The Quatermass Experiment
Very Special Knowledge
Season 1, Episode 3 · Aired 1953-08-01
Synopsis
Carron is taken back to the crash site and a recording of what happened during the orbit is played back to him, with disturbing results. A group of journalists try to kidnap him, but he, in turn, attacks one of them as he begins to change.
In the series
This episode is part of The Quatermass Experiment (1953) on BBC.
British rocket horror on a shoestring — the serial that terrified a nation and taught TV to do dread.
Key cast
- Reginald Tate as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- Isabel Dean as Judith Carroon
- Hugh Kelly as John Paterson