''Quanderhorn'' (titled ''The Quanderhorn Xperimentations'' for series 1 and ''Quanderhorn 2'' for the second series) is a

science fiction comedy Science fiction comedy (sci-fi comedy) or comic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that exploits the science-fiction (SF) genre's conventions for comedy, comedic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirize ...

radio series written by Andrew Marshall and

Rob Grant Robert Grant is an English comedy writer, television producer and co-creator of ''Red Dwarf''. Since ''Red Dwarf'', Grant has written two television series, ''The Strangerers'' and '' Dark Ages'', and four solo novels, his most recent being '' F ...

. The first series was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

in 2018, and a second in 2020. The series has elements that pastiche

Nigel Kneale Thomas Nigel Kneale (28 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British S ...

's Professor

Bernard Quatermass Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional scientist, originally created by the writer Nigel Kneale for BBC Television. An intelligent and highly moral British scientist, Quatermass is a pioneer of the British space programme, heading the Brit ...

Plot

The series follows the adventures of Professor Darius Quanderhorn, a brilliant, but crazy, scientific genius who creates fantastic devices, and has assembled a team of assistants, including his part-insect "son", a recovering amnesiac, a brilliant scientist with a half-clockwork brain, and a captured Martian hostage. The year is 1952, but no one seems to have noticed that it has been that year for the past 65 years. In spite of Quanderhorn saving the world many times, the British government are tired of his eccentric behaviour, and have a mole in his team.

Cast

James Fleet James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' and the dim-w ...

as Professor Darius Quanderhorn *

Ryan Sampson Ryan Oliver Sampson is an English actor, best known for playing Alex Venables in '' After You've Gone'', Grumio in '' Plebs,'' and Tommo in '' Brassic''. He also played Luke Rattigan in the Series 4 two-part story of '' Doctor Who'', "The Sont ...

as Brian Nylon * Cassie Layton as Dr Gemini Jannussen *

Kevin Eldon Kevin Eldon (born 2 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including ''Fist of Fun'', '' This Morning with Richard Not Judy'', '' Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge' ...

as Guuuurk * Freddie Fox as Troy Quanderhorn *

John Sessions John Marshall (11 January 1953 – 2 November 2020), better known by the stage name John Sessions, was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', as a panellist o ...

as Winston Churchill * John Sessions as Jenkins

Episode list

Series 1

# It's Eating My Face # Mummy! My Donkey's Head Is Exploding # A Little Thing Like Chocolate Gates Can't Stop Us # The Splattered Remains of Undentifiable Organs Incident All Over Again # Fear! Terror! Gut-wrenching Horror! Arg Arg. Please! # Dah dah dah dah dah dahh Dah dah dah dah dahhhh...

Series 2

# Killdiboos and Universibold Explodibangbang # Shoveleth in More Hazelnuts! # Wasp # I Didn’t Say it was Well Cloaked # Am I Actually the Other Half of Gemma Emma Emma? # I Heregy Thind You Guilky

In other media

Books

Andrew Marshall and Rob Grant also created a novel based on series one entitled "The Quanderhorn Xperimentations" and released by Gollancz Publishers.The Quanderhorn Xperimentations: FantasticFiction.com
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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quanderhorn Xperimentations British science fiction radio programmes British radio dramas 2018 radio dramas BBC Radio comedy programmes BBC Radio 4 programmes English fiction 2018 radio programme debuts