 Despite the success of the serial , Kneale felt that he had now taken the character of Quatermass as far as he could . " I didn 't want to go on repeating because Professor Quatermass had already saved the world from ultimate destruction three times , and that seemed to me to be quite enough , " he said in 1986 . It was also his final new collaboration with Rudolph Cartier , although the director did later handle a new version of Kneale 's 1953 adaptation of Wuthering Heights for the BBC in 1962 . 
