Professor Bernard Quartermass (John Mills) returns and this time on ITV.
Quatermass and fellow scientist Joe Kapp (Simon MacCorkindale) are on their way to a television studio to discuss a link up of an American-Russian space station. However that is destroyed live on air.
The action then moves on to some new age hippies called the Planet People. They are gathering at Ringstone Round (a sort of Stonehenge) where they wait to be taken to another world.
There is an interesting story but it does not feel like Quatermass and some of the production decisions look odd.
Quatermass has come down from Scotland and is more interested in looking for his missing granddaughter who he fears has joined the Planet People.
Mills plays Quatermass as a doddery old man rather than a once brilliant, passionate scientist. He seemed to be aware that London is now a Dystopian, violent society twinned with A Clockwork Orange. He is rescued by Kapp only because Kapp was also on his way to the studio.
The decision to portray hippies in the age of punk rock comes across as anachronistic.
However there is an interesting mystery and the episode ends with maximum impact. I knew watching it back in 1979 I wanted to know what happened next.
Quatermass and fellow scientist Joe Kapp (Simon MacCorkindale) are on their way to a television studio to discuss a link up of an American-Russian space station. However that is destroyed live on air.
The action then moves on to some new age hippies called the Planet People. They are gathering at Ringstone Round (a sort of Stonehenge) where they wait to be taken to another world.
There is an interesting story but it does not feel like Quatermass and some of the production decisions look odd.
Quatermass has come down from Scotland and is more interested in looking for his missing granddaughter who he fears has joined the Planet People.
Mills plays Quatermass as a doddery old man rather than a once brilliant, passionate scientist. He seemed to be aware that London is now a Dystopian, violent society twinned with A Clockwork Orange. He is rescued by Kapp only because Kapp was also on his way to the studio.
The decision to portray hippies in the age of punk rock comes across as anachronistic.
However there is an interesting mystery and the episode ends with maximum impact. I knew watching it back in 1979 I wanted to know what happened next.
