Doctor Who/The King's Demons

The King's Demons
Season 20, Serial 6
Airdate	March 15, 1983
Production Number	6J
by	Terence Dudley
Directed by	Tony Virgo
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Doctor Who — Season Twenty

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The King's Demons is the sixth serial of the twentieth season of Doctor Who, and the one-hundred and twenty-ninth serial overall.

Part One: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Anthony Ainley (The Master), Frank Windsor (Ranulf), Gerald Flood (The King), Isla Blair (Isabella), Christopher Villiers (Hugh), Michael J. Jackson (Sir Geoffrey), Peter Burroughs (Jester), John Waller (Fight Arranger), Jakob Lindberg (Lute Player)

Part Two: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Anthony Ainley (The Master), Frank Windsor (Ranulf), Gerald Flood (The King), Isla Blair (Isabella), Christopher Villiers (Hugh), Michael J. Jackson (Sir Geoffrey), John Waller (Fight Arranger), Jakob Lindberg (Lute Player)

Uncredited: Gerald Flood (Voice of Kamelion)

Plot Overview

King John is acting very strangely and the Doctor believes he has fallen under the influence of someone attempting to change history by preventing the signing of the Magna Carta.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• To conceal the Master's role in the story, Radio Times had been told to credit the role of Sir Gilles Estram - "Estram" being an anagram of "Master" - as being played by "James Stoker" – an anagram of "Master's Joke".