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The Quatermass Experiment
1953 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Nigel Kneale
Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.
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Dr Who gets labelled as SF, but it's really Victorian horror in the tradition of Wilkie Collins and Henry James, with a coat of silver science fiction paint and more than a few nods to Shakespeare. It's always had that terrifying aspect with its focus on ghosts, wizard, witches, and monsters, some of whom happen to be alien, all of whom are still recognisable as distorted humanity.
For more mainstream alien SF horror you want Nigel Kneale's Quatermass series. If you squint hard you can see the influence of the original 1950s Quatermass episodes in Dr Who's DNA.