The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic Hardback

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER: RELEASE DATE MAY 12

Special edition casebound hardback with cover artwork by Robert Hack. Limited to 250 numbered copies.

Witness the birth of TV science-fiction!

The six-part serial The Quatermass Experiment — broadcast live from Alexandra Palace in 1953 — was a landmark television event. Unleashed in the wake of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the conquest of Everest, Nigel Kneale’s story of a doomed space flight captivated the burgeoning television audience with high-quality, suspenseful science fiction. The Quatermass Experiment was not cult television; this was mainstream drama which tapped into contemporary concerns.

For the first time, the full inside story of the development and making of this classic programme can be told — pieced together from production paperwork, Nigel Kneale’s private archive and never-before-published interviews with cast and crew, illustrated with previously unseen photographs from the Nigel Kneale Estate.

Foreword by Peter Harness; Afterword by Jon Dear

Toby Hadoke has been researching Quatermass and the works of Nigel Kneale for over 30 years. He is also an award-winning writer, actor, comedian and broadcaster, regularly contributing to The Guardian and Radio 4 Extra.

Casebound Hardback: 156mm x 244 format; 320 pages in black and white, plus 36-page photo insert