Quatermass (1979)

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. Written by Nigel Kneale, it was produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network in the autumn of 1979.

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For the first time, a novelisation of a Quatermass story was produced, written by Kneale himself, who had been an award-winning prose writer in the 1940s before turning to scriptwriting. Published by Arrow Books to coincide with the transmission of the serial, the novelisation contains several additional scenes and plot deviations, with Kneale telling the story more in the manner he would have liked to have told it but for the necessities of the television production.

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1940s - Arrow Books

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Although Quatermass had been killed off at the end of the serial, the character did return one last time on BBC radio in 1996. 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. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the role of Quatermass was voiced by Andrew Keir, who had previously played the part in Hammer's 1967 film version of Quatermass and the Pit.

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1996 - The Quatermass Memoirs - BBC Radio 3 - Andrew Keir - 1967 - Quatermass and the Pit

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In 2005 the character returned to BBC Television as digital station BBC Four recreated the original 1953 serial The Quatermass Experiment in a live broadcast. The re-staging starred Jason Flemyng as Quatermass.

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BBC Four - 1953 - The Quatermass Experiment - Jason Flemyng

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