The Quatermass Experiment : Rev 2.0

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THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT
Sam Miller, UK, 2005
Saturday 2 April 2005 8.20pm-10.20pm (LIVE); Wednesday 6 April 9pm-11pm

As part of TV On Trial, BBC Four is recreating a cult classic, first transmitted live in 1953 and since lost in the archives. In the BBC Four version, to be performed live, Jason Flemyng stars as Professor Bernard Quatermass, whose attempts to push back the frontiers of space lead to terrifying consequences. When a rocket returns from its m*****n with only one of the crew still alive it soon becomes clear that something is terribly wrong...
blimey, you wish they'd write some NEW stuff don't you?

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Retro television or what? Resurrected DW, and now this...?

Anyway, sounds like the Pertwee episode Ambassadors of Death to me. :roll:
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Quatermass And The Pit is still a fine movie, check it out folks.
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timsinister wrote:Retro television or what? Resurrected DW, and now this...?

Anyway, sounds like the Pertwee episode Ambassadors of Death to me. :roll:
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That's bizarre - my old mum (old being the operative word here ;D ) was going on about that programme the other day... how it scared the bejesus out of her when she was a little 'un. On and on - utterly terrifying, apparently...

I made the obligatory comments about "You mean to say TV had been invented when you were born?" etc... :innocent:
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James Blast wrote:Clicky! :D
Made in 1967 and filmed in glorious technicolor, the film starred Andrew Keir as Quatermass, Barbara Shelley as Barbara, Julian Glover as Breen and James Donald as Roney. The setting was changed from a building site to one of the new tube stations being dug at the time. It was by far the best adaptation of Kneale's television work, and light years away from the giant jelly- monsters witnessed in "QUATERMASS 2".
That's the only one I've seen, and rather good it was too!
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