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Contact Has Been Established E1 30 min

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.

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Persons Reported Missing E2 30 min

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.

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Very Special Knowledge E3 30 min

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.

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Believed to be Suffering E4 30 min

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.

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An Unidentified Species E5 30 min

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.

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State of Emergency E6 30 min

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.

The Quatermass Experiment poster

The Quatermass Experiment (1953)

6.7 (16) 1 Season 30m/ep 1953-07-18 GB

Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Stars: Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Duncan Lamont, Paul Whitsun-Jones