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Watch Quatermass and the Pit (1958) Online

7.124 votes195830mEndedDramaSci-Fi & FantasyMysteryOfficial site

Synopsis

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

Episodes

Miniseries

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1. The HalfmenNow viewing1958-12-2230mProfessor Quatermass is resisting the planners of a rocket project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent. Meanwhile excavation is going on at Hobbs Lane, long the site of reported imps and devils.
2. The Ghosts1958-12-2930mUncovered, they discover that the interior of the object is empty, and a symbol consisting of five intersecting circles, which Roney identifies as the occult pentagram, is found etched on an interior wall which appears to hide an inner chamber.
3. Imp & Demons1959-01-0530mThe shell of the object is so hard that even a borazon drill makes no impression, and when the attempt is made, strange vibrations cause severe distress in the people around the object. Quatermass interviews the local residents and discovers that sightings of ghosts and other poltergeist activity have been common in the area for decades. Meanwhile, a soldier is carried out of the object in hysterics — he claims to have seen a dwarf-like apparition walk through the wall of the artefact, a description which matches a 1927 newspaper account of a ghost sighting. Following the drilling attempt, a hole has somehow opened up in the wall which allows Quatermass and the others access to the interior chamber.
4. The Enchanted1959-01-1230mFollowing the drilling attempt, a hole has somehow opened up in the wall which allows Quatermass and the others access to the interior chamber. There they find the remains of insect-like aliens resembling giant three-legged locusts, with stubby antennae on their heads giving the impression of horns. As Quatermass and Roney examine the remains, they theorise that the aliens might have come from a nearby planet which was habitable five million years ago — Mars.
5. The Wild Hunt1959-01-1930mQuatermass plans to use an invention of Roney's, an "optic-encephalogram", to see these visions. The device will record impressions from the optical centres of the brain, in effect showing whatever the subject is seeing, hallucinatory or not. He wears the device and goes into the craft, but it is Roney's assistant, Barbara Judd, who is affected most. Placing the device on her, they record what she "sees"—a violent, bloody purge of the Martian hive, to root out unwanted mutations.
6. Hob1959-01-2630mDespite 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.

Cast

Top Billed Cast

André Morell
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Cec Linder
Dr. Matthew Roney
John Stratton
Captain Potter
Christine Finn
Barbara Judd
Anthony Bushell
Colonel James Breen

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Is Quatermass and the Pit available to watch online?

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How many seasons does Quatermass and the Pit have?

Quatermass and the Pit has 1 season and 6 episodes.

When did Quatermass and the Pit first air?

Quatermass and the Pit first aired in 1958.

Is Quatermass and the Pit still running?

Quatermass and the Pit's status on TMDB is: Ended.

What genre is Quatermass and the Pit?

Quatermass and the Pit is classified as Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery.