Advantages: Very innovative and very entertaining. Disadvantages: Some poor quality (but that is not surprising)
...31/Feb 2: Said to be the biggest civil catastrophe in Britain in the 20th century - severe storm and high tides caused the loss of hundreds of lives -- effects travelled from the west coast of Scotland round to the south-east coast of England [The Netherlands were even worse affected with over a thousand deaths] Feb 5: Sweet rationing ends in Britain May 29: Everest conquered by Hillary and Tensing Jun 2: Coronation of Elizabeth II Sep 26: Sugar ... ...of Stalin
End of the Korean War USSR explodes Hydrogen Bomb Nobel prize for literature to W Churchill, Prime minister
This was a bleak time for Britain. I remember it as grey. Fashion, people, buildings everything grey and drab. Rationing had not quite finished. Whilst Clement Atlee might be regarded as a "Great man" I remember the policy of "Fair shares for all" where in practice the working man got B### er all, or so it seemed to me. Labour had ...
Coloneljohn 23.09.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Quatermass Collection - The Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 / Quatermass And The Pit (DVD)
Advantages: Probably the best British TV science-fiction series ever Disadvantages: Poor transfer to DVD in places, although given the equipment in use....
Mention the name "Quatermass" to people who were around in the 1950s and you often get rewarded with tales of folk who abandoned pubs and missed out on church services to watch three separate six-part SF series during the 1950s. Prior to 1953, the BBC had tried hard to avoid showing programmes of an SF nature, but a gap in the schedules during the summer of that year provided a convenient opening for a young staff writer named Nigel Kneale to write ... ...In 1953, memories of the V-2 rocket offensive against London were still fresh in the minds of many. The Space Race that was to occupy the thoughts of many around the world, not just those in America and Russia, had not yet started in earnest, although both sides were developing bigger and longer-ranged rockets based on material captured in Germany at the end of WW2. In 1953 it was not known whether it was possible to launch a man into space and return ...
graeme10 08.03.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Quatermass Collection - The Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 / Quatermass And The Pit (DVD)
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The Quatermass Experiment: The plan was to pilot a manned rocket some 1500 miles above the ... more
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Willow Smith, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Alice Braga
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