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	BBC - BBC Four Drama - The Quatermass Experiment
		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.
		Alison: Quatermass was the first ever sci-fi on British TV and Professor Quatermass was our first TV hero.
		Alison: Quatermass was originally shot live because the technology wasn't there to pre-record.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/quatermass.shtml (1001 words)

	quatermassexp
		Quatermass tells the reporters that the other Astronauts are missing, and then he, Paterson and Marsh look inside the space craft, Paterson claims that there is evidence to suggest that the hatch has remained shut throughout the whole mission, Quatermass dismisses this, as he is trying to mislead the police.
		Quatermass and Briscoe examine the reporters shrunken body, and also check the cactus remains, Quatermass believes that Caroon is undergoing a biological change and urges Lomax to start a full extensive search for him.
		Quatermass reads Briscoe's report on the examination of the reporters body, the energy was absorbed and the body was broken down into it's basic constituents.
	users.metronet.co.uk /cultv/quatermassexp.htm (2140 words)

	The Quatermass Experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953, and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005.
		Quatermass and his allies have to chase the rapidly transforming Carroon 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...
		The Quatermass Experiment gained very favourable viewing figures for 1953, opening with an estimated audience of 3.4 million people for the first episode, building to 5 million for the sixth and final episode, with an overall average of 3.9 million for the entire serial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment (1917 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 (1825 words)

	THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT 2005 \| A TELETRONIC CLASSIC TV REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the summer of 1953 the massed viewing audience of the United Kingdom saw the premiere of an innovative science-fiction series which delivered a stunning jolt to their collective imagination akin to being hit in the face by a wall of chilling, ice-cold arctic water.
		In the final analysis, while the Quatermass Experiment 2005 is on the whole a success.
		It was a brave experiment that, while far from perfect in outcome, was most definitely an experiment well worth undertaking again.
	www.teletronic.co.uk /quatermass.htm (931 words)

	DVD Times - The Quatermass Collection
		Quatermass is an establishment figure, a member of a benevolent elite, more intelligent, educated and clear-sighted, and better qualified to make decisions on behalf of an excitable, easily led mass.
		Roy Ward Baker’s Hammer remake of Quatermass and The Pit was released in 1967.
		Quatermass 2 and the Quatermass experiment are worthwhile - the former is more along the lines of invasion of the bodysnatchers, but Pit is the real star of the show.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=59045 (3027 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Quatermass and the Pit" is the third of three science fiction serials chronicling the adventures of Professor Bernard Quatermass produced by the BBC in the 1950s.
		Quatermass is in London for a conference at the War Office, where he is to meet with the Minister of Defense and colleagues on the future of the British Rocket Group, which Professor Quatermass founded and has directed since its inception.
		Professor Quatermass is of course furious at this perversion of his Rocket Group, which he always intended for "peaceful scientific exploration." Unfortunately, the decision has been made, and one Colonel Breen (Anthony Bushell) has been assigned to join Professor Quatermass at the Rocket Group to oversee the transition to military authority (i.e.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/quatermasspit58.html (2541 words)

	The Complete Quatermass - DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thankfully, both Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit survive intact, although the former is a technically poor recording - often out of focus, lacking detail and subject to fluctuations in brightness and contrast.
		The Quatermass Experiment understandably looks its age although there are moments of real drama and tension when it becomes clear that the surviving astronaut appears to have the memories of his missing colleagues.
		Quatermass II remains the blueprint for conspiracy theories and boasts moments of genuine shock and tension - the thing in the tank (apparently a rubber glove in some BBC canteen soup although you’d never know).
	www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /reviews/dvd/05-04-04_CompleteQuatermass.htm (415 words)

	Quatermass
		Bernard Quatermass is the creation of screenwriter Nigel Kneale (1922-) for what was to be the first great sci-fi television serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and changed the fortunes of the struggling Hammer studios when it was adapted for the big screen as The Quatermass Xperiment to emphasise its X certificate rating in 1955.
		Quatermass any good, because every time he got involved he wound up confronting some invasion from outer space of the singularly nasty variety that left him more embittered about his stalled career and the fate of humanity.
		Quatermass is a pioneer who is dedicated to the conquest of space.
	www.davidszondy.com /future/Dystopias/quatermass.htm (347 words)

	Television Heaven
		The Quatermass Experiment told the tale Professor Bernard Quatermass (Reginald Tate), head of the British Rocket Research Group, and the deadly after effects which arise when an experimental spaceship with a three-man crew is deflected hundreds of thousands of miles off-course, before finally returning to Earth.
		The Quatermass Experiment was to be the first of several successful collaborations between the writer and celebrated producer/director Rudolph Cartier.
		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)

