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Il personaggio del [[Bernard Quatermass|professor Quatermass]] venne creato dallo scrittore [[Isola di Man|mannita]] [[Nigel Kneale]] nel [[1953]] per la [[miniserie televisiva]] ''[[The Quatermass Experiment (serie televisiva)|The Quatermass Experiment]]''. Il successo della produzione, portò a realizzare due seguiti, ''[[Quatermass II (serie televisiva)|Quatermass II]]'' e ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (serie televisiva)|Quatermass and the Pit]]''<ref name="knealescreen">{{Cita web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/458926/index.html|titolo=Kneale, Nigel (1922–2006)|nome=Sergio|cognome=Angelini|editore=[[Screenonline]]|accesso=16 maggio 2007}}</ref> Queste tre serie della saga di Quatermassn sono considerati a tutt'oggi come produzioni televisive seminali degli [[Anni 1950|anni cinquanta]]. Kneale, comunque, si discostò dalla [[BBC]] e nei tardi anni cinquanta divenne uno scrittore [[freelance]], realizzando copioni per la [[Hammer Films]] e la [[Associated Television]].<ref name="Murray_passim">{{en}} Murray, ''Into the Unknown'', ''passim''.</ref>
L'idea di riportare in televisione il personaggio del professor Quatermass per una quarta avventura, si deve alla produttrice [[Irene Shubik]] che, nel 1965, chiese a Kneale di scrivere una nuova storia per la prima stagione della sua serie antologica di fantascienza, ''[[Out of the Unknown]]''.<ref name="Pixley_c_39">{{en}} Pixley, ''The Quatermass Collection – Viewing Notes'', p. 39.</ref> Di questo progetto non se ne fece nulla, ma la prospettiva di una nuova apparizione televisiva del personaggio di Quatermass risuscitò in seguito al successo del film ''[[L'astronave degli esseri perduti]]'', quando la Hammer annunciò di essere in trattativa con Kneale per un nuovo episodio della saga.<ref name="Screen_1">{{en}}Screen, ''Production Notes'', Disc 1.</ref> Neanche questo progetto andò oltre le iniziali trattative. Nel frattempo Kneale venne persuaso a tornare a lavorare per la BBC, scrivendo alcune sceneggiature quali:
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Kneale began writing the scripts, working to a delivery deadline of February 1973.<ref>Pixley, ''All the Rage of the World'', p. 49.</ref> Much of the setting for the story was influenced by contemporary political events such as [[Strike action|strike]]s, [[Three-Day Week|power cuts]], the [[1973 oil crisis|Oil Crisis]] and developments in the [[Space Race]], especially the planned [[Apollo-Soyuz Test Project|Apollo-Soyuz]] missions and [[Skylab]].<ref name="Murray_119">Murray, ''Into the Unknown'', p. 119.</ref> Writing in the [[listings magazine]] ''[[TV Times]]'' to promote the serial, Kneale said, “''Quatermass'' is a story of the future – but perhaps only a few years from now. There are some clues already in the most obvious places: the streets. Pavements littered with rubbish. Walls painted with angry graffiti. [[Belfast]] black with smoke and rage. Worst of all, the mindless violence”.<ref name="Screen_2">Screen, ''Production Notes'', Disc 2.</ref> Concerns about the state of society, especially the “dropout” culture of the youth movement, had been a theme of Kneale's writing for some time, as seen in such works as ''The Big, Big Giggle'', an unmade play about a teenage suicide cult; ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', about the consequences of a world with no censorship or inhibitions; and ''Bam! Pow! Zap!'' (1969), about teenage delinquents, all of which fed into the world depicted in the new ''Quatermass'' serial.<ref name="Murray_137">Murray, ''Into the Unknown'', p. 137.</ref><ref>Rigby, ''Ancient Fears'', p. 53.</ref> Kneale said, “I looked at the alarming aspects of contemporary trends. Since then, we'd seen '[[flower power]]' and hippies, so all I did was bring them into the story. It was written in 1972 and it was about the sixties really”.<ref name="Screen_1" /> Another theme that had crept into Kneale's writing at this time, as seen in ''Wine of India'', about compulsory [[euthanasia]] for the elderly, and, later, the ''[[Beasts (TV series)|Beasts]]'' episode “During Barty's Party”, about an elderly couple terrorised by rats, was the consequences of growing old.<ref name="Murray_137" /> Kneale later recalled, “The theme I was trying to get to was the old redressing the balance with the young, saving the young, which I thought a nice, paradoxical, ironic idea after the youth-oriented 60s”.<ref>Rigby, ''Ancient Fears'', p. 52.</ref>
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