Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Andrew Tiernan
- Victor Carroon
- (as Andy Tiernan)
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- TriviaDuring the rehearsals for the film, David Tennant was offered the role of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who (2005). This casting was not announced to the public until April 16, 2005, two weeks after the broadcast, but his fellow castmembers, and crew, became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant. In the live broadcast, Jason Flemyng changed Quatermass' first line to Tennant's character Dr. Gordon Briscoe from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, Doctor" as a deliberate reference.
- GoofsWhen they show Victor the film in the hospital, we are looking through the transparent screen towards Victor. But the countdown numbers at the start of the film appear the right way round to us so they'd be the wrong way round for those watching from the other side of the screen.
- Alternate versionsThe 2005 Simply Home Entertainment DVD release contains over 50 small or major differences, notably Adrian Bower's line-drying being replaced with the tech rehearsal sequence prerecorded from the previous night (52:02), and the removal of a loud offscreen crash following an exit from Adrian Dunbar (1:07:49). The strapline "Major news announcement on BBC NEWS 24 now" (alerting viewers to the death of Pope John Paul II) is another noticeable if understandable omission.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Doctor Who Confidential: The Writer's Tale (2006)
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Bad acting makes this vastly inferior to the original
The original TV series and movie were ground breaking in Sscience fiction. Why BBC remade this as a 90 minute film , is a mystery. The story line, sets and especially the acting were all atrocious. Good actors appeared to be embarrassed in their attempt to utter their lines from an appalling script. The BBC should be censured for this nonsense and I doubt Nigel Kneale, the original author (mentioned as a consultant) had anything to do with this travesty. I could go on using all the derogatory adjectives in the English language but who really cares, but I have to to make this submission the required length. I sincerely hope they do not attempt a remake Quatermass and the Pit. probably one of the best ever science fiction series.
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- ettrick
- Feb 15, 2009
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By what name was The Quatermass Experiment (2005) officially released in Canada in English?
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