Andrew Nette returns to Derry and Toms as we continue to muse over some formative telly, novelisations and other stuff but on this occasion to talk about Nigel Kneale's enduring and iconic character Professor Bernard Quatermass (and a load of other digressions, naturally, including brief musings on a favourite mercenary war flick). We roam around the original Hammer films, the impact of Quatermass on the zeitgeist and, most specifically, the 1979 serial and its novelisation by Nigel Kneale himself.
HUFFITY-PUFFITY PUFF!!!
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Sent me down the Stone Tape rabbit hole
The riot cops at a stone henge part came true in 1985 with the Battle of the Beanfield. A year before, Hawkwind recorded 'Stonehenge Decoded' and 'Watching the Grass Grow' live at the free festival in that great stone circle.