📺 'Quatermass' Wednesday 24 October 1979 -- ITV: 21:00 The first Quatermass adventure was screened on the BBC in 1953. This four-part series starred John Mills as Professor Quatermass, with Simon McCorkindale as an astronomer and Barbara Kellerman as his wife. It's set some time in the not-too-distant future. The story begins with Professor Quatermass arriving in London, with the city little more than a pile of rubble and on the brink of anarchy, to appear on a television programme about a join