For many aficionados of science fiction and the paranormal, Nigel Kneale is a hero. Cited as an influence by John Carpenter, Stephen King and the creators of The X-Files, Kneale's eclectic and intelligent dramas seem even more impressive and prescient today than when they were written in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Kneale had a 50-year career as one of British TV's leading dramatists. As well as his groundbreaking adaptation of 1984, his original work - from Quatermass to The Year of the Sex Olympics - still has the ability to shock and disturb a modern audience: not least because so much of what he predicted over the last half century has come true.

As The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss remarks in John Das' celebration of Kneale's work: "I think Nigel should have a 5-minute slot on TV where the Epilogue used to be, entitled 'I Told You So...'"