Episode 72: My Best Friend Turned Into a Cactus

This week, dear listeners, we are joined again by author Pat Harrigan for an episode all about Quatermass! We get into the nitty gritty of Nigel Kneale’s groundbreaking series of stories: the BBC miniseries, the Hammer Films remakes, the radio show… and even stuff like The Stone Tape and The Year of the Sex Olympics. …

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This week, dear listeners, we are joined again by author Pat Harrigan for an episode all about Quatermass! We get into the nitty gritty of Nigel Kneale’s groundbreaking series of stories: the BBC miniseries, the Hammer Films remakes, the radio show… and even stuff like The Stone Tape and The Year of the Sex Olympics.

If you would like to drink along (and oh, we did drink), we recommend Black Ink wine, because it has a cephalopod on it. It certainly was appropriate to our subject matter.

Show notes behind the cut!

Quatermass movies discussed:

The Quatermass Experiment (1952)

Quatermass II (1955)

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

X the Unknown (1956)

Quatermass 2 (1957)

Quatermass and the Pit (1958)

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Quatermass / The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)

The Quatermass Memoirs (1996) (radio)

The Quatermass Experiment (2005)

Other movies mentioned:

The Stone Tape

The Year of the Sex Olympics

Prince of Darkness

1984

Doctor Who (TV)

People mentioned:

Nigel Kneale

Jason Flemyng

David Tennant

Mark Gatiss

John Carpenter

Brian Donlevy

Reginald Tate

Andrew Kier

Indira Varma

John Robinson

Wilfrid Brambell

Roger Delgado

Michael Ripper

Dean Jagger

Leo McKern

Barbara Shelley

Andre Morrell

Julian Glover

Brian Cox

Jane Asher

John Mills

Simon MacCorkindale

Links:

Get Off My World podcast

getoffmyworldpodcast.com

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