About this episode

This episode discusses Hammer's successful adaptations of BBC properties, focusing on their film 'The Quatermass Xperiment' and its origins in radio detective stories.

Through their early years, Hammer had some fine successes with cheaply adapting BBC properties to the big screen with The Quatermass Xperiment being their most successful of them all, but by the time the grumpy professor had come along, the formula had already proven to be a winner thanks to a certain radio detective... “The House Of Hammer Theme” by Cev Moore Logo by Richard Wells All the links you think you’ll need & more! https://linktr.ee/househammerpod

Topics covered

• Hammer Films
• BBC adaptations
• radio detectives
• film history
• The Quatermass Xperiment

Keywords

• Hammer Films
• BBC
• The Quatermass Xperiment
• radio detective
• film adaptations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC

Books & works: The Quatermass Xperiment

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