Hobbs Lane in London was the fictional location of QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, the 1958 British speculative fiction tv serial created and written by Nigel Kneale and directed by Rudolph Cartier. This was the third QUATERMASS serial.
In early 1979, a fourth QUATERMASS was announced. I was around ten or eleven years old. I was fascinated by the announcement and materials released – I’d never heard of this show but was very much interested in what I saw. In WH Smith, I saw a paperback entitled QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, and spent birthday money on it. It turned out to be a republication of all the scripts from the serial. So down a hole I went, to meet the ancient Martians. And my own future.
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