Nigel Kneale Memories

[felixdembinski]

Having recently found out how good people's memories are about television some 40 years old when I posted my out of the unknown thread. I wondered if anyone can remeber anything from the missing nigel kneale plays, such as the road, the chopper (an out of the unknown installment) and the wine of india.

[felixdembinski]

I might of mist some out, if i have tell me!

[Ally Wilson]

Well, there's The Quatermass Experiment...

[Deleted]

Bam Zap Pow! Is another (Wednesday Play, 1969).

[felixdembinski]

Ive also found out about the creature too.

[Philip Hindley]

jack and the beanstalk I missed this one, Ladies Night, Gentry, The Woman in Black, Kavanagh Q.C. Stanley and the Women, Sharpes Gold, Year of the Sex Olympics, Kinvig. Mrs Wickens in the Fall, Wuthering Heights.

[felixdembinski]

well does anyone have any memories of these programes. What was the plot of Bam Pow Zap! and The Wine of India, I can't find any details about them apart from that the Wine of India was set in 2050.

[Greg H]

Too young to have seen the old classics like the Quatermass experiment when broadcast!!
Theres some details about his work here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1533099/Nigel-Kneale.html

www.eofftv.com/names/k/kne/kneale_nigel_main.htm

wapedia.mobi/en/Quatermass_%28TV_serial%29

You should be able to find some info about the plays ou query on those pages. I believe a few script books were published a while back, i think the quatermass serials (I have those) and I think the script for the road as well. Perhaps someone can confirm this?

I didnt personaly see Quatermass and the pit when it was on, I first came across that in the earlyish 80s, it left a lasting impression on me

[Charles Norton]

Obviously a great deal has been written about Kneale.

Andy Murray's biography is always a good thing to read.

I'd also point you in the direction of:

www.quatermass.org.uk

Both 'The Stone Tape' and 'The Year of the Sex Olympics' have been released on DVD by the BFI.

'Beasts' came out a while back and all of the Quatermass stuff is available in some form.

And there's also a very rare DVD of 'The Woman in Black' knocking around.

[Greg H]

Aug 13, 2010 21:39:40 GMT Charles Norton said:

Obviously a great deal has been written about Kneale.

Andy Murray's biography is always a good thing to read.

I'd also point you in the direction of:

www.quatermass.org.uk

Both 'The Stone Tape' and 'The Year of the Sex Olympics' have been released on DVD by the BFI.

'Beasts' came out a while back and all of the Quatermass stuff is available in some form.

And there's also a very rare DVD of 'The Woman in Black' knocking around.

The woman in bllack is amazing. Now theres one I did watch on transmission!
I remember being glued to the screen from start to finish! I didnt jump out of my seat, but somone else in the room did. Well worth tracking down.

[felixdembinski]

I have seen the stone tape and all the existing television quatermasses, they were excellent the pit and the stone tape especially.

[felixdembinski]

Can anyone give me any clues as to what the chopper LOOKED like, and to the plots of the wine of india and BAM POW ZAPP!

[Greg H]

I think you will find some clues about the plots in those links I posted in this thread! Wine of India, I believe, was about a future society where life and youth can be nearly indefinitely prolonged, but a date is set for a persons death (to stop overpopulation perhaps?). I dont know a lot more as that one is missing from the archives, but due to the transmission date there is just the slimmest possibility of a domestic recording turning up, and I do mean slim!!
Heres a recomendation as well, when researching stuff like this, its always worth a look on IMDB to see if it has a synopsis page:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0214305/plotsummary
www.imdb.com/title/tt0142001/plotsummary

I also remember watching Kinvig when it was on back in the early 80s. An often overlooked show, I think it had some fairly strong points

[Deleted]

There's always a possiblity of a t/r being made of Wine Of India too, as the odd Play For Today from 1970 has turned up this way in more recent times (e.g. Robin Redbreast).

Bam Pow Zap! was about a boy addicted to comic books, from what I can remember, and the distinction between what happens in them and real life becomes somewhat blurred to him.

[felixdembinski]

does the year of the sex olympics have chroma dots?