	Professor Bernard Quatermass
		Quatermass and his team had predicted the landing area, and rushed to the crash site, but were shocked to find only one survivor, Victor Carroon, with the other two astronauts not dead, but missing!
		Quatermass suspected the thing to be a Martian which had come to Earth more than five million years earlier, theorising that the aliens had visited our planet to modify the brains' of man's ancestors for some sinister purpose.
		Quatermass determined that the aliens were harvesting mankind as a source of food, and with Joe he worked to stop this.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /q/quatmass.htm (1322 words)

	Quatermass
		A dose of Quatermass: "The Quatermass Conclusion" is the fourth movie-length installment in the long-lived "Professor Quatermass" series of films, the first of which appeared fifty years ago with Brian Donlevy in the title role.
		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.
		Quatermass 2 Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is involved in a road accident with a young couple and the man appears to have been affected by a meteorite that fell from the sky.
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /B0007TKNOM/Quatermass.html (1829 words)

	The Quatermass Trilogy - A Controlled Paranoia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is involved in a road accident with a young couple and the man appears to have been affected by a meteorite that fell from the sky.
		Quatermass deduces that the arthropods are Martians who performed selective breeding on Earth hominids to increase their intelligence, changing the course to evolution to produce Homo sapiens and thereby colonizing the Earth by proxy.
		In The Quatermass Xperiment there is the physiological deterioration of Carroon whose arm resembles an exfoliating cancer, the gelatinous remains of the missing crew members, the slime the creature leaves in its wake and the deformed bodies of those humans and animals it has drained of life resembling victims of atomic radiation.
	members.aol.com /cinemabritain/quatermass.html (6662 words)

	The Quatermass Xperiment -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was produced by the (additional info and facts about Hammer Films) Hammer Films company, who changed the title to The Quatermass Xperiment with the strange spelling in order to play on the film's X-certificate status, claiming that it was the first British-made movie to have received such a classification.
		It is also of special interest today as a complete copy of the original BBC television version of the story no longer exists, although Quatermass creator (additional info and facts about Nigel Kneale) Nigel Kneale did not like the film version and was particularly displeased with Donlevy's performance in the lead role.
		The plot of the film appears to have been a major influence on the 1999 (additional info and facts about Johnny Depp) Johnny Depp movie The Astronaut's Wife, although it is not known whether the film really was an inspiration or whether this is merely coincidence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_quatermass_xperiment.htm (400 words)

	Cult TV Store - The Quatermass Collection - The Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 / Quatermass And The Pit - DVD
		Quatermass II (1955) takes advantage of a further two years of technological development in TV and is a more accomplished production than the first, with ambitious and effective location filming and pioneering visual effects work from Jack Kine and Bernard Wilkie.
		Quatermass himself is less memorable, played this time by John Robinson, who was drafted in at short notice after the sad death of Reginald Tate during the serial's pre-production.
		Quatermass is this time played by Andre Morell, who could have been made for the part, and he is given excellent support by Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton and Christine Finn.
	www.culttv.net /store/info.php?asin=B000772838 (1454 words)

	Britmovie - The Quatermass Xperiment 1955
		The title, The Quatermass Xperiment, was a marketing device designed to draw a prospective audience's attention to its status as an X certificate film.
		The Quatermass Xperiment opens when a rocket crashes near a cottage in the country, two of the astronauts are missing with only their empty spacesuits remaining.
		The sole survivor is Victor Carroon (Richard Wordsworth), the astronaut victim of Professor Quatermass's (Brian Donleavy's) failed rocket experiment.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/fiction/filmography/008.html (211 words)

	Quatermass
		The three Quatermass serials - The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958) - were produced by the legendary Rudolph Cartier, in an era in which live television transmission was the norm and any kind of television recording system was still in its infancy.
		From an earlier experience of running the compilation version, Steve Roberts was aware that when the BBC re-edited the serial into the compilation format, they had actually gone back and cut-in the original 35mm insert films in place of the film-recorded versions of the same.
		Quatermass and the Pit had previously been released as a two-part compilation version by BBC Video on VHS in the mid-eighties and latterly the same master had been used in Revelation's DVD release.
	www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /rtwebsite/quatermass-article.htm (7945 words)

	BBC The Quatermass Experiment - Episode Guide
		It crashes back to Earth in Wimbledon, and Quatermass rushes to the scene with his team from the British Experimental Rocket Group.
		Quatermass takes the deeply disturbed Carroon back to the BR7 and plays him the tape recording of what happened to the crew whilst in space.
		Carroon's hand has fused with the cactus and mutated, and at the chemists he consumes substances that would kill a normal man. Briscoe and Quatermass find that the alien substance from the BR7 rocket absorbs all animal life.
	www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/8504/tvqe.htm (543 words)

