Five Million Years to Earth/Fun Facts

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  • Noel Howlett played the role of the vicar in the original BBC TV serial.
  • Duncan Lamont, here playing the tormented drill operator Sladden, played the doomed astronaut Victor Carroon in the very first Quatermass TV series, "The Quatermass Experiment" (1953).
  • Roney's mental image, seen on a small screen when the apparatus is being calibrated, is a shot from early in Four Sided Triangle (1953), an earlier Hammer science fiction film.
  • Noel Howlett played the role of the vicar in the original BBC TV serial.
  • Julian Glover had to perform his own stunts, including the scene where Colonel Breen falls over into the pit.
  • If you look closely at the London Underground station walls, you can see quite a few posters from other Hammer projects such as The Reptile (1966), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and The Witches (1966).
  • Van Heflin was considered for the role of Quatermass.
  • Julian Glover was chosen by Roy Ward Baker to play Colonel Breen.
  • The outside broadcast television cameras (and the TV channel glimpsed on a pub monitor) bear the genuine logo of ITV regional broadcaster ABCTV - ironic for an adaption of a serial made by the rival BBC channel.
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