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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit

A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.

Created ByNigel Kneale
StatusEnded
Original NameQuatermass and the Pit
First Air DateDecember 22, 1958
Last Air DateJanuary 26, 1959
Seasons1
Episodes6
Episode Runtime 30min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production CompaniesBBC
NetworksBBC One
Hob
S01E06

Hob

Despite his warnings, the media event occurs, and the power cables that string into the craft fully activate it for the first time. Glowing and humming like a living thing, it starts drawing upon this energy source and awakening the ancient racial programming. Those people of London in whom the alien admixture remains strong fall under the ship's influence; they merge into a group mind and begin a telekinetic mass murder of those without the alien genes, an 'ethnic cleansing' of those that the alien race mind considers impure and weak.

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