Quatermass

Professor Bernard Quatermass was the title character in a British science fiction franchise run by Nigel Kneale . A number of television series, films and (radio) radio plays are part of it, other uses of the name (such as the self-designation of a band) were derived from this franchise or its main character.

The Quatermass franchise

Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional scientist and pioneer of the British space program. He heads a team of space rocket engineers and sets high scientific and moral standards in the British Experimental Rocket Group . Quatermass has appeared in a large number of film, television and radio productions since the 1950s:

Television films and series

• 1953: The Quatermass Experiment (BBC) , British Broadcasting Corporation miniseries
• 1955: Quatermass II , BBC miniseries
• 1958–1959: Quatermass and the Pit (BBC) , BBC miniseries
• 1979: Quatermass (1979) , four-part miniseries by Thames Television, distribution outside the UK as a cohesive feature film under the alternative titles The Quatermass Conclusion or Quatermass IV .
• 2005: Quatermass (2005) , original title The Quatermass Experiment , live remake of the original series by BBC Four

Three-part film series from Hammer Film Productions

• 1955: Schock (1955) , original title The Quatermass Xperiment , in the USA The Creeping Unknown or Shock !!
• 1957: Enemy from nowhere , original title Quatermass 2 , in the USA The Enemy from Space
• 1967: The green blood of demons , original title Quatermass and the Pit , in the USA Five Million Years to Earth

Radio play on BBC Radio 3

• 1996: The Quatermass Memoirs

Further use

• Quatermass (band) , British rock band
  • Quatermass (album) , an album by the band

• Martin Quatermass, a pseudonym of the film director John Carpenter as a screenwriter for the feature film Die Fürsten der Dunkelheit ( Prince of Darkness )

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.