Now I pulled this off of some blog and I don't know how factual the information might be, but why could this not be true.And the more I ponder my subtext question in this thread, the more I'm convinced I'm on to something here.

<<He considered the possibility of a Quatermass prequel set in 1930s Germany while working on the commentary for the 1997 DVD release of The Quatermass Conclusion. The storyline concerned the young Quatermass helping a Jewish woman escape from the Nazis during the 1936 Olympics, but it was never produced, although his final script was an episode of Kavanagh QC concerning a Jewish woman who had been subjected to horrific experiments in a concentration camp. It is possible that these storylines were coloured by his friendship with the Jewish Rudolph Cartier, who had fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s.>>

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