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Quatermass and the Pit - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Halfmen

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1958

The Halfmen

During excavation work at a building site in Hobbs Lane, London, workmen discover a skull and other fossilised bones. But are they really remains from a five million-year-old skeleton as claimed by Dr Roney, or something altogether more sinister? Meanwhile, Professor Quatermass, head of The Rocket Group, is resisting government plans to install missiles on the Moon, in a menacing project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent.

The Ghosts

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1958

The Ghosts

Excavation work at a building site in Hobbs Lane, London, unearths fossilised bones and a strange projectile. Colonel Breen believes the projectile to be a bomb, but then terrifying manifestations begin.

Imp & Demons

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1959

Imp & Demons

When Quatermass investigates the history of Hobbs Lane in Knightsbridge, he finds accounts dating back to medieval times about devils and ghosts, all centred on incidents where the ground was disturbed. Meanwhile, the team succeeds in opening a sealed compartment in the capsule.

The Enchanted

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1959

The Enchanted

Dr. Roney and Quatermass develop their theory about the Martians' visit to Earth, whilst in the pit strange forces are conjured up.

The Wild Hunt

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1959

The Wild Hunt

A brain scanner reveals alien pictures in Barbara Judd's mind of 'the Wild Hunt' - the frenetic purging of the Martian hives. In the pit, a technician is killed as the capsule starts to glow.

Hob

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1959

Hob

Chaos reigns in the pit and the long-dormant Martian inheritance begins to assert itself in many people in the area - including Quatermass himself - driving them to a new racial purge.

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