ADVENTURE ONE: PILOT. (NEVER SCREENED OR RELEASED. Produced in 2000 as a basis
for a proposed series for professional TV sales.)
(31 minutes).
Written by Adrian Sherlock.
Directors: Chris Langman, James Kalish.
Cast: Bruce Hughes as Damon, Fiona Harris as Verushka, Katrina Mathers as Helen, Randall Berger as the Coordinator of
Department Six, Matt Norman as Harrison.
PLOT: A ghost sighting turns out to be Damon's son Adam, coming back from 20 years in the future when
aliens rule a devastated Earth. He begs his father to save the future. When a UFO lands, the nightmare seems to be starting.
Damon and Verushka investigate and capture alien possessed human Harrison. Damon then tries to patch up his failing relationship
with Helen, who he now realises is pregnant with the unborn Adam. But when the alien zombies take Helen prisoner, and a massive
neutron bomb is discovered, Damon faces a terrible choice...
NOTES: Although filmed after the Channel 31 series as a professional TV pilot, this story was concieved
as the very beginning, telling the story of how Damon and Verushka first learn of an alien threat to Earth, while working
for Department Six, a secret service branch which looks into the "fringe cases".
Damon Dark is seen as the Agent who pushes the boundaries of his role, due to his passionate belief in the existance of
the aliens and the unknown powers of the unexplained, seeking to discover his true destiny, to save the Earth.
Meanwhile the Coordinator is cautious and reluctant, not wanting Damon involved until there is real proof that aliens
are coming to Earth.
The crushing ending, with Damon's personal life tragically affected by the alien plans to conquer our world, commits
him once and for always to the fight against the invaders. Bruce Hughes is excellent as Damon and Langman and Kalish direct
with high energy and genuine flair.
ADVENTURE TWO: TIMESLIP. (AIRED ON CHANNEL 31, 1999. Produced in 1996 as a semi-pro pilot
to launch the series format).
(20 minutes)
Writen and Directed by Adrian Sherlock.
Cast: Adrian Sherlock as Damon, Susan Leigh Anderson as Candy Ryan, Rob Philips as Agent Patrick.
PLOT: Damon and Candy arrive back from a UFO investigation and find they cannot contact D-6 HQ. When
they reach the base, everyone is dead...including themselves! They realise they are one day into the future. By retracing
their journey they pass back through the time slip into the previous day, but their assassin, Agent Patrick, follows them.
The next morning, they return to HQ where two Patricks, one from the future and one from the present, confront them.
When they walk through the door this time, will they find themselves alive or dead?
NOTES: Shot as the first Pilot, this is a semi-professional production, and features moody lighting,
intense acting and grisly horror make up FX. It was a very good pilot episode and it convinced ERA TV to support a series
of Damon Dark for Channel 31. It screened first on 31 in September 1999, 11 PM on a Thursday night.
ADVENTURE THREE: MADDOX Parts one, two and three.
(AIRED CHANNEL 31, 1999, Produced 98/9 for Channel 31).
(3 x 25 minutes).
Written by Adrian Sherlock.
Directed by Karl Seimon.
Cast: Adrian Sherlock as Damon, Niobe Dean as Veruca, Andrew Dunn as Maddox and Steve MacPhaill as The Coordinator. With
Ben Dixon, Keith Cooke and George Ivanoff.
PLOT:
D-6 Agent Veruca Stone is about to take fellow Agent and boyfriend Jason Tanner (Ivanoff) home to meet her parents, but
as she makes a call on her mobile, he goes berserk and almost throws her in front of a train! He attacks Damon, who races
to Veruca's aid, and then collapses and dies of a brain haemorrhage.
The autopsy reveals a brain implant.
They follow up his last case, the media tycoon Simon Maddox, who has been busy launching cable TV satelites and building
phone towers.
Damon and Veruca mistrust Maddox and learn he has a fixation with UFOs. Bizarrely, Maddox was diagnosed with HIV and
his wife and child both died of AIDS.
Damon sends Agents Harker and Vincent to check out a UFO at a local beach, but they disappear!
When they confront Maddox, he denies any knowledge of the aliens or the missing men. When they return to HQ, Damon and
Veruca find their boss has turned against them! They decide on a plan of action.
Veruca breaks into Maddox's house and finds the men, now like zombies. They attack her and Damon goes to find her, only
to be overpowered. He learns Maddox was cured of AIDS by aliens, and they are now using cellular phone towers and his satelite
to control people with implants.
Damon escapes back to D-6, where the whol team are under alien control and they close in around him...
Damon is drugged and taken to Maddox's house where the unhinged tycoon plots to infect Veruca with a mutant strain of
HIV and use her to spread it to others, in a bid to wipe out half the human race.
Damon fights his own friend, Vincent and kills him, and a leaked rumour about job cuts to Maddox's media employees causes
a strike and the alien signals are cut off.
The aliens strike back by giving Maddox psychic powers to use against D-6. he torments Damon and Veruca as he develops
a full-blown God complex! But the Coordinator arrives in time to distract him. Maddox is injected with the AIDS mutant as
the Agents escape.
In the climax, Maddox returns to the beach where the alien ship rests in the sea. He now no longer needs the aliens and
intends to part the waters of the sea and destroy them with his mind.
First, he sends his mind down the phone line and zaps the Coordinator, then teleports Damon to the beach and makes him
kneel.
But as he tries it on the aliens, Maddox has a heart attack and dies, discoverng that despite his power, he is just a
man of flesh and blood after all!
IT'S AFTER ME. (SCREENED ON CHANNEL 31, 1999)
Damon recovers from the last mission while staying at his Mother's house, while she is away in hospital. Awaking from
a nightmare, Damon realises the phone has been cut off and the TV is unable to recieve outside signals. An alien presence
is closing in, the same creature who came to Earth in the ship in the sea, the creature who made a pact with Maddox. It now
blames Damon for turning Maddox against it, and it has turned into a duplicate of Damon in order to kill him and impersonate
him and wipe out Department Six.
Hunted by his evil twin, Damon hides. But the Chameleon assassin changes into a familiar shape.
Damon sees the door of the garage open and his Mother enters. Is it her? Or an alien? As it comes closer and closer,
he reaches for a knife....
NOTES: This epic four part story was screened on Channel 31 as Maddox Part One, Two and Three and It's
After Me. The story of Maddox has since been edited down to a single 30 minute adventure. It took three months to shoot and
was originally 65 minutes.
