Doctor Who Vs. Quatermass and the Pit (1958)

"WE ARE THE MARTIANS!"

The third and final Quatermass serial was preserved by BBC archives in 1958 for potential repeat, and was shown again just a year later. BBC2 repeated the third episode, Imps 
and Demons, in November 1986 
as part of their TV50 season. 
The whole drama became available 
to view on BBC iPlayer today.

Professor Bernard Quatermass was now portrayed by Andre Morell
 (first offered the lead in 1953) who replaced the original choice of Alec
Clunes.
The scripts were inspired by Nigel
Kneale's concerns about racial
tensions in Britain, the Cold War,
and the military's abuse of science
and technology.

The writer again collaborated with director Rudolph Cartier, and the new production was transmitted live from Riverside Studios in Hammersmith,
whilst filmed inserts derived from Ealing Studios, and location filming shot
in Kensington. Hammer's version (with Andrew Keir in the title role) was
released in cinemas in 1967
In 1969, the new producer of Doctor Who, Derrick Sherwin acknowledged
that Kneale's works and this serial in particular, influenced the programme's
move towards realist, Earth-bound stories.
Although the BBC planned a fourth Quatermass drama in 1972, the project
was abandoned, and Kneale's scripts were eventually produced by Thames
TV in 1979.
The writer concluded the Professor's saga in The Quatermass Memoirs, first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 1996 - Keir reprised his film role.
The six-part sci-fi epic (described by BBC Online as "the finest thing the [Corporation] ever made") was shown live on Monday nights in December

1958 and January 1959, and featured Cec Linder (as Dr. Roney), Christine
Finn (Barbara Judd), Anthony Bushell (Colonel Breen), and thirty-four
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• John Stratton (Captain Potter) played Shockeye O' the Quawncing Grig in The Two Doctors
• Mark Eden, Eric Elliott and John Flint (Journalists) were the titular explorer in Marco Polo; Commander of The Ark; and William de Preaux in The Crusade, and Captain Urquhart in (part 1 of) Time Flight respectively
• Arthur Hewlett (Baines) was Kalmar in State of Decay, and Kimber in Terror of the Vervoids
• Clifford Cox and Brian Gilmar (Privates) were Sergeant in Spearhead from Space; and an Extra in Terror of the Autons and Colony in Space
• Michael Guest (Constable/Journalist/Sightseer) was a Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo (5), Saxon in The Time Meddler (1), and Interviewer in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• Bill Matthews (Sightseer/Man) was Davis in The Silurians, Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil, an uncredited Draconian in Frontier in Space, and Extra in Planet of the Spiders
• Walter Randall (Sightseer/Man) was Tonila in The Aztecs, El Akir in The Crusade, Hyksos in The Daleks' Master Plan, Patrolman in The Invasion, Harry Slocum in Inferno, and Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders
• Rex Rashley (Sightseer /Man) was an Extra in The Silurians, and an uncredited Coven Member in The Daemons
• Kenneth Seeger (Sightseer/Dr Klein/Man) was a Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen
• Elaine Williams and Nancy Adams (Sightseers/Women) were a Café Customer in City of Death; and Woman in Snakedance
• Richard Shaw (Sladden) was Lobos in The Daleks' Master Plan, Cross in Frontier in Space, and Lakh in Underworld
• Bernard Spear (Vendor) was Man in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD
• Richard Coe and John Dawson (Men) were TV Announcer in The Chase (1), and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin
• Patrick Milner and James Duggan (Journalists/Men/Sightseers) were Guard in The Silurians, and UNIT Corporal in The Daemons; both were uncredited Soldiers in The War Games; and the latter was Trojan Guard in The Myth Makers
• Joan Harsant and Frank Seton (Crowd) were Technician in The Silurians; and on of the titular The Sea Devils, and Scientist in The Time Warrior
• for John Herrington see Quatermass II
• John Scott Martin (Technician) appeared in seventy-six episodes (mainly as a Dalek operator) from The Web Planet to Remembrance of the Daleks
• Laurence Archer (Man) and Ronald Mayer (Dead Photographer/ Journalist) were both seen in The Daemons as Coven Members and Villagers
• George Kennedy (Civil Servant) was Kennedy in The War Machines
• Edward Burnham (Official) would later play Professors Watkins and Kettlewell in The Invasion and Robot
• for Malcolm Watson, Jack Kine and Bernard Wilkie see The Quatermass Experiment
• Dick Mills (sound FX) of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop later provided special sound for 360 episodes of the classic run (from 100,000 BC to The Curse of Fenric), K9 & Company, Dimensions in Time, then 97 stories of the revived series (from Rose to The Name of the Doctor)
• SFX assistant (and Sladden's Hand) Peter Day later provided visual FX for fifty-one episodes (from The Evil of the Daleks to The Sun Makers) after making uncredited appearances as a Trojan in The Myth Makers (3), Tavern Customer in The Massacre (1), and Worker in The War Machines
• AA Englander was also film cameraman on The Ambassadors of Death and The Claws of Axos