One night in a hotel room in Seattle in the early 1990s, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote the novel Good Omens, made a plan for how they would bring their beloved tale to TV.
Fans pored over every scene and quickly noticed the many references and homages to Pratchett – from his hat and scarf taking pride of place in Aziraphale's bookshop to how his wishes were honoured in the scripts.
After Pratchett's death, his wishes have lived on, as he has a representative in Rob Wilkins who worked first as the author's personal assistant and later as his business manager.
Speaking exclusively to Radio Times, Wilkins explained: "If I said I was here to make sure Terry's voice was heard, that's wrong because Terry's voice is here, it's everywhere. My presence is Terry's presence and that's what I bring to the set."
He adds: "He would be most proud of the detail and the love that is compressed into this that everybody puts into it and it's lovely to see that everybody respects the written word and here we are turning the written word into this."
"Witchfinder General Pratchett!" he declares. "With a brandy in his hand, a hat on his head. That's how he should be. That was a surprise. I didn't know that was happening until it was there and it's really quite emotional, so Terry's not just here in spirit, he's actually here."
It's not just the portrait in the pub – Pratchett is everywhere on set if you look for him.
Set designer Michael Ralph tells us: "This is Terry's hat and Terry's scarf. Everyday we film here it's left in the shop, and it's always put in a safe at night. But it's always there."
There are smaller references too. In the coffee shop, Give Me Coffee...Or Give Me Death, producer Sarah-Kate Fenelon points out, amid a sea of graffiti, the name Terry scrawled on the wall.
Tennant previously told Digital Spy: "We were always talking about Terry Pratchett and how Terry Pratchett had written half of the original novel and who desperately wanted this to happen. This was, in a sense, a dying wish of his, to bring this to the screen."
"Yeah, he's always around," she said. "Again, the first day of filming around the monitors was his hat on his chair, so – it's giving me goosebumps! He was there and he is there.
She added: "It was Neil and Terry's universe in the beginning, they created it together and now we only have Neil, who is made of magic, so it's pretty good – there's no undersell here – but it's important that it's always both of their worlds because, just what a magnificent thing to put those two brains together. Aren't we all lucky?"
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