 40th
anniversary of DOCTOR WHO, we really wanted to mark it with something
special, and what better way to bring back one of DOCTOR WHO's greatest
alien races."
DAEMOS RISING is a sequel to both the third Doctor adventure THE DAEMONS
and to DOWNTIME, an earlier Reeltime drama featuring the Yeti. DAEMOS
RISING stars Miles Richardson as ex-UNIT operative Douglas Cavendish, and
Beverley Cressman as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's daughter Kate.
Trapped in an isolated cottage, Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The
only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ...
but when she arrives, she realises that Cavendish is key in a plot to
summon the Daemons back to the Earth. With time running out, Kate
discovers that sometimes even the familiar can turn out to be your worst
nightmare.
"I wanted to play with the characters a little, and to see what made them
tick," explains writer David J Howe, currently co-director of Telos
Publishing Ltd. "I always loved THE DAEMONS - it's simply so full of
great themes and potential that just one television outing never seemed
enough. When I first started discussing the ideas with Keith for this
drama, we both wanted to see how far we could go in both entertaining and
unnerving the viewer ... and I hope we succeed on both counts. One of the
things that attracted me to DOCTOR WHO in the first place were the ideas
and concepts. I enjoy thinking through the implications of what was
presented on screen, and seeing where that takes us. For example, how
powerful is psionic science? Can you animate more than just a stone
statue with it? How many Daemons have visited the Earth? Was Azal really
the last of his race, or did he just think that ... questions and lateral
thinking like this allow you to expand on the original material and to
take it in new directions. There's also a far broader background to this
tale, and readers of Telos' new TIME HUNTER range of Novellas will start
to make some connections as DAEMOS RISING is very much set in the same
universe. It's been tremendously challenging and great fun to
do."
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