Quartermass...

[Ontir]

I've just watched the first two episodes, and it's a really odd, but enthralling series. The title character is played by Sir John Mills, father of Hailey and Juliet, father-in-law to Maxwell Caulfield. Simon McCorkandale, in probably the best role of his career, plays a very Jewish (he makes multiple references to it, but I guess when you cast McCorkandale in the part...) scientist in a world well past the brink of diaster. Brenda Fricker is another of the scientists, caught in the thrall of the enigmatic Planet People, who are a weird cross between Flower Children, and the Heaven's Gate cult. I've no idea where it's headed, but it's one of the most interesting journeys I've undertaken recently!

[Howard Allan]

I've just watched the first two episodes, and it's a really odd, but enthralling series. The title character is played by Sir John Mills, father of Hailey and Juliet, father-in-law to Maxwell Caulfield. Simon McCorkandale, in probably the best role of his career, plays a very Jewish (he makes multiple references to it, but I guess when you cast McCorkandale in the part...) scientist in a world well past the brink of diaster. Brenda Fricker is another of the scientists, caught in the thrall of the enigmatic Planet People, who are a weird cross between Flower Children, and the Heaven's Gate cult. I've no idea where it's headed, but it's one of the most interesting journeys I've undertaken recently!

Try the movies: Quatermass and the Pit and 20 Million years to Earth. Both are reasonable Quatermass movies. You get a different guy playing Quatermass, but he's ok in the part.

[Ontir]

I just realized that there's no "R" before the "T," and that it's actually (as is said in the show:) Quatermass.

I actually got Quatermass & the Pit first, but the disk was damaged and it wouldn't play! :confused:

So I've gone onto the TV Show, and will get back to the films @ some point.

[king mob]

The BBC released a wonderful box set of all the surviving Quatermass serials from the 1950's, including the original Quatermass and the Pit which is simply fabulous.

Also worth searching out is the DVD of Beasts, a series Nigel Kneale wrote in the 1970's and although dated still stands up well.

[Ontir]

I'll check Netflix for Beasts. If it's as weird as his Quatermass, it should prove REALLY interesting!

[king mob]

'During Barty's Party' from Beasts is one of the best bits of drama ITV did in the 70's. Another Kneale play worth searching out is Year of the Sex Olympics which is a satire of reality tv made some 30 years before it became popular.