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Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's Quatermass serials, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called Quatermass.
Quatermass took science fiction and brought it to a captivated, not to say terrified, mass British audience, while innovating with the multi-camera format of the period, and creating something...
- Adam Scovell
Jul 24, 2013 · Indeed, it’s the Cold War stand-off that brings Britain’s best-known rocket scientist, Professor Bernard Quatermass, into the story when he is called upon by the War Office - it wouldn’t become the Ministry of Defence until 1964 - to advise on the siting of nuclear weapons in space and on the Moon.
The serial opens with the discovery of a human-like skull during construction in the Hobbs Lane area of London. An American paleontologist, Dr. Matthew Roney, find more skeletal remains and proclaims that these "ape men" hail from five million years ago.
Mon, Jan 26, 1959. S1.E6. Hob. Chaos reigns in the pit and the long-dormant Martian inheritance begins to assert itself in many people in the area - including Quatermass himself - driving them to a new racial purge, The capsule breaks open and an energy form rises up over London.
- (1.2K)
- 1958-12-22
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
- 30
The film opened in November 1967 to favourable reviews, and remains generally well regarded. Plot. Workers building an extension to the London Underground at Hobbs End dig up an odd-looking skull. Palaeontologist Dr Matthew Roney identifies the skull as a five-million-year-old apeman, more ancient than previous finds.
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Oct 26, 2024 · Quatermass and the Pit was released in late 1967, almost eight years after the broadcast of the serial it was based on, and ten years since the previous film release. Review by Daniel Tessier. Had they had their way, Hammer would have released Quatermass and the Pit as early as 1961. Nigel Kneale had adapted his own script into a cinematic ...
