The first series of the show was split into two distinctive story lines, with the first three episodes adapted from the first book in the series "The Demon Headmaster" and the last three were adapted from the second book "The Demon Headmaster and the Prime Minister's Brain". The children act in a robotic and unnerving way, seemingly lead by the strange, fierce and intimidating headmaster.

Perkembangan hubungannya dengan kakak beradik Lloyd dan Harvey amat menyenangkan untuk diikuti, begitu pun dengan perkembangan karakter dan sudut pandang Lloyd yang sempat merasa 'terancam' dengan kehadiran dan kecerdasan Dinah. A brilliant spooky series for readers aged eight upwards who relish stories with intriguing plots and sharply contrasting characters. Trance Dance: Encourage children to choreograph a sequence of expressive dance movements inspired by the Demon Headmaster's hypnotic powers, experimenting with different interpretations of being hypnotised. When Dinah arrives she sets up SPLAT, a group designed to protect the pupils from the head’s paranormal powers and to break his dictatorship.Realising he intends to hypnotise them, Lizzie and Ethan enlist recent genius Sophie to help them counter his powers with sound. Gambaran para karakternya terasa autentik dan punya keunikan tersendiri, tidak sekedar meniru tipe-tipe karakter yang sudah sering dipakai. A TV sequel was made in 2019 for CBBC, based on Total Control and the subsequent books, which picks up where the original series left of.

Now I'm parent to a school-aged child, I got the book down and thought we'd try it, dubious as to whether a book of that era would appeal. Dinah, Lloyd and Harvey are gonna have to work together if they're gonna fight back against the Headmaster. The new club Purple is the place to go - if one can get in - and Mandy's cousin, Ellie, persuades Dinah and her friends to come along too.Without getting into "spoiler territory", the story examines the cost of individual freedom at the hands of absolute perfectionism. But for this, he needs Dinah's DNA - combining it with a lizard to create Eve, a human/lizard hybrid who possesses Dinah's intellect but lacks her emotions - and then put her into terrible danger, pitting her against Eve to test his theories. Harvey accepts Dinah into the family and SPLAT a lot quicker than Lloyd and the others do, and soon is as close to his new sister as he is his brother. Dinah quickly realises there is something very strange about the school as the students all appear to be hypnotised by a sinister headmaster with dark-tinted glasses.

Little does she realise that the computer competition is a plot by the Demon Headmaster to take over the world, by hacking into the Prime Minister's computer (The Prime Minister's Brain) and hypnotising the Prime Minister, thus allowing him to meet the other world leaders and gain control of them himself. 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. At the end of each page or chapter the class can discuss any key features found and share their ideas amongst each other.But there is something strange about it all that scares Dinah – so her friends come with her to the final. When Dinah is fostered by the Hunters she thinks her biggest problem will be fitting in with her foster-brothers, Lloyd and Harvey.