Exactly fifty years ago, the BBC TV broadcast the first instalment of THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT – writer Nigel Kneale’s landmark sci-fi thriller concerning a catastrophic launch by a British rocket group. Intended merely to plug a gap in the summer schedules, it’s now regarded as marking the birth of modern TV drama. By way of celebration, this is a rare screening of the first two episodes of the seminal serial (all that exists in the archives) plus THE PHOTOGRAPH – a short story by Kneale, here read for television in 1978 by actor Tom Baker.This special event will be introduced by acclaimed novelist and TV scriptwriter Stephen Gallagher (Oktober, Murder Rooms).