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Old 18-04-2008, 01:41 PM
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A few years ago an experiment in live television was made on television BBC 4 when the production was watered down in length as a play. Jason Flemyng took the part. Note David Tennant was a supporting cast member.
There was even a special newsflash in the middle to prove it really was live (the Pope's death). Tennant was cast as the Doctor while rehearsing for this which is why Flemying changed one of his lines so he could be the first person to call Tennant 'Doctor' on screen. Being telefantasy it also has Mark Gatiss - I think that's the law now.

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The sad problem with the Quatermass series is that although the three cinema films still exist, the first television Quatermass production, (The Quatermass Experiment) is "supposedly incomplete". It is reputed that only the first two episodes exist. These have been released on DVD in a special Quatermass collection. I did query the BBC concerning this, but I found communicating with them not the easiest thing in the world. In fact I had to stop otherwise I would have gone mad. I will sometime make another attempt in the future.
Quite true I'm afraid. Quatermass was produced, in the custom of the time, as a live play; we're lucky that the BBC had the foresight to try and record the live screening (Before videotape, remember) by basically pointing a film camera at a TV screen monitoring the live broadcast in the studio. The quality was not what had been hoped, however, and could not have been used for transmission subsequently, so after the second episode, the experiment was abandoned. After a lot of technical work in the last couple of years, those early attempts have been rendered watchable, and that is what you have on your DVD set. By the time the second series went out, the technology for telecineing had been worked on, so that does survive intact.
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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According to one response I had from the BBC, was that after the first two episodes were recorded of Experiment, someone else recorded episodes 3,4 and 5. This fascinates me, as recordings of the broadcast went to Canada for subsequent transmission. Does this mean that Canadian television showed an incomplete broadcast? Illogical. According to another source only two episides of the first Quatermass serial were recorded and there is no evidence of the strike. There are some other anomalies that I can think of.
I must log off shortly, here in the Hemel Hempstead Library, but I have a feeling that I shall be idulging in this thread again.

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According to one response I had from the BBC, was that after the first two episodes were recorded of Experiment, someone else recorded episodes 3,4 and 5. This fascinates me, as recordings of the broadcast went to Canada for subsequent transmission. Does this mean that Canadian television showed an incomplete broadcast? Illogical. According to another source only two episides of the first Quatermass serial were recorded and there is no evidence of the strike. There are some other anomalies that I can think of.
I must log off shortly, here in the Hemel Hempstead Library, but I have a feeling that I shall be idulging in this thread again.

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In that case, the first place to look would be a library which has Canadian newspapers from that era; find out exactly what was broadcast....if they only broadcasted the first two episodes....
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I will be resuming shortly in the not too far distant future regarding this frustrating subject.
When I do, I shall come back hopefully, with some more information.

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see here, just discovered this yesterday
Quatermass 2: The Unofficial Website Of The Hammer Film Classic & The BBC Cult TV Serial.
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If one runs the 1965 film 'Invasion' the first 10 minutes is a clear lift from Quatermass 2 with the Army vehicle and radar scene and even some script
'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!
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Always loved Quatermass 11 - I may be wrong but I think its the only film that my two favourite Brit character actors - Percy Herbert and Michael Ripper, appeared in together.
They were both in The Steel Bayonet
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If one runs the 1965 film 'Invasion' the first 10 minutes is a clear lift from Quatermass 2 with the Army vehicle and radar scene and even some script
I think it's what they call a homage. Spearhead from Space, the first Pertwee Doctor Who story does much the same thing, IIRC
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