Quatermass and the Pit

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  • Premiered: Dec 1958
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Unknown
  • Drama Horror Science-fiction Thriller

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Season 1
1x1
The Halfmen
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 22, 1958
Work on a building site is suspended when a skull is found. Dr Matthew Roney believes that this find is very important - a missing link in human development. Under pressure to allow .. show full overview
1x2
The Ghosts
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 29, 1958
Uncovered, they discover that the interior of the object is empty, and a symbol consisting of five intersecting circles, which Roney identifies as the occult pentagram, is found etched on an interior wall which appears to hide an inner chamber.
1x3
Imps and Demons
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 05, 1959
The shell of the object is so hard that even a borazon drill makes no impression, and when the attempt is made, strange vibrations cause severe distress in the people around the object. .. show full overview
1x4
The Enchanted
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 12, 1959
Following the drilling attempt, a hole has somehow opened up in the wall which allows Quatermass and the others access to the interior chamber. There they find the remains of insect-like .. show full overview
1x5
The Wild Hunt
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 19, 1959
Quatermass plans to use an invention of Roney's, an "optic-encephalogram", to see these visions. The device will record impressions from the optical centres of the brain, in effect .. show full overview
1x6 Show finale
Hob
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 26, 1959
Despite his warnings, the media event occurs, and the power cables that string into the craft fully activate it for the first time. Glowing and humming like a living thing, it starts .. show full overview

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