The Quatermass Experiment Miniseries
Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.
1. Contact Has Been Established
A British experimental rocket orbits the Earth. After being out of contact for 57 hours, the capsule crashes back to Earth in Wimbledon, London. When the capsule is opened, only one member of the three-man crew emerges, Victor Carroon.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
Oliver Johnston
News Editor
Rudolph Cartier
Director
2. Persons Reported Missing
Victor Carroon is subjected to various tests which indicate that he has taken on the identities of the other two men. Quatermass and Paterson find a gelatinous substance spread around the capsule's interior.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
John Glen
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Ian Colin
DI Lomax
Frank Hawkins
DS Best
Christopher Rhodes
Dr Ludwig Reichenheim
Peter Bathurst
Charles Greene
Oliver Johnston
News Editor
3. Very Special Knowledge
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.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
John Glen
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Ian Colin
DI Lomax
Frank Hawkins
DS Best
Christopher Rhodes
Dr Ludwig Reichenheim
Peter Bathurst
Charles Greene
4. Believed to be Suffering
Carroon takes refuge inside a cinema (where a spoof film 'Planet of the Dragons', is on screen). He then goes to a chemist where he appears to in pain and his hand is seen to be badly mutated.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
John Glen
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Ian Colin
DI Lomax
Frank Hawkins
DS Best
Oliver Johnston
News Editor
5. An Unidentified Species
Quatermass picks up Carroon's trail and believes that the mixture of chemicals he has taken will accelerate his metamorphosis. Meanwhile, the killing starts - and Westminster Abbey a pulsating mass is revealed clinging to the building.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
John Glen
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Ian Colin
DI Lomax
Frank Hawkins
DS Best
John Kidd
Sir Vernon Dodds
6. State of Emergency
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.
Reginald Tate
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Isabel Dean
Judith Carroon
Hugh Kelly
John Paterson
Duncan Lamont
Victor Carroon
Paul Whitsun-Jones
James Fullalove
John Glen
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Ian Colin
DI Lomax
Frank Hawkins
DS Best
Christopher Rhodes
Dr Ludwig Reichenheim
Peter Bathurst
Charles Greene
John Kidd
Sir Vernon Dodds