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Quatermass (also known as Quatermass IV, or The Quatermass Conclusion for its limited international theatrical release) is a 1979 British television science fiction serial. Produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, it was broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979.
Aug 30, 1980 · The Quatermass Conclusion: Directed by Piers Haggard. With John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman, Margaret Tyzack. A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass 4-part miniseries.
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- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Piers Haggard
- 1980-08-30
Quatermass is rescued by a group of elderly people living in a scrap yard. At the hospital, the doctors are shocked when Isabel levitates off her bed and explodes in a cloud of dust. Elsewhere, the devastated Kapp is left alone in the ruins of his cottage and observatory.
It was followed by Quatermass II, broadcast in 1955, while the initial trilogy concluded in 1958 with the astonishing Quatermass and the Pit – both of these thankfully are still in existence in...
- Adam Scovell
Quatermass Conclusion ★★ 1979. An elderly British scientist comes out of retirement to stop an immobilizing death ray from outer space from destroying Earth.
In the near future, civilisation has broken down to the barest fragment of recognisable life. Young people are forming gangs and dominating the wrecks of cities like London. But the strangest Earth-children are the Planet people, following plumb-bobs to sacred sites, waiting to be "Taken Up".
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on a...
- Piers Haggard
- Thames Television
