21st Century Qatermass

I remember Quatermass with fondness Ed, great programme and one of my introductions into SciFi, the other being the late great Arthur C. Clarke. If you had never seen it, or anything like it before, it was ‘behind the sofa’ stuff. In after years, during Army service, I learned that the portrayal of certain Army officers was quite realistic!

I have recently been following a FB page “Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s” which is interesting but does tend to get mawkish in parts. One discussion was about radio and TV programmes, quite a bit about old comedy shows such as “The Navy Lark”. I posted about “Journey Into Space” and “The Goon Show”, which kicked off another interminable ‘Marmite’ type debate. I used to listen to those two prog’s with my dad every Monday night during the years he was working permanent Night Shifts at the local pit. My old dad was 40 when I was born, but used to love those shows as much as I did; laughed like a drain at the Goons.

Happy days…

Bob, check this out.

About 15 years ago a very good friend of my my mothers fella was potentially knocking on death’s door. No feeling at all below his neck. I also call him a mate.

I got a chipod with a SD slot and loaded it with radio programmes from his youth. He used to ask the nurses to put the headphones on and then do the physical therapy. I knew he was getting better when he said he fancied the nurse that washed him that day.🙂

Thanks Nolan!!!!!

Bookmarked, watched and listened to a couple already. Timeless humour.

keith with the teef wrote:

What was that film with the HEX. Kate Bush used a sample in one of her songs: Its in the tress, Its coming. I like that film to and especially the village of the Damned.

Quote from Wikipedia:-

The versions worldwide differ slightly: the US single mix included an additional chorus just after the second chorus. The words “it’s in the trees, it’s coming!” heard at the beginning of the track are sampled from the British 1957 horror film Night of the Demon and are mouthed by an actor from the film, Reginald Beckwith,[2][3] who plays a medium channelling a character played by Maurice Denham, who provides the voice.

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