The Quatermass serials...

[pip]

It is a mish mash of surviving material as QM says. Sadly only bits and pieces survive. Problem with the bloody DVD is it only says this in tiny letters on the back.

[Quatermass]

It is a mish mash of surviving material as QM says. Sadly only bits and pieces survive. Problem with the bloody DVD is it only says this in tiny letters on the back.

I believe that there were two remakes that survived, one done for Italian television, and a much abbreviated remake in the style of the remake of The Quatermass Experiment.

And I reckon that the people who created Species owe a lot to A for Andromeda.

[Quatermass]

ARISE, OH DEAD THREAD, ARRIIIIIIISE!!!

*coughing, retching*

Oh f**k me, yelling is bad for my throat.

Anyway, I'm necro'ing this thread, just in case anyone wants to add anything.

Well, I recently read the novelisation for the A for Andromeda sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough (the title of the novelisation, annoyingly, omits the 'The' at the start ).

[DaveC]

Thought this might interest you Q.

http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p1147

[Tiffany]

Okay, who here has actually watched any of the Quatermass serials from which I take my username? I've watched the two surviving episodes of the original The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass and the Pit, and the remake of The Quatermass Experiment. I also have scriptbooks for the first three serials, and the novelisation of the third. The first serial scriptbook was hardest to find, but I found it in an Oxfam bookshop near the British Museum (during a trip to the UK in 2009) for the princely sum of 6 pounds, or $15 Australian at the time.

I watched them all on TV at the time they were shown. It was compulsive viewing & they were even more scary at that time than Dr. Who.

[Tiffany]

Whoops, already added my tuppence worth previously. Never mind!

[Quatermass]

Thought this might interest you Q.

http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p1147

Huh.

Still, I can't find the Quatermass films in Australia. In fact, I tried to order the fourth and final serial through JB Hi-Fi, told that it was a deleted title with one copy left in Newcastle (I live a long way away from Newcastle), and then, I found out it was already put aside for some other customer.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Seen them all, The Quatermass Experiment I liked the best, the original B&W one.

[Quatermass]

Seen them all, The Quatermass Experiment I liked the best, the original B&W one.

That's the film, right? The serial no longer exists except as crappy telerecordings of the first two episodes...

[meerkat]

It was very scary in b/w! I was only young then.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Seen them all, The Quatermass Experiment I liked the best, the original B&W one.

That's the film, right? The serial no longer exists except as crappy telerecordings of the first two episodes...

it was on the Beeb in B&W a long time ago.

[Quatermass]

Seen them all, The Quatermass Experiment I liked the best, the original B&W one.

That's the film, right? The serial no longer exists except as crappy telerecordings of the first two episodes...

it was on the Beeb in B&W a long time ago.

I know, and I envy anyone who saw the whole serial. All I have is the scriptbook.

[pip]

Found an of copy of the Quatermass Experiment 1955 film on a friend of a friends computer . I'll get around to it at some point