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The Quatermass Experiment 1954?

I dont know if this is just another replay mistakenly taken for the original by Radio Times or the 2005 remake or has the original been HD mastered?

 

[Llew]

I believe these will be the movie version(s) of the series, made just after the TV series.

Llew

 

[spiney]

There were 4 Quatermass tv serials, 3 in 1950s on the BBC, the final one in 1979 (in which Quatermass dies) on ITV. The often tv shown Hammer film verison of Quatermass and the Pit was made in 1967 (there were 2 other 50s cinema films). None was transmitted in '54.

The recent remake was utterly dire, so let's just pretend it never happened!

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8504/qhome.htm . (this link is slightly confusing, as it lists the 1979 tv serial twice, once as a cinema film! However, this was the only story NOT re-made for the cinema!).

Quatermass aside, Kneale's supreme achievment was The Stone Tape, BBC4 have already shown it twice, hopefully they will again soon.

http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/reviews/gold/stonetape.htm .

Note that - despite above link, Stone Tape wasn't in fact original, that idea having been proposed long before, by "mad occult archaeologist" T C Lethbridge. In fact, I was at the NFT screening of Stone Tape, and was going to ask Kneale exactly this question, but had to leave halfway through, dammit ....

http://thenewagefiles.shadowweb.info/articles/the_legacy of_t_c_lethbridge.php .

Hang on, I've just looked at that Radio Times link, it says "filmed 1955" .... but the film is actually Hammer's 1st Quatermass from 1956, made after the original tv series, as Llew says.

 

[spiney]

Er ....... the last link just above, about Lethbridge, is mostly fine. Except that, where it mentions the Nigel Kneale connection, it's actually wrong, and unfortunately that was the whole point!

So, for the sake of accuracy (not that anyone pays much attention to my huge rantings) ........

What Lethbridge sorta claimed was, he could detect different materials by dowsing, as they all have "characteristic frequencies". Furthermore, that he could also detect different emotions, and even further, that these various emotions were "linked" to particular materials!
So, for example, near a stream or tree you would feel "calm and relaxed", that being their "emotion" (an attractive theory, who hasn't felt the calming influence of running water?). Furthermore, that some materials - eg, perhaps the stone in houses - might even be able to "register" emotions .... the Stone Tape!

However, the idea of Ley Lines - lines of force connecting "power centers" (usually stone circles) - as referred to in the 1979 Quatermass, is a completely different one, and comes from a book called The Old Straight Track (and NOT Lethbridge, as claimed in above link!).

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-old-straight-track .

As far as I know, one day Watkins simply "noticed" (sceptics would say "invented") these lines, somewhere around 1920, much earlier than Lethbridge was doing his own stuff. As far as I know, Lethbridge never even once mentioned Ley Lines, and in any case, he certainly didn't invent them!

Which takes us a very long way from Radio Times error, in non Sky HD .....