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The Quatermass Experiment

The Quatermass Experiment

1953 - 1953

Contact Has Been Established

18th July 1953
Episode 1
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.

Persons Reported Missing

25th July 1953
Episode 2
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.

Very Special Knowledge

1st August 1953
Episode 3
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.

Believed to be Suffering

8th August 1953
Episode 4
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.

An Unidentified Species

15th August 1953
Episode 5
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.

State of Emergency

22nd August 1953
Episode 6
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.
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Nigel Kneale
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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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Reginald Tate

Professor Bernard Quatermass

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Isabel Dean

Judith Carroon

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Hugh Kelly

John Paterson

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Duncan Lamont

Victor Carroon

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Paul Whitsun-Jones

James Fullalove

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Nigel Kneale

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