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Nigel Kneale (1922 - 2006) was a popular and influential British screenwriter whose work had a lasting effect on television drama. Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would be keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
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Nigel Kneale (1922 - 2006) was a popular and influential British [[UsefulNotes/IsleOfMan Manx]] screenwriter whose work had a lasting effect on television drama. Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would be keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
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* ''The Creature'', later adapted as the Film/HammerHorror film ''The Abominable Snowman'' (both also starring Peter Cushing).
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'''Nigel Kneale''' (1922 - 2006) was a popular and influential British screenwriter whose work had a lasting effect on television drama. Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would be keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
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'''Nigel Kneale''' (1922 - 2006) was a popular and influential British screenwriter whose work had a lasting effect on television drama. \n Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
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Other works by Nigel Kneale provide examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* DeadlyGame: What the reality show in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* RealityTV: The ShowWithinAShow in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prefiguring ''BigBrother'' by thirty years
* SciFiGhetto
* TrumanShowPlot: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
Other works by Nigel Kneale provide examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* DeadlyGame: What the reality show in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* RealityTV: The ShowWithinAShow in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prefiguring ''BigBrother'' by thirty years
* SciFiGhetto
* TrumanShowPlot: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
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* DeadlyGame: What the reality show in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* RealityTV: The ShowWithinAShow in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prefiguring ''BigBrother'' by thirty years
* SciFiGhetto
* TrumanShowPlot: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
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* ''Film/TheStoneTape''
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* LivingMemory: The premise of ''The Stone Tape''
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'''Nigel Kneale''' (1922 - 2006) was a popular and influential British screenwriter whose work had a lasting effect on television drama.
Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
His television works include:
* ''[[{{Quatermass}} The Quatermass Experiment]]'' and sequels
* A popular adaptation of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' starring PeterCushing
* ''The Creature'', later adapted as the HammerHorror film ''The Abominable Snowman'' (both also starring Peter Cushing)
* ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prescient drama set in a dystopian future where the population is kept docile with a diet of low-brow reality shows
* ''The Stone Tape'', in which scientists bite off more than they can chew while attempting to figure out the scientific basis of a haunting
His film screenplays include:
* The 1964 film version of ''FirstMenInTheMoon''
* ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' (the one with no Michael Myers) -- wrote the original screenplay, but left in protest of ExecutiveMeddling
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Works by Nigel Kneale with their own trope pages:
* {{Quatermass}} series
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Other works by Nigel Kneale provide examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* ComputerEqualsTapeDrive: Averted in ''The Stone Tape'' -- the computer has a tape drive, but it would in that day and age, and the rest of the computer is also present and depicted accurately.
* DeadlyGame: What the reality show in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* LivingMemory: The premise of ''The Stone Tape''
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* RealityTV: The ShowWithinAShow in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prefiguring ''BigBrother'' by thirty years
* SciFiGhetto
* TrumanShowPlot: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
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Many of his works contain SF and horror elements, though he fiercely resisted being labelled as "a science fiction writer". (Considering some of the company his work would keeping in the annals of TV sci-fi writing, one can understand his reluctance.)
His television works include:
* ''[[{{Quatermass}} The Quatermass Experiment]]'' and sequels
* A popular adaptation of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' starring PeterCushing
* ''The Creature'', later adapted as the HammerHorror film ''The Abominable Snowman'' (both also starring Peter Cushing)
* ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prescient drama set in a dystopian future where the population is kept docile with a diet of low-brow reality shows
* ''The Stone Tape'', in which scientists bite off more than they can chew while attempting to figure out the scientific basis of a haunting
His film screenplays include:
* The 1964 film version of ''FirstMenInTheMoon''
* ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' (the one with no Michael Myers) -- wrote the original screenplay, but left in protest of ExecutiveMeddling
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Works by Nigel Kneale with their own trope pages:
* {{Quatermass}} series
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Other works by Nigel Kneale provide examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* ComputerEqualsTapeDrive: Averted in ''The Stone Tape'' -- the computer has a tape drive, but it would in that day and age, and the rest of the computer is also present and depicted accurately.
* DeadlyGame: What the reality show in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* LivingMemory: The premise of ''The Stone Tape''
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
* RealityTV: The ShowWithinAShow in ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'', prefiguring ''BigBrother'' by thirty years
* SciFiGhetto
* TrumanShowPlot: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''
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