BBCNEWS Newsnight June 4, 2024 22:04:00
1953, the queen's coronation at westminster abbey. but there was another important visitor to the abbey that year. the quatermass experiment was a british tv first, so bold in scope and ambition that the still—stuffy bbc television service had to be catapulted into this new world of rockets and alien menaces. what did it do to them? in this first serial, an astronaut returns to earth possessed by an alien parasite and mutates into a creature that the bbc had no idea how to make. so writer nigel kneale had to come up with something himself. this is the original special effect made by my fathe...
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