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	Quatermass (1979) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quatermass (also known as The Quatermass Conclusion or Quatermass IV) is a British television science-fiction serial, the fourth and final instalment in the famous Quatermass series.
		Quatermass is intrigued by the behaviour of a group of hippie-like youngsters known as the 'Planet People', who are gathering from across the country at various neolithic sites, led by the taciturn 'Kickalong'.
		This was in a serial entitled The Quatermass Memoirs, a drama-documentary which mixed the telling of the real-life story of the Quatermass serials with the fictional strand of Quatermass writing his memoirs in the Scottish Highlands, set at a time slightly before this final televised story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quatermass_(1979) (1846 words)

	Bernard Quatermass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional character, created by the writer Nigel Kneale originally for BBC Television, who appeared in three influential BBC science fiction serials of the 1950s, and made his swansong in a final serial for Thames Television in 1979.
		Quatermass and the scientist Joe Kapp establish that an alien force is causing the downturn of society and Quatermass forms a plan to force the intruder away by the detonation of a nuclear device: he presses the button to detonate it himself, and is killed in the blast as the planet is saved.
		At the time of Quatermass and the Pit, the character's reach was such that the two most popular comedy programmes of the day, radio's The Goon Show and television's Hancock's Half Hour, both parodied the serial in episodes of their programmes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Quatermass (1797 words)

	The Quatermass Conclusion - Episode Guide
		Professor Bernard Quatermass has been a recluse in Scotland, but returns to the chaos of London to appear on a BTV show covering the American-Russian link-up in space project.
		Quatermass, Kapp and Kapp's wife Clare have seen the obliteration by a beam of light from the skis of the Planet People at Ringstone Round.
		Quatermass tries to warn the authorities, knowing it is the harvesting of the human race.
	www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/8504/tvqback.htm (518 words)

	Quatermass II - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Quatermass II is a British television science-fiction serial, the second in the popular and influential Quatermass series written by Nigel Kneale.
		It was first transmitted on BBC Television in the autumn of 1955, and is the first of the Quatermass serials to survive in its entirety in the BBC archives.
		The first serial in the series, The Quatermass Experiment, had been an extremely popular and critically well-received hit for the BBC in the summer of 1953, and the Corporation were very keen for a sequel.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Quatermass_II (1362 words)

	Television Heaven
		The story of the four Quatermass serials span three decades of television history, the original three being produced by the BBC in the 1950s and the belated fourth and final adventure for the independent company, Thames Television in 1979.
		The year was 1979, and although twenty years had passed since his last adventure, Professor Quatermass's final appearance was as much rooted in -and reflected the anxieties and paranoia of a new generation, as the previous three had for the generation before.
		Although Quatermass eventually defeats the threat as he had done so often in the past, this time the price paid is the ultimate one, as the strain causes the professor to succumb to a final, fatal heart attack.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /quatermass.htm (2015 words)

	Quatermass. Who is Quatermass? What is Quatermass? Where is Quatermass? Definition of Quatermass. Meaning of Quatermass.
		Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional character, created by Nigel Kneale, who appeared in three influential BBC science fiction series of the 1950s, and made his swansong in a final series for Thames Television in 1979.
		Quatermass is a British scientist who continually finds himself confronting sinister alien forces that threaten to destroy humanity.
		Quatermass, aka The Quatermass Conclusion in an abridged version, starring John Mills as Quatermass ( 1979)
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Quatermass (205 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Quatermass
		Kapp drives Quatermass to his countryside radio astronomy facility and introduces him to his wife Clare (Barbara Kellerman, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), her two children, and two other astronomers.
		Quatermass is a handsomely mounted miniseries in four parts that was broadcast on British television in 1979.
		The first three Quatermass films are remarkably good, especially given their age and low budgets, and they have a multitude of fans, of which I am one.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/quatermass.php (1744 words)

	screenonline: Quatermass (1979) Synopsis
		When the interviewer asks Quatermass his feelings about the space station, he launches into an attack on US corruption and Russian tyranny, predicting the collaboration will end in disaster, before taking out a photograph of his granddaughter and appealing for help to find her.
		Quatermass asks them if they have seen his granddaughter, but they are hostile and uninterested.
		Quatermass tries to reason with the mob, but the situation quickly deteriorates into a riot.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/442672/synopsis.html (415 words)

	Video Review @ Stomp Tokyo - Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
		Quatermass first appeared in a British television mini-series entitled The Quatermass Experiment in 1953, and he continued to fight super-scientific threats until 1979.
		Quatermass and the Pit was the last of Quatermass' cinematic adventures, and was based on a 1955 TV serial of the same name.
		The interactions between Quatermass, the anal-retentive Col. Breen, and the unassuming Dr. Roney (James Donald) are terrific.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/q/quatermass-and-the-pit.html (738 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Quatermass (Disc 1 of 2) (1979)
		The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name.
		Like the earlier Quatermass projects of the 1950s and 1960s, the guiding force behind Conclusion was prolific screenwriter Nigel Kneale, though the series (and the film) hardly represent his best work.
		Quatermass' quandary is the sudden disappearance of several London youths.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=117562 (177 words)

