Advantages: no-frills sci-fi, great cast Disadvantages: loses a lot without live broadcast
If you didn't spend the night of April 2nd, 2005 hiding under the dining room table with a packet of chocolate digestives and an aged relative - you weren't there. You didn't experience the cross-generational collision of 1950s science-fiction reconstructed, re-enacted and delivered with twenty-first century aplomb.
Basically, you missed THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT: LIVE on BBC Four. You know it. You're ashamed of it. And now you're looking for the ... ...science-fiction serial - created by the late NIGEL KNEALE - in 1953. As each of the original episodes were performed and broadcast live, and no one thought to commit them to film archive at the time, few of these early examples of science-fiction on television survive.
Fifty-two years, six STAR WARS movies and nine seasons of THE X-FILES later THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT: LIVE presents one question: Can 'live' science-fiction television work anymore?
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crispybits 10.07.2007
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Advantages: An excellent production that will appeal to any fan of classic TV and SF. Disadvantages: Because it's a recording, it loses some of the excitement of watching it live.
...well, so when I saw the DVD on sale for £10 earlier this year, I snapped it up. If (like me) you're a fan of classic era TV (by which I mean the TV of the 50s, 60s and 70s) and especially if you're a fan of classic TV SF, then this DVD is a must purchase. Not because it's old - it was only made in 2005 - but because it was a deliberate attempt to pay homage to 1950s TV drama by employing the same methods that were available to TV production companies ... ...broadcast live, with just the occasional pre-recorded film insert used when necessary - exactly the way the original TV serial was made.
The original version of "The Quatermass Experiment" was a six part TV serial made by the BBC in 1953 and written by Nigel Kneale. It was a major hit at the time, but only the first two episodes were recorded. So when BBC4 decided to remount a 1950s drama production in 2005, "The Quatermass Experiment" was an obvious ...
The_Man_With_No_Nickname 26.12.2008 (28.11.2008)
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