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was introduced to television
audiences seventy years ago
by Cumbrian-born screenwriter
Thomas Nigel Kneale in The
Quatermass Experiment.
Quatermass II followed in 1955,
and both serials were quickly
acquired by Hammer studios.
The subsequent productions,
The Quatermass Xperiment and
Quatermass 2, were released
in 1955 and 1957, and starred
Irish-born Hollywood actor
Brian Donlevy (1901-1972) as
the eponymous rocket scientist.
Kneale had always been critical
of Donlevy's interpretation of the
lead role and requested the part
be recast for the next sequel,
Quatermass and the Pit.
The first film remake (marketed in America as The Creeping
Unknown) was screened on the Talking Pictures TV channel last
night - it featured five future Doctor Who cast/crew connections:
- [Ernest] Edward Dentith (Constable) was Major General Billy Rutlidge in The Invasion
- Michael Godfrey [born Collins] (Fireman) was Captain Samuel Pike in The Smugglers
- Paul [Alfred] Phillips (Bystander) was Guard/Prisoner in (episode 2 of) The War Games, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon (3)
- John Timberlake [born Murphy] (Reporter) was a Shelterer in The Enemy of the World, and Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks
- Jane Asher (Girl) voiced the eponymous companion for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?, then was Andrea Yates in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, and voiced Elaine Hartwell for Big Finish's 9 to 5 (2018), and Pilot Dena for Chase the Night (2020)
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