	The Quatermass Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953.
		It was the first of four Quatermass serials to be screened on British television between 1953 and 1979.
		Quatermass and his allies have to chase the rapidly transforming Caroon across London before he can wreak havoc, and corner him in Westminster Abbey as he fully transforms into a terrifying creature that will destroy the world...
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-Quatermass-Experiment.htm (1176 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Quatermass: Set 1 (2 Discs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Drawing on 25 years of Quatermass legacy through films and television, Kneale and Haggard are uncompromising in their depiction of anarchy, decay, and desperate pockets of hope, and Mills is brilliant in his title role as a genius devoted to saving what's left of humanity.
		This is conceptually the most ambitious of the Quatermass stories: Kneale sets it in a world afflicted everywhere by social and economic collapse and - this is a key element in the unfolding story - the withdrawal of young people, especially adolescents, from all communal ties.
		Quatermass, coming to London from the countryside to seek a lost grandchild and drawn into the investigation of events, theorizes about "the harvesting of mankind." He is aided by an astrophysicist played by Simon McCorkindale, whom many viewers will recognize as a screen presence of the time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007TKNOM (1816 words)

	Definition of 1979
		While 1979 may have marked the climax of disco, it was also...
		1: The '''Scotland referendum of 1979 ''' was a post-legislative [[referendum]] held in...
		The Scotland Act 1978 was repealed, in March 1979 by 301-206.
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	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Quatermass Xperiment (Region 2)
		The Quatermass stories are the creation of Manxman Nigel Kneale, and with each story he delved deeper and more intelligently into areas of science fiction frequently explored in literature but almost never on television and even less so in films.
		Quatermass (American actor Brian Donlevy), head of the Rocket Group and under pressure from both the press and the British government for answers concerning the unsanctioned flight, investigates.
		The Quatermass Xperiment 's strengths are the vividness and intelligence of Neale's storytelling, and the sense of urgency given the film version by director and co-screenwriter Val Guest.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/152705 (1061 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, "Quatermass" (1979)
		My first introduction to the adventures of Professor Quatermass was as a kid, when QUATERMASS AND THE PIT about scared me to death.
		He has come to condemn the entire proceedings, saying that the Russian and US superpowers are "full of diseases," and that the space station "will come to nothing...sooner than they think." He pulls a photograph of a teenage girl from his pocket and holds it in front of the television camera.
		Quatermass, Kapp and his wife Clare (Barbara Kellerman) follow one such group to Ringstone Round, a megalithic site smaller than but similar to Stonehenge.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/quatermass.html (1832 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Quatermass - Chapters 1 To 4 / The Conclusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Written by Nigel Kneale, as were all the Quatermass stories, this was an intelligent extrapolation of 1970's industrial-strife-ridden Britain, a continuation of the apocalyptic British SF tradition of John Wyndham ( The Day of the Triffids was serialised by the BBC two years later).
		Nigel Kneale, instead of his usual way of slowly taking Quatermass from the normal world into the para-normal, starts us off in a post-Thatcher England (not really, as this was done in 79), yet so terrifying even by today's standards, that I can't imagine what effect it must have had back then.
		Quatermass' goal in thi story appears to be, believe it or not, the solemn search for his lost granddaughter.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008OP7B (1587 words)

	Bernard Quatermass - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Only one of the crew, Victor Caroon, remains, and he has been taken over by an alien presence, forcing Quatermass to eventually destroy him and the other two crewmembers who have been absorbed into him.
		Quatermass and the Pit became an iconic piece of television science-fiction, pioneering many of the hidden alien legacy themes that would go on to inform such programmes as The X-Files many decades later.
		Also, in the 1988 serial Remembrance of the Daleks, in the midst of the storyline (set in 1963) the military scientific adviser character Rachel remarks to her colleague Alison: "I wish Bernard was here." Alison replies "British Rocket Group's got its own problems..."
	www.iridis.com /Bernard_Quatermass (1603 words)

	Quatermass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Perhaps the reason for the popularity of the character and the films/shows is that the Quatermass stories are the best kind of SciFi: both intelligent and fantastic, short on monsters and long on brains, all made with a great deal of style that have belied the low budgets.
		When youths around the world begin disappearing from these places leaving nothing but ashes and dust, Quatermass investigates, partly from a desire to understand what is happening, and partly in an attempt to locate his granddaughter, who he believes has become one of them.
		Kneale has aged the character: now a grandfather, Quatermass is no longer as physically dynamic as he was in the earlier stories, but he is no less brilliant and no less determined as he investigates the latest of the incredible events that have informed his life.
	www.classicsondvd.com /quatermass.htm (630 words)

