The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name.
Other scenes were filmed around West London, and the Vulcan Tower is in fact the building for Atrium in Uxbridge.
A direct sequel of the original series began airing on CBBC from 14 October 2019, with Nicholas Gleaves playing the titular character.
Dinah Glass moves in with the Hunter family and starts going to the same school as her foster brothers Lloyd and Harvey.
Pupils suddenly talk like robots and do weird things, even Dinah finds herself acting oddly.
Dinah's father is headhunted for a new job at the Biogenetic Research Centre, but the Demon Headmaster is the director.
When the army starts dismantling the biogenetic research centre Dinah contacts Professor Claudia Rowe, who is an expert on biology and genetics at the nearby university.
People start talking like robots, even Claudia Rowe, and more and more of them seem to be wearing strange badges.