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<TD WIDTH="270" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Quatermass Experiment'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(6 Parts)<BR>by Nigel Kneal</TD>
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An observation rocket is sent 1,500 miles above the Earth, but it suffers a malfunction in its control systems and veers off course, losing contact with its creator, Professor Bernard Quatermass, and his team from the British Experimental Rocket Group. The rocket eventually returns to Earth and crash-lands in Wimbledon. Quatermass and his colleagues arrive, but are forced to wait until the rocket has cooled enough for the three man crew within to be rescued. But when the cabin is opened only one man, Victor Carroon, emerges - the other two crewmen, Greene and Reichenheim, have mysteriously vanished. Chief Inspector Lomax of Scotland Yard begins an investigation into the crewmen's disappearance, and soon discovers that Carroon has the memory and identity of the entire three-man crew. Meanwhile, a strange, jelly-like substance is found inside the rocket cabin, and after Quatermass takes Carroon back to the crash-site, to play him the tape-recording of what happened to the crew while in space, Carroon is then kidnapped. While Inspector Lomax mounts a search, Caroon’s wife Judith tells Quatermass that her husband had been drawn to a cactus plant, and that his arm had apparently changed in shape. Carroon manages to escape and goes into hiding, but his hand has fused with the cactus and mutated; he makes his way to a chemists and then consumes substances that would kill a normal man. Briscoe and Quatermass find that the jelly-like substance from the rocket is alien in origin, and is able to absorb all animal life on the planet. A television transmission from Westminster Abbey reveals that Carroon has now become a gigantic pulsating mass, and is about to produce countless spores that will mean the end of all life on Earth. Venturing inside the building, Quatermass confronts the creature, and, by appealing to the remains of the human crew absorbed within it, is able to convince the monster to kill itself.

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Reginald Tate (<B>Professor Bernard Quatermass</B>), Isabel Dean (<B>Judith Carroon</B>), Duncan Lamont (<B>Victor Carroon</B>), Hugh Kelly (<B>John Paterson, Senior Engineer</B>), Moray Watson (<B>Peter Marsh, Assistant Control Engineer</B>), W. Thorp Deverreux (<B>Blaker</B>), Van Boolen (<B>Len Matthews</B>), Iris Ballard (<B>Mrs. Matthews</B>), Neil Wilson (<B>Policeman</B>), Katie Johnson (<B>Miss Wilde</B>), Oliver Johnston (<B>News Editor of 'Daily Gazette'</B>), Paul Whitsun-Jones (<B>James Fullalove, chief columnist of 'Daily Gazette'</B>), Colyn Davies (<B>Fireman</B>), Patrick Westwood (<B>First Journalist</B>), Dominic Le Foe (<B>Second Journalist</B>), Eugene Leahy (<B>Police Inspector</B>), Nicholas Bruse (<B>BBC Newsreader</B>), Pat McGrath (<B>BBC Reporter</B>), Dennis Wyndham (<B>Reveller</B>), MacGregor Urquhart (<B>Sandwich man</B>), John Glen (<B>Doctor Gordon Briscoe</B>), Ian Colin (<B>Chief Inspector Lomax</B>), Frank Hawkins (<B>Detective-Sergeant Best</B>), Christopher Rhosed (<B>Dr. Ludwig Reichenheim</B>), Peter Bathurst (<B>Charles Greene</B>), Enid Lindsay (<B>Louisa Greene</B>), Stella Richman (<B>Hospital Sister</B>), Maurice Durant (<B>Scotland Yard Policeman</B>), Philip Vickers (<B>American reporter</B>), Edward David (<B>Indian Reporter</B>), Lewis Wilson (<B>Walters </B>), Darrell Runey (<B>Photographer</B>), Jack Rodney (<B>Ramsay</B>), Anthony Green (<B>Boy</B>), Richard Cuthbert (<B>Chemist</B>), Lee Fox (<B>Cinema Manager</B>), Janet Joye (<B>Cinemagoer</B>), Bernadette Milnes (<B>Usherette</B>), Keith Herrington (<B>'Space Lieutenant'</B>), Pauline Johnson (<B>‘Space Girl’</B>), Christine Humphrey (<B>Janet</B>), John Stone (<B>Ted</B>), Frank Atkinson (<B>Park keeper</B>), Reginald Hearne (<B>Police Inspector</B>), Wilfred Brambell (<B>Drunk</B>), John Kidd (<B>Sir Vernon Dodd</B>), Tony Van Bridge (<B>T.V. Producer</B>), Neal Arden (<B>T.V. Commentator</B>), Josephine Crombie (<B>T.V. Secretary</B>), Keith Pyott (<B>Cabinet Minister</B>), Arnold Diamond (<B>Man in Bowler Hat</B>), Kenneth Midwood (<B>Policeman</B>), Andrew Lawrence (<B>Major</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Produced and Directed by Rudolf Cartier</B>

<BR><BR><B>TX - BBC1:</B>
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<BR><B>‘Contact Has Been Established’</B> - 18th July, 1953 @ 8.15pm - 8.45pm
<BR><B>‘Persons Reported Missing’</B> - 25th July, 1953 @ 8.25pm - 8.55pm
<BR><B>‘Very Special Knowledge’</B> - 1st August, 1953 @ 8.45pm - 9.15pm
<BR><B>‘Believed to be Suffering</B> - 8th August, 1953 @ 8.45pm - 9.15pm
<BR><B>‘An Unidentified Species’</B> - 15th August, 1953 @ 9.00pm - 9.30pm
<BR><B>‘A State of Emergency’</B> - 22nd August, 1953 @ 9.00pm - 9.305pm

<BR><BR><B>Notes:</B>
<BR>*Featuring Professor Bernard Quatermass
<BR><BR>* Working Title: ‘Bring Something Back’
<BR><BR>*The episodes were transmitted live, and were roughly 35 minutes in duration
<BR><BR>*A telerecording was made off the live transmission, but unfortunately only for episodes one and two
<BR><BR>*In April 2005, BBC Four is to broadcast a new <U>live</U> production of 'The Quatermass Experiment' as part of its 'TV On Trial' season
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