	Quatermass (1979)
		Plot : The aging Professor Quatermass travels to a future London where society is decaying at the edges to take part in a tv commentary for an historical Russian-American space linkup.
		Quatermass becomes fascinated by the Planet People, a counter-culture movement in which youth en masse follow lei-lines across the country to ancient megalithic sites.
		This Quatermass is even a different person in the casting of John Mills, a diminutive man who is almost the complete antithesis of brutish Brian Donlevy from the first two Quatermass films or the more authoritative Andrew Keir in
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/quatermass4.htm (648 words)

	Quartermass
		In it Quatermass learns that an archaeological discovery made during routine subway expansion means nothing less than humanity itself is not what we have believed.
		Commercial television was ready, however, and in 1979, at the conclusion of a 75 day ITV strike, the four part Quatermass debuted with John Mills starring as the now elderly professor in his final adventure.
		Only the serial's opening sequence, involving Quatermass deriding a U.S.-U.S.S.R. "Skylab 2," displays the force of the earlier serials: a moment after Quatermass blurts out his words in a live television interview, the studio monitors are filled with the image of "Skylab 2" blowing to pieces.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Q/htmlQ/quartermass/quartermass.htm (1080 words)

	Quatermass by Nigel Kneale
		Old Professor Bernard Quatermass, once a pioneer of space research himself, grabs the chance to appear on a bankrupt TV network to denounce the wasteful Russo-American project...
		For Quatermass it is only the beginning of a long horror.
		For Quatermass it is the beginning of a long horror - a terrifying paranormal power has begun to afflict the Earth.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /john.seymour1/ukbookguide/Series/Quatermass/quatermass.html (328 words)

	Quatermass Xperiment
		The plot tells the story of professor Bernard Quatermass, the man who sent into space the first manned British rocket, and his investigations about the disappearance of two astronauts in its return.
		Victor Carroon, the only surviving astronaut, was affected by an enigmatic alien organism that caused mysterious alterations in his body, and was slowly possessed by the powerful extraterrestrial force.
		The Quatermass author, Nigel Kneale, was not too happy about the new versions reduction to 82 minutes.
	www.wkonline.com /a/Quatermass_Xperiment_B00004YRX0.htm (783 words)

	Moviefone: Quatermass Movie
		Synopsis: The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name.
		Quatermass is an impressive character, played by two different actors.
		Quatermass and the Pit was the last Quatermass movie to be produced by Hammer, although after its release Kneale did pitch a storyline to the company for a...
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	Boxoffice Magazine [Quatermass (1979)]
		In a stroke of ironic and sad timing, A&E has released the 1979 "Quatermass", dubbing it "The Legendary '70s Sci-Fi Classic," almost concurrently with the death of its star, Sir John Mills.
		Mills stars as Professor Bernard Quatermass -- the same that was previously popularized in a variety of previous efforts, including some very good ones by the Hammer people -- who must somehow figure out how to avert an impending Armageddon and deflect the extraterrestrial threat that's zapping the earth's youth.
		The theatrical release, which runs roughly half that length and is also included here, is called "The Quatermass Conclusion." Both are good, and both work within their running times and parameters.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/dvd.asp?where=ID&terms=6427 (239 words)

	Quatermass [1979] @ EOFFTV
		Quatermass struggles to find his grand-daughter, make sense of the mayhem around him and find a way to stop the alien cull.
		Not universally liked when it was first shown, Quatermass has matured well, its vision of a futuristic Britian in the grip of anarchy and mayhem not dissimilar to the scenes of inner city riots that were to become a depressingly familiar sight during the 1980s and 90s.
		Despite handicapped by a number of poor performances and a tendency to stereotype, Quatermass is a more than worthy conclusion to the ongoing saga of Britain's greatest fictional scientist.
	www.eofftv.com /q/quat/quatermass_main.htm (403 words)

	Quatermass
		In 1953, the original Quatermass series became the first full-scale science fiction serial on British television.
		It has a fault in its controls, and its crew loses contact with the scientist who designed it, Professor Bernard Quatermass, who leads the mission control operations on the ground.
		After contact is restored, the rocket crash-lands in Wimbledon, and Quatermass and his British Experimental...
	www.tv.com /quatermass/show/6966/summary.html (141 words)

	The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
		Quatermass realizes that Carroon has been taken over by an alien energy being that has no form and absorbs everything it touches into its mass.
		It also allows the scale of the story to be expanded somewhat - the teleplay climaxed with Quatermass talking to the monster and convincing the devoured astronauts inside to assert themselves, while this mounts a much more pyrotechnic climax with Quatermass incinerating the creature by electrifying workman’s scaffolds in Westminster Abbey.
		In this film though Quatermass is miscast with Brian Donlevy who gives a snapping and quite unlikable bulldog of a performance.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/quatermass1.htm (1237 words)

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