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Lincoln Taxi Driver turned Screen Writer Thwarted
by Wall of Silence
L
incoln taxi driver Graham Lilley is attempting “I was taken aback by their blunt attitude, I The character of Quatermass suffered oblique
to complete Nigel Knealeʼs fi nal Quatermass wasnʼt even given the opportunity to discuss references in the hit TV series ʻDr Whoʼ
project. ʻQuatermass in the Third Reich.ʼ the matter!” Mr Lilley went on, “I was very when mentions were made of ʻBernard”, the
However, despite campaigning the BBC and disappointed! The epic, consuming two entire “Professor” and ʻBeRGʼ - his ʻBritish Rocketry
a number of publisherʼs agencies for the Nigel fl oppy disks included characters of my own, Group.ʼ This caused confl ict with the BBC
Kneale estate, all have refused to answer his which I wanted to use in other stories, even
because Mr Kneale considered ʻDr Whoʼ to
letters although a stamped addressed envelope without the ʻSaint.ʼ
be far too violent for childrenʼs television,
being included with his introductory letter.
culminating in an infamous TV debate
“I have qualms about the title of ʻQuatermass
between Nigel Kneale and the-then producers
Mr Lilley, a taxi driver since 1979 in Grimsby, in the Third Reichʼ because it might have
of ʻDr Who.ʼ
Cleethorpes, Sleaford, Peterborough and racist implications. The fi rst three serials very
Lincoln continues to campaign the TV much, and in particular ʻQuatermass and the
At least two of these movies have been
companies. He has been writing since 1996 and Pitʼ refl ected the post-war atmosphere. I am
parodied by other movie-makers. In 1979
describes his catalogue of work as immense. also concerned that without the input of the TV
Thames Television made the movie and TV
“They simply wonʼt reply to my letters, Iʼve companies I have no parameters for the story!”
serial ʻThe Quatermass Conclusionʼ starring the
even tried contacting the Head of the BBC,
famous John Mills, which told of Quatermass
Mark Thompson a career horticulturalist and Mr Lilley still remembers playing in the
search for his granddaughter, Hettie and their
environmentalist,” said 57-year-old Mr Lilley. “I bombsites of post-war Grimsby: “I was playing
fi nal, fatal confl ict with an alien entity. In 2004
enjoy writing as a pastime and also dabble in in the rubble one day when I found something
the BBC remade ʻThe Quatermass Experimentʼ
writing new stories for the old Adam Adamant interesting and took it home. The next thing
albeit into a 2-hour special of the original TV
Lives! BBC TV series.” I knew squaddies were tramping through the
serial only the fi rst two episodes remain and
house - it was an unexploded ʻfi refl yʼ (incendiary
were fi lms in black and white.
Mr Lilley has sometimes considered collecting bomb). For months afterwards Dad would order
his taxi driver anecdotes and stories into a me. “If you fi nd anything while playing, leave
single volume: ʻLoneliness of the Long Distance it where it bloominʼ well is.” “I remember even
“My fi rst exposure to the ʻQuatermassʼ mythos
Taxi Driverʼ how does that sound? wilder instances whilst playing in the bombsites
was as a six-year-old boy in 1957 hiding behind
and these might just be included in my story!”
the settee shouting, “Have they gone yet Dad?”
“I only had four lines of information about Mr
I have a video copy of the original ʻQuatermass
Knealeʼs proposed TV serial, from which Iʼve Nigel Kneale shot to fame in the mid-fi fties
and the Pitʼ serial and canʼt get by without my
researched and written more than 600 plus when the BBC made the groundbreaking ʻThe
ʻweekly fi xʼ.
pages of TV script, with a target of about 1,400 Quatermass Experiment.ʼ This was shortly
pages and thereʼs a possible non-Quatermass followed by ʻQuatermass 11ʼ and ʻQuatermass
“It was my father that turned me on to science-
prequel. But, without the much-respected Mr and the Pitʼ, the latter starring the brilliant Andre
fi ction and thus led me to a lifelong love of
Knealeʼs notes for the proposed story and the Morell, each of which was made into a movie by
the subject. My story differs from Mr Knealeʼs
use of Mr Knealeʼs characters, I simply cannot Hammer Films.
ʻQuatermassʼ, the original stories were with
write a Quatermass TV serial.”
a beginning and an end covering a few days,
Although a pre-teen at that time, Mr Lilley can
whereas my story would take the form of a diary
Quatermass is a copyrighted character. Mr Lilley remember the furore ʻQuatermass and the
covering a number of years.
feels sure that he could have stayed faithful to Pitʼ caused amongst religious types because
the original character of Quatermass, and being Mr Knealeʼs story used the paranormal as a
“My story is going to be completed, even without
a prequel could have revisited some of the different kind of science. “Having studied the
the input of ʻQuatermass, the Nigel Kneale
supporting characters for the other TV serials. original, many times, I believe that Mr Kneale
estate or the BBC or anyone else! - I fi nd writing
might have been closer to the truth than we can
fi ction ridiculously easy; I know my characters
Mr Lilley has come across the problem of imagine! And Mr Kneale did not stint on just how
personally and have met most of them every
copyrighted characters before. A few years dangerous the paranormal is!” day in my wanderings as a taxi driver. Please
ago, Mr Lilley wrote a lengthy epic based on donʼt get into my taxi - you might end up in
ʻThe Saintʼ mythos and was politely told by the “In later life, as a Christian I have been involved one of my stories.”
Leslie Charteris estate that this was a copyright in exorcisms a number of times and Iʼm one of
character and cannot be used. the fi rst to warn of the dangers of the occult.” Graham Lilley
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