The Quatermass Experiment Archives

James Swanton, who plays the mummy, is a fantastic physical performer who I worked with recently on The Quatermass Experiment at Alexandra Palace.  Freddie Fox, I've known for years He's a wonderful actor and so naughty! It's strange because Bellingham in the story is written as fat and rather toad-like and sometimes I think you[...]

Before Doctor Who, there was The Quatermass Experiment, created by pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale The first adult Science Fiction TV series in the UK, the original six-part serial was only ever broadcast once on the BBC in 1953 Nobody had really seen anything like it on television in 1953 – the story of an astronaut[...]