we watch this the other night because of the reputation of the cast particularly mark gatiss and david tennant not to mention the iconic nature of the name quatermass . at the time we do not know that it have be record live . hence we have no idea why there be no special effect and strange apprentice style flyover shot of london and not to mention some bizarre prop choice ( what be that thing that fell on the floor in the art gallery . ) . of course these be either cause by and or design to overcome and the technical limitation of a live broadcast . however i still do not understand the anachronism . if it wasn not for the tate modern and the bbc news bulletin and there would be no reason to think this wasn not a 1950 period drama . the dialogue be in the post imperial stiff upper lip tradition and the newspaper reporter be and bizarrely and a teddy boy . the sad thing be the complete failure of the programme to create any tension and fear or even intellectual curiosity on the viewer part . a wasted opportunity . they should have give this to the doctor who production team and do it properly i. e. and not live .