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Quatermass and the Pit [1958 -
1959]
Country
of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 22 December 1958 -
16 January 1959
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 33 mins
Format: black and white broadcast live
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Rudolph Cartier
SCRIPT
Script: Nigel Kneale
PHOTOGRAPHY
Camera: A.A. Englander
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Ian Gallaway
Telerecording Editor: Sheila Tomlinson
MUSIC
Music: Trevor Duncan [repeats only]
SOUND
Sound Effects: BBC Radiophonic Workshop
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Christine Hillcoat
Wardrobe Supervisor: Pamela Glanville
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Jack Kine, Bernard Wilkie Film
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Clifford Hatts
MISCELLANEOUS
Military Adviser: Lt.-Col. P.J. Hands
CAST
Alexander Moyes [narrator]
Andre Morell [Professor Quatermass]
Cec Linder [Dr Matthew Roney]
Anthony Bushell [Colonel Breen]
John Stratton [Captain Potter]
Van Boolen [truck driver]
Michael Raghan [grab operator]
Lionel Ngakane [workman]
George Dudley [old workman]
John Rae [foreman]
Malcolm Watson [museum official]
Stanley Vine [first journalist]
Mark Eden [second journalist]
Patrick Maynard [third journalist]
Christine Finn [Barbara Judd]
Arthur Hewlett [Baines]
Michael Bird [Armitage]
Janet Burnell [interviewer]
Tony Lyon [Teddy boy]
Anne Bushill [Teddy girl]
Janet Joyce [stout woman]
Richard Dare [private secretary to the minister]
Robert Perceval [the minister]
Nan Braunton [Miss Dobson]
Ian Ainsley [police inspector]
Michael Ripper [Sergeant]
Harold Goodwin [Corporal Gibson]
John Walker [Private West]
Victor Platt [PC Ellis]
Kenneth Warren [young constable]
Hilda Barry [Mrs Chilcot]
Peter Grisewood
John Barrett
Charles Maunsell
Lee Richardson
Clifford Cox [1st private]
Brian Gilmar [2nd private]
Edward Malin
Howell Davies [Mr Chilcot]
Madge Brindley [Miss Groome]
Tony Quinn [news editor]
Keith Banks [Nuttall]
Frank Crane [George]
Brian Worth [James Fullalove]
Richard Shaw [Sladden]
Patrick Connor [policeman]
Donald McCollum [elderly librarian]
Fletcher Lightfoot [Abbey librarian]
Kenneth Seeger [Dr Klein]
Bernard Spear [news vendor / customer]
Allan McClelland [1st journalist]
Bill Shine [2nd journalist]
Ian Wilson [3rd journalist]
Noel Howlett [vicar]
Clifford Cox [1st sapper]
Brian Gilmar [2nd sapper]
Harold Siddons [electrician]
Edward Burnham [official]
John Scott Martin [technician]
Anne Blake [woman journalist]
Anthony Pendrell [TV interviewer]
Louise Gainsborough [blonde]
Arthur Brander [man in the blazer]
Sydney Bromley [tattered man]
Stuart Nichol [newscaster]
Budd Knapp [American pilot]
Richard Shaw
SUMMARY
Work on a new London
underground line is halted when a skeleton and what
appears to be World War II missile are uncovered. But the
'missile' turns out to be an alien spacecraft and
Professor Bernard Quatermass is called in to investigate.
It soon turns out that the locust like aliens entombed in
the ship are not as dead as they seem and that millions
of years before they had had arrived on Earth from Mars
to tamper with the brains of primitive ape creatures. The
opening of the ship unleashes the ancient forces of evil
that have lain dormant in humanity for millenia.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The third part of Nigel
Kneale's Quatermass quartet is one of the best, an
extended treatise on the nature of evil, religion and
superstition. It gives us a valuable look at the way
Kneale originally wrote the character before he was
re-invented by Hammer Films. An important and enduring
work of television drama.
The Halfmen [22 December
1958] - 34 mins 5 secs
The Ghosts [29 December 1958] - 33 mins 25 secs
Imps And Demons [5 January 1959] - 33 mins 25 secs
The Enchanted [12 January 1959] - 30 mins 10 secs
The Wild Hunt [19 January 1959] - 32 mins 40 secs
Hob [26 January 1959] - 34 mins
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: BBC Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1958
December
22: The Halfmen - UK television broadcast
29: The Ghosts - UK television broadcast
1959
January
5: Imps And Demons - UK television broadcast
12: The Enchanted - UK television broadcast
19: The Wild Hunt - UK television broadcast
26: Hob - UK television broadcast
POSTER TAGS
An adventure into the unknown from the
classic television series of the fifties [UK video / DVD]
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Quatermass
Experiment [1955]
Quatermass II [1955]
REMAKE
Quatermass and
the Pit [1967]
SEE ALSO
Quatermass 2 [1957]
Quatermass [1978]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cult TV vol.1 no.3 [p.66 [UK]
illustrated article [The Absolute Pits by Bernard Wilkie]
Epi-Log no.16 p.38 [USA]
episode guide, credits
Journal of Popular Film and Television vol.30
no.3 [Autumn 2002] pp.158-165 [USA]
illustrated bibliography, article ["Bring something back"
- The strange career of Professor Quatermass by Dave Robinson
and Nick Cooper]
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.56 no.662
[March 1989] pp.93-94 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review
Starburst no.58 [June 1983] p.40 [UK]
illustrated article with Nigel Kneale [TV Zone by Richard
Hollis]
Starburst no.217 [September 1996] p.26
[UK]
illustrated soundtrack review [by Richard Sayer]
Starburst Special No.62 [February 2004]
p.10 [UK]
illustrated article [Life on Mars by Simon J. Gerard]
Time Screen no.7 [revised] p.23 [UK]
note
TV Zone no.110 [January 1999] pp.36-41
[UK]
illustrated article
TV Zone Special no.25 p.10 [UK]
note
BOOKS
The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy
and Horror Television Series p.635
episode guide, credits
Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.632
UK video data
The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction [3rd
edition] pp.352, 355-256
episode guide, credits, short article
KEYWORDS
religion, aliens, possession, subways, underground,
scientists, military
Last Updated:
6 March, 2007
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