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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Hobbs, Hawkwind, Hogweed...
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 04:00:01 EDT
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From: FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA

 >(1) The film with 'Hobbs End' was originally called
 >
 >Quatermass and the Pit

Right.

 >
 >the awful title 5 Million Years to Earth was a US atrocity.

Right.

 >The film stars Peter Cushing as Prof. Quatermass, 
 
Andrew Kier.  And James Donald played Roney.  Cushing was not in the
film and never played Quatermass.
 
 >
 >The film was the subject of one of the better late Goon Show
 >satires, called Seagoon and the Pit:

Actually, it was called "The Scarlet Capsule."  It is in one of the
collections of Goon Show Plays.

 >Like the two previous Quatermass stories, it was written by
 >Nigel Kneale.

And the one that followed many years later THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION.
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT is the best of the series, though.  People who
have been on the net for a while know that I consider this to be the
best science fiction film I have ever seen.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper