[1964] Studio '64: The Crunch - A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?

Written by Nigel Kneale and starring Harry Andrews, Maxwell Shaw, Wolfe Morris and Peter Bowles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDIlese9GJU

#OldBritishTelly #NigelKneale

[1972] The Stone Tape - A research team move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When a team member witnesses a ghost, the team director decides to exorcise it too - with terrifying results. Written by Nigel Kneale and starring Michael Bryant and Jane Asher.

https://youtu.be/vtvJWKaDI9s

#OldBritishTelly #TheStoneTape #NigelKneale #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher

My article 'Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics: British Post-War Identity in Viewer Responses to the BBC's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)' has just been published online by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439685.2023.2173378

If you do not have access to this journal, 50 free prints are available athttps://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RHDX3EWDMCTP3QMBUFZQ/full?target=10.1080/01439685.2023.2173378

#NigelKneale #Horror #BBC #TelevisionHistory

A curated list of my six-part overview of British #ScienceFiction #Television plus a review of Euston/ITV's final #Quatermass by #NigelKneale https://medium.com/@frank_c_collins/list/british-science-fiction-television-0c571a04d63b

[1981] Kinvig - Sci-fi comedy television series made by London Weekend Television which ran for one series of seven episodes. It was the only sit-com written by Nigel Kneale.

Lazy, unambitious repairman and UFO enthusiast Des Kinvig encounters a spaceship captained by the beautiful Miss Griffin from Mercury. Or is it all just the fantasy of a man having a quiet breakdown?

https://youtu.be/m_iiP2SYnbo

#OldBritishTelly #Kinvig #NigelKneale

@Zachwritesstuff

#writing:

The Black Archive #62: Kinda (a deep dive into a #DoctorWho story from 1982) - https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/62-kinda/

A look at George Pal’s 1953 adaptation of Wells’ #TheWarOfTheWorlds and its recent 4K release. https://medium.com/cathode-ray-tube/the-war-of-the-worlds-1953-4k-uhd-when-worlds-collide-1951-blu-ray-review-2bf2aa080b69

Currently #reading:

#NigelKneale’s ‘Tomato Cain and Other Stories’ - republished collection of very odd tales.

Tony Garnett’s memoir ‘The Day the Music Died’ - the famed British television producer’s upbringing and career.

Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape at 50.

https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/12/22/the-stone-tape-nigel-kneales-christmas-ghost-story-turns-50/?fbclid=IwAR22myMIRzPTuep3CeWT9LX7or7GyYaSpr74FFdVB9to0hrgD9beTOjWT2Y

#NigelKneale #TheStoneTape #ChristmasHorror

Isn’t Jowita’s make-up the same as that used in Year of the Sex Olympics? #Strictly #NigelKneale

[1975] Against the Crowd - Anthology series. This episode is "Murrain" by Nigel Kneale. A young country vet begins to suspect that the local farmland is under the spell of a witch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pTzBqrQ0s

#OldBritishTelly #NigelKneale

[1958] Quatermass and the Pit - The discovery of a buried spaceship underneath London threatens to change theories on the development of human beings as a species, and emphasise the darkest sides of human nature. By Nigel Kneale. First episode.

https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x3fjm7q

#OldBritishTelly #Quatermass #NigelKneale