 Kneale was not keen to return to the character following this , telling one interviewer , " I blew him up ... and I don 't feel inclined to invent a ' Son of Quatermass ' either . " However , in the late 1990s he conceived an idea for a prequel serial , entitled Quatermass in the Third Reich set in Germany in the 1930s . The idea was submitted to the BBC , who turned it down . 
