This November marks the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. It’s an important milestone for a show that, like its hero, will not die. However, some science-fiction fans are disappointed that the BBC is not celebrating another, arguably more seminal birthday this month: the 60th anniversary of The Quatermass Experiment. Mention Quatermass to anyone over 40 and you’ll invoke a very British sense of horror and a narrowly-averted apocalypse. Quatermass was never a cult character; he was decidedly mainstream. He was British TV’s first fictional creation who could ‘empty the pubs’. Kneale died in 2006, but his influence over UK media … Continue reading #Quatermass at 60 – E&T magazine reflects on a technologist hero