Quatermass and the Pit

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

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Created By

Nigel Kneale

Status

Ended

Original Name

Quatermass and the Pit

First Air Date

December 22, 1958

Last Air Date

January 26, 1959

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Language

English

Production Companies

BBC

Networks

BBC One

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S01E06

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Despite 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.

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