The Quatermass Experiment
State of Emergency
Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired 1953-08-22
Synopsis
A state of emergency is declared and the army is brought in. Quatermass plays the creature the rocket tapes and appeals to the last vestiges of humanity left in Carroon to fight what he has become. The creature finally dies, just before it is due to spore.
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