Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
- Directed by
- Rudolph Cartier
- Genre
- thriller television series, fantasy television series, science fiction television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 23 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Workmen in London dig up a mysterious skull and what looks like an old bomb. A scientist and a military officer investigate and discover it is an alien spacecraft with a dangerous influence. The craft's contents reveal that ancient aliens modified early humans, leaving a legacy that explains human conflict and psychic abilities.
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What happens
Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science fiction serial written by Nigel Kneale and transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the Quatermass serials Kneale wrote for the BBC, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called Quatermass. The serial continues the loose chronology of the Quatermass adventures. Workmen excavating a site in Knightsbridge, London, discover a strange skull and what at first appears to be an unexploded bomb. Quatermass and his newly appointed military superior at the British Rocket Group, Colonel Breen, become involved in the investigation when it becomes apparent that the object is an alien spacecraft. The ship and its contents have a powerful and malignant influence over many of those who come in contact with it, including Quatermass. He concludes that millions of years in the past the aliens, probably from Mars, had abducted pre-humans and modified them to give them psychic abilities much like their own before returning them to Earth, leaving a genetic legacy which is responsible for much of the war and racial strife in the world. The serial has been cited as having influenced Doctor Who, the author Stephen King, and the filmmaker John Carpenter. It featured in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute, which described it as "completely gripping". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Ultraviolet (1998)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.