Toby Hadoke’s book on The Quatermass Experiment delves deeply into the creation of the first of the Nigel Kneale serials:

It’s sad now that when I say to people that I’m writing a Quatermass book, I have to explain what Quatermass is. When I told people when I was fifteen in the 1980s that I was “writing a Quatermass book”, I didn’t have to explain what it was to anybody. It was part of our race memory, if you like. So the fact that it had persevered and etched itself into the consciousness of everybody meant I respected it before I saw it.

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