THE QUATERMASS MEMOIRS

In 1996, Quatermass returned on audio

Twenty years after the Professor’s demise in 1979, Nigel Kneale resurrected him for a BBC radio production which combined documentary and drama. Quatermass (Andrew Keir, the lead in the film version of Quatermass And

The Pit) is in seclusion in the Scottish Highlands, prefiguring the events of the last TV series; in the novel of the final story, it’s explicitly stated that the Professor was working on his memoirs. Perhaps fittingly, the character returned to television for a final time in 2005 in a remake of the first series The Quatermass Experiment, transmitted live just like the original.