good evening, thank you forjoining us. i mean it was extraordinary, pioneering television, wasn t it? i mean, nigel kneale practically invented television drama as we know it. because at the time it was like film theatre, casts from west end plays would sometimes go to ally pally on a sunday and take a bow and it was three very heavy cameras on a flat picture, and what they did was, they crashed a spaceship and did very fast, for the time, fast moving and terrifying as well, because it was embedded in the time. 1953 was an optimistic year, the coronation had just happened, westminster abbey had just happened, westminster abbey had been on television, everybody got a television to watch had been on television, everybody got a television to watch westminster abbey, the next time westminster abbey, the next time they saw westminster abbey on they saw westminster abbey on television it was being taken over television it was being taken over by an alien. everest had just been by an alien. e