Nigel Kneale Trailers
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Total trailers found: 39
22 October 1982
A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask.
01 July 1964
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
26 August 1957
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
15 September 1959
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
24 October 1979
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
23 October 1976
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
13 November 1976
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
01 April 1995
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas.
10 May 1962
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
21 November 1966
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby.
19 January 1964
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
20 November 1976
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.
16 October 1976
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.
06 November 1976
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage.
29 September 1963
In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole, investigate.
25 July 1960
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
25 December 1972
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium.
29 July 1968
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography.
24 May 1957
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.
05 March 1969
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
04 September 1981
Lazy repairman Des Kinvig's life changes when he imagines meeting a glamorous alien from Mercury, who looks a lot like his latest customer Miss Griffin.
27 July 1975
When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.
01 January 1987
Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit.
28 November 1965
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
06 December 1986
A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night.
26 August 1955
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
24 December 1989
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate.
09 November 1967
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
30 October 1976
When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction.
15 April 1970
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program.
01 January 2005
Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Kneale talk about there careers
15 October 2003
Documentary about Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass.
01 January 1967
"The Quatermass Experiment" was a 1967 Australian teleplay based on a novel by Nigel Kneale - "The Quatermass Experiment".
02 April 2005
Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.
15 April 1962
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty.
16 December 1954
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member.
17 June 1964
The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?
25 December 1978
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings.
06 December 1953
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.