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The Quatermass Experiment

19531 Season30m episodes6.7

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

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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.

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Writing: Nigel Kneale
Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 18, 1953
Network: BBC Television
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Reginald Tate

Professor Bernard Quatermass

Isabel Dean

Judith Carroon

Hugh Kelly

John Paterson

Duncan Lamont

Victor Carroon

Paul Whitsun-Jones

James Fullalove

SERIES

The Quatermass Experiment

19531 Season30m episodes6.7

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

TMDB6.7

Votes16

Your rating

Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Jul 18, 1953 · 32m
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.
E2 · Airs Jul 25, 1953 · 35m
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.
E3 · Airs Aug 1, 1953 · 30m
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.
E4 · Airs Aug 8, 1953 · 30m
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.
E5 · Airs Aug 15, 1953 · 30m
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.
E6 · Airs Aug 22, 1953 · 30m
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.

Details

Writing: Nigel Kneale
Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 18, 1953
Network: BBC Television
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Reginald Tate

Professor Bernard Quatermass

Isabel Dean

Judith Carroon

Hugh Kelly

John Paterson

Duncan Lamont

Victor Carroon

Paul Whitsun-Jones

James Fullalove

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