Gunnar stopped acting for 12 years after The Demon Headmaster, but then returned to the industry in 2010.

Her suspicions are only further raised when she meets the headmaster. He is described in great detail as a character that isn’t too comfortable to be around. During her first meeting, Dinah is informed that she fell asleep however she knows and feels that something is not quite right. Dinah begins to get more and more suspicious and begins to ask questions, however her fellow students all answer in the same controlled fashion when prompted, as if under a spell or something. Dinah instincts tell her, undoubtedly, that something is wrong, so she sets out to find out what’s going on. In her attempts to discover the truth she tries to win the confidence of her two step brothers (Lloyd and Harvey) to help her investigate the strange occurrences at the school. Dinah discovers with the help of her friends that the headmaster has set out to hypnotise the school (students and teachers). Helping her were her friends who were the only students who immune to hypnosis like she was. However, she was the driving force they needed actually investigate the weird occurrences. Eventually, Dinah and co discover that the headmaster had bigger plans, plans to hypnotise the entire country via the means of a TV programme. Take the children, they're super tidy, they have perfectly combed hair, and smooth ties. They don't laugh, or play games, or shout. In fact they don't do anything. They just work, all the time. And they march around the school in lines, like robots.

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In 1998, Puffin Books released a series of goody bags on certain themes and featured a notepad, pencil, rubber, etc., along with a small book. In the 'Fantasy' goody bag there was a book calling 'Crash Landing & Other Stories' by Gillian Cross. This book contains three short stories about the Demon Headmaster or people similar to him. Earp, Catherine (11 February 2019). "The Demon Headmaster is being revived by CBBC to terrify a new generation". Digital Spy. Gillian Cross has been writing children’s books for over thirty years. Before that, she took English degrees at Oxford and Sussex Universities, and had various jobs including working in a village bakery and being an assistant to a Member of Parliament. She won the Carnegie Medal for Wolf, the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award for The Great Elephant Chase; and the Little Rebels Award for After Tomorrow.

Octopus Dare is the new computer game at school – everyone is playing it. But only Dinah is any good at it. Soon all she can think about is Octopus Dare. She wins a place at the grand final, and she is delighted. But there is something strange about it all that scares Dinah – so her friends come with her to the final. Before long they find themselves in trouble, as the Computer Director turns out to be their old enemy, the Demon Headmaster. Lloyd and Harry Harvey worry that their new foster-sister Dinah will become one of "them" - the oddly well-behaved children at their school. Children who act in a strangely robotic fashion, and who when asked, will invariably respond "He (the headmaster) is a marvellous man and this is the best school I've ever been to". Their concern seems warranted at first, as Dinah appears to fall into step with the majority. But no one, not Lloyd and Harvey, not their small group of misfit friends, and certainly not the headmaster, counted on Dinah's stubborn streak, and it soon emerges that the headmaster is using hypnotism to control the students and teachers. But to what end?LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Summers, Brett (3 June 2021). "Interview: The Demon Headmaster Cast". CULT FACTION . Retrieved 12 December 2021. The Demon Headmaster is a series of books by Gillian Cross which were later adapted as a television series starring Terrence Hardiman in the title role and Frances Amey as Dinah. The Demon Headmaster is the title of the first Demon Headmaster book which started off the Demon Headmaster Book series which was written by British author Gillian Cross.

Presenter Barney Harwood reads extracts from 'The Demon Headmaster' by Gillian Cross (cover illustrated by Tuesday Mourning). Anyone who's familiar with the show will testify how sinister Terrence Hardiman was as the titular Headmaster. Children's BBC". BBC Genome. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017 . Retrieved 25 February 2017.

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Together with her new found friends, Dinah must uncover the secret of her school, defeat her Headmaster (without getting expelled! lol)and hopefully win over her new foster family.

Find sources: "The Demon Headmaster"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Dinah Thinks she knows all the facts. The headmaster, the kids and the school. Eventually her foster brothers tell her what is going on. The headmaster hypnotizes everyone, but Lloyd and Harvey (as well as a few others) cannot be hypnotized. Before Dinah turns into the headmasters slave, they use her to spy on him. They figure out that his master plan and stop him carrying it out. Design Your Own Demon Headmaster: Encourage children to use their creativity to design their version of the Demon Headmaster. They can draw, paint or create a representation of what they imagine this character to look like. On 25 December 1997, Christmas Day, CBBC showed The Demon Headmaster Takes Over TV, a recorded version of the CBBC Pantomime, performed at the CBBC Big Bash in National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham that year. Whilst the first two series have been repeated several times on television, this special was only shown once and has never been repeated. [3] Series 3 – The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (1998) [ edit ]