Otte karrieresultne unge kvinder og mænd er de sidste kandidater til et drømmejob. De isoleres i et separat rum for at gennemføre en sidste prøve, hvor de får 80 minutter til at finde svaret. Problemet er blot, at der ikke er noget spørgsmål ... En tæt og uforudsigelig thriller om et psykologisk eksperiment, hvor kun én kan blive vinder.
Dede Tate (Jodie Foster) er servitrice og alenemor. Hendes lille søn Fred (Adam Hann-Byrd) er i besiddelse af helt usædvanlige evner: Som syvårig maler han, spiller fremragende på klaver og løser indviklede matematiske opgaver. En skole for højt begavede børn vil hellere end gerne have Fred som elev, men Dede har visse betænkeligheder. Den lille mand har mavesår, fordi han bekymrer sig om ozonlaget, han har ingen legekammerater, sådan som normale børn har det, og han skriver digte om døden.
Eleven strategically minded players, chosen not just for their high intellectual prowess but also their social IQ, participate in never before seen games designed to not only test their intellect but encourage them to carefully and creatively use the art of manipulation to outfox their opponents and win a cash prize.
The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name. Made for CBBC, the drama was first broadcast between 1996 and 1998. The first series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 2 to 18 January 1996, the second series contained seven episodes, and aired once a week from 25 September to 6 November 1996, and the third series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 6 to 22 January 1998. School location scenes in the first series were filmed at Hatch End High School, in Hatch End, Harrow, North West London and The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Other scenes were filmed around West London and the Vulcan Tower is in fact the Atrium building in Uxbridge. CGI was used to make this building appear on a traffic island close to Warwick Avenue tube station. Some scenes in the later series were filmed in the village of Sarratt, Hertfordshire and other locations in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
