The 1950s sci-fi show Running Commentary thread

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The original TV version of Quatermass and the Pit is on Dailymotion. I have never seen it.

I'm about to change that.



Remember, we have a Dailymotion embedder as well as a YouTube embedder.

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Dramatic trumpety music.

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Sand falling off a thing with the title of the show on it.

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"Episode 1. The Halfmen."

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Episode 2 is called The Halfbiscuit.

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No falling records.

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Oops. Hold on. I need to get it open in another window, so I can see it properly.

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Secrets of the trade.

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"Hobbs Lane."

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Building site.

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If the Internet had been around back then, this would've had a thread on Skyscrapercity.

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Scene actually filmed outdoors.

Take that, Hammer.

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A skull on a shovel.

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Man who looks like Albert Steptoe.

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He's probably only 35.

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It's made the newspapers.

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The skull on a shovel.

Not the man looking like Albert Steptoe.

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Press conference.

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Reporters at a palaeontological press conference don't seem to know what palaeontology is.

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Rowney is Canadian.

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