Quatermass II
Drama
Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group is sought to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens from taking over mankind.
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Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group is sought to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens from taking over mankind.
1The Bolts22 Oct 1955 · 31mArmy Captain John Dillon defies an official clamp-down and takes the remains of an object from space which crashes on Earth to the British Rocket Group. When Quatermass returns with him to investigate the area of Winnerden Flats, he finds a huge synthetic food plant there, identical to his proposed moonbase.
2The Mark29 Oct 1955 · 30mDillon is infected by gas from one of the objects from space and bears a scar. He is taken away to the Plant by similarly scarred zombie- like guards. When Quatermass tries to get news of him, he finds local officials very unhelpful.
3The Food5 Nov 1955 · 33mQuatermass joins Vincent Broadhead MP at an enquiry into the Plant, to find all the commission members bear scars. Left alone there, Broadhead is affected by the gas. Quatermass, Ward and Fowler get into the Plant where Ward is killed by a foul burning su bstance in a 'food dome'.
4The Coming12 Nov 1955 · 30mPugh finds that the objects are coming from an asteroid and Quatermass goes with journalist Hugh Conrad to talk to the workforce from the Plant. That night, many objects fall in the area to be collected by the guards.
5The Frenzy19 Nov 1955 · 31mQuatermass enters the Plant and sees an alien creature in the slime stored in the food domes. The workers, led by Paddy, revolt and occupy the pumping room to stop the gas flow to the domes, pumping in oxygen. The guards retaliate by using human bodies to block the pipeline.
6The Destroyers26 Nov 1955 · 33mQuatermass escapes from the Plant as it explodes and returns with Pugh to the Rocket Group where Dillon and the zombies have taken over. Pugh and Quatermass plan to go to the asteroid in the Quatermass II rocket and destroy the alien force.
Details
- Created by
- Nigel Kneale
- First aired
- 22 Oct 1955
- Last aired
- 26 Nov 1955
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6
- Votes
- 18 on TMDB
Cast
John RobinsonProfessor Bernard Quatermass- MMonica GreyPaula Quatermass
Hugh GriffithDr Leo Pugh
