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The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the spaceship that carried...
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Season 1

  • Contact Has Been Established
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    Contact Has Been Established

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/1953

    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.

    Director: Rudolph Cartier

    Writer: Unknown

  • Persons Reported Missing
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    Persons Reported Missing

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/1953

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Very Special Knowledge
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    Very Special Knowledge

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/1953

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Believed to be Suffering
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    Believed to be Suffering

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