	DVD Times - Quatermass
		The first three serials, The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit, were made by the BBC in the 1950s, but this story was produced by the independent company Euston Films (The Sweeney) and shown on ITV.
		A blinding beam of light descends on the circle and they all disappear, but to Quatermass and Kapp’s horror, their charred, ash-like remains are left scattered on the ground.
		Quatermass takes her back to London for tests, but she levitates from her hospital bed and explodes (a terrifying sequence, despite the visible wires).
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5325 (1967 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| A tale of British boffins
		After The Quatermass Experiment in 1953, the professor faced, in Quatermass 2, mind-controlling, oil-refinery-based gas creatures that were insinuating their way into Whitehall (sounds all too familiar).
		This, of course, was the very dawn of TV and despite the complex, clever nature of Kneale's scripts and the special effects, the first shows in 1953 were performed and broadcast live from Alexandra Palace.
		Quatermass, whether played by Reginald Tate or Andre Morell, had the authority of age, not to mention an RP accent so absurdly sharp you could slice a lemon with it.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/03/19/btwho19.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/03/19/ixtop.html (2014 words)

	Quatermass revisited
		BBC Four is to produce a live broadcast of the science fiction classic, The Quatermass Experiment.
		The Quatermass Experiment was a television phenomenon, attracting massive audiences when it burst into British homes in 1953.
		For aficionados of sci-fi and the paranormal, writer and creator Nigel Kneale is a hero and the Quatermass series is a landmark for British television, which led the way for future cult series such as Doctor Who.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /news/arc/2005/nz7677.php (461 words)

	missing episodes
		The Quatermass Experiment - Eps 1 and 2, 35mm Mechau film recordings with variable density optical soundtracks.
		Quatermass II - Eps 1 - 6, 35mm suppressed field FR's (except ep 3, 35mm Moye-Mechau FR) with variable area optical soundtracks.
		Quatermass and the Pit - Eps 1 - 6, 35mm stored field FR with variable area optical soundtracks.
	www.btinternet.com /~m.brown1/quater.htm (282 words)

	The Quatermass Collection - [Sunday Herald]
		Created by Nigel Kneale, Bernard Quatermass (played by Reginald Tate, John Robinson and Andre Morell respectively) is a rocket scientist who begins this cycle dreaming of putting men into space and ends fighting to prevent his work being co-opted by the military.
		Quatermass II suggests State Of Play over-run by Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, while Quatermass And The Pit conjures a mind-bending stew of folklore, religion, the occult and anthropology.
		That kind of communal experience is gone, but, as these recordings work their spell, you feel a whisper of it.
	www.sundayherald.com /48758 (466 words)

	Quatermass Experiment, The / Quatermass 2 [1957] — Compare Product Prices & Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They all involve very different kinds of invasions of Earth by completely unrelated aliens and in each case, it's the brilliant and resourceful Quatermass whose involvement is crucial in the fight against the...
		As a young teen here in the States, I saw "Quatermass 2" in a local theater and thought it to be superior film-making.
		Quatermass - Chapters 1 To 4 / The Conclusion
	www.onlinereviewers.co.uk /store/asinsearch_B0001DI57Q.htm (390 words)

	Plokta News Network - Now with added blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Only 2 episodes of The Quatermass Experiment remain but Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit are complete.
		Why Episodes 3-6 of The Quatermass Experiment are missing is something of a mystery and the current explanation is that filming was discontinued because the prints of Episodes 1-2 were disappointing.
		He explains that the stills in the Quatermass Experiment and Quatermass and the Pit Penquin script books are (generally) 35mm stills taken on-set during rehearsal.
	www.plokta.com /pnn/stories.php?story=05/02/16/3841516 (394 words)

	Welcome to MVC.co.uk Quatermass Experiment & Quatermass II - Digipak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Professor Quatermass returns to face another enemy from space in this spellbinding sequel to The Quatermass Experiment.
		Aliens have embarked on a stealthy invasion of Earth, and Quatermass is unsure who to trust or where to turn in his efforts to save humanity once again.
		Quatermass 2 - An original film trailer from 'Enemy From Space', Audio Commentary with writer Nigel Kneale and director/co-writer Val Guest, Specially filmed with Val Guest, 24-page booklet and viewing notes featuring rare stills and information about the film.
	www.mvc.co.uk /common/product.jhtml?pid=30017510 (307 words)

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