Nigel Kneale
Director
The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
Miniseries
Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.
Released July 18, 1953
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
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Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC Television
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Contact Has Been Established
A British experimental rocket orbits the Earth. After being out of contact for 57 hours, the capsule crashes back to Earth in Wimbledon, London. When the capsule is opened, only one member of the three-man crew emerges, Victor Carroon.
July 18, 1953, midnight
S1E2 - Persons Reported Missing
Victor Carroon is subjected to various tests which indicate that he has taken on the identities of the other two men. Quatermass and Paterson find a gelatinous substance spread around the capsule's interior.
July 25, 1953, midnight
S1E3 - Very Special Knowledge
Carron is taken back to the crash site and a recording of what happened during the orbit is played back to him, with disturbing results. A group of journalists try to kidnap him, but he, in turn, attacks one of them as he begins to change.
Aug. 1, 1953, midnight
S1E4 - Believed to be Suffering
Carroon takes refuge inside a cinema (where a spoof film 'Planet of the Dragons', is on screen). He then goes to a chemist where he appears to in pain and his hand is seen to be badly mutated.
Aug. 8, 1953, midnight
S1E5 - An Unidentified Species
Quatermass picks up Carroon's trail and believes that the mixture of chemicals he has taken will accelerate his metamorphosis. Meanwhile, the killing starts - and Westminster Abbey a pulsating mass is revealed clinging to the building.
Aug. 15, 1953, midnight
S1E6 - State of Emergency
A state of emergency is declared and the army is brought in. Quatermass plays the creature the rocket tapes and appeals to the last vestiges of humanity left in Carroon to fight what he has become. The creature finally dies, just before it is due to spore.
Aug. 22, 1953, midnight
Network: BBC Television
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: July 18, 1953
Last Air Date: Aug. 22, 1953, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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