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The role of Quatermass was featured in three influential BBC science fiction serialsof the 1950s, and again in a final serial for Thames Televisionin 1979. A remake of the first serial appeared on BBC Fourin 2005. The character also appeared in films, on the radio and in print over a fifty-year period.
This wasn't 'genre television' as a cult niche. They proved it could have a broad audience." Quatermass took science fiction and brought it to a captivated, not to say terrified, mass British ...
Quatermass (also known as Quatermass IV, or The Quatermass Conclusion for its limited international theatrical release) is a 1979 British television science fiction serial. Produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, it was broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979.
John Mills stars as Professor Quatermass, who investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult in a dystopian future. The series features alien beams, stone circles, Planet People and a space shuttle mission.
The serial was the first of four Quatermass productions to be screened on British television between 1953 and 1979. It was transmitted live from the BBC's original television studios at Alexandra Palace in north London, one of the final productions before BBC television drama moved to west London.
A scene from the new HD remaster of 'Quatermass and the Pit' - the classic BBC television chiller from writer Nigel Kneale and director Rudolph Cartier.
Jan 27, 2024 · Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's Quatermass serials, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called Quatermass.
