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Each week, we look at one episode of a classic (or not-so-classic) science fiction TV series and discuss it. Come join the conversation.
543 – The Quatermass Experiment
Finally, we take a look at one of the seminal pieces of science fiction television: The Quatermass Experiment – Nigel Kneale’s 1953 pioneering original television serial. Logistical problems galore as Simon and Eugene discuss this “lost” classic.
Episode Synopsis
Part One – Contact Has Been Established
The British Experimental Rocket Group and its leader, Professor Bernard Quatermass, are tense. The world’s first manned spacecraft, British, of course, has gone missing for 57 hours. T
517 – Quatermass
Simon and Eugene look at the fourth and final Quatermass adventure. One could almost call it, “The Quatermass Conclusion.” Almost.
Synopsis:
Chapter 1 – Ringstone Round
Aged Bernard Quatermass has been invited to London to appear on a BTV program about the hands of friendship space hookup between the USA and the USSR. He’s not been in London in a long time and didn’t expect dead bodies on the streets and vicious youth gangs who collect old men’s teeth. He is waylaid by one
469 – The Day of the Triffids (BBC, 1981)
John Wyndham’s novel seminal post-vegetable-apocalyptic novel, The Day of the Triffids has been adapted several times, but possibly most faithfully by the BBC in 1981.
Simon and Eugene look at the 6-part Day of the Triffids.
Story Synopsis:
Triffids are plants bioengineered by the Soviet Union to be an efficient fuel additive. They are unique in that they can move about and can sting animals to death – or at lesser intensity – blind them. Bill Masen works at one of the
463 – War of the Worlds (BBC, 2019)
It’s time once again for another re-telling of the classic, timeless tale by H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds. This time the BBC have hired Peter Harness, acclaimed writer of Doctor Who’s Kill the Moon to put his unique spin on this beloved tale.
Simon and Eugene discuss.
Episode Synopsis:
It’s War of the Worlds, you know it already it. In fact, do we even need to bother? A question the writer of this adaptation no doubt asked himself many a time, but like him, let’s be precur
437 – Quatermass II
After the wild success of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass Experiment, the BBC brought Kneale’s Quatermass back again in 1955 for Quatermass II.
Simon and Eugene discuss.
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Episode Synopsis:
A radar post observes the arrival of yet another meteor. Under orders for secrecy, Capt. Dillon goes to investigate. The meteorite, broken, is found in a field, where a stunned farmer sit
433 – Children of the Stones
A creepy village in the south of England, a stone circle and a black hole make for some creepy happenings.
Simon and Eugene discuss the Children of the Stones.
Synopsis:
Professor Adam Brake and his son Matthew arrive in the small village of Milbury to conduct a 3 month research project . Milbury is built inside a neolithic stone circle and Adam has come to conduct measurements on the magnetic properties of the stones and the general area.
As they learn about their new home, they discover th
400 – Quatermass and the Pit
For our 400th episode, we look at the absolute classic BBC serial, Quatermass and the Pit.
Simon and Eugene discuss.
Story Synopsis:
Respected scientist Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group is drawn into a strange mystery when fossils of human ancestors are discovered at an excavation at Hobs Lane. Dated to 5 million years ago and representing a missing link in man’s evolution. The paleontologist Roney rushes against the clock to collect the fossils before construction w