In February 1959 the BBC radio comedy series "The Goon Show" broadcast a parody of "Quatermass and the Pit", entitled "The Scarlet Capsule". Harry Secombe played his regular character in "The Goon Show", Neddie Seagoon, in turn playing "Professor Ned Cratermess, OBE." This was followed later in the same year by a spoof on another BBC radio comedy show, "That Man Chester", which launched a regular strand entitled "The Quite-a-Mess Three Saga", with Deryck Guyler as "Professor Quite-a-Mess". However, the "Quite-a-Mess" name and references were dropped after only three of the episodes under pressure from Kneale, who felt a 13-week spoof would be to the detriment of the original character.