S01E01 The Halfmen
Professor Quatermass is resisting the planners of a rocket project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent. Meanwhile excavation is going on at Hobbs Lane, long the site of reported imps and devils.
Quatermass and the Pit
Overview
A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
Episodes
S01E02 The Ghosts
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...
S01E03 Imp & Demons
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. Quatermass interviews...
S01E04 The Enchanted
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 aliens resembling giant three-legged...
S01E05 The Wild Hunt
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 showing whatever the subject is seeing, hallucinatory...
S01E06 Hob
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 drawing upon this...
Cast
André Morell
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Cec Linder
Dr. Matthew Roney
John Stratton
Captain Potter
Christine Finn
Barbara Judd
Anthony Bushell
Colonel James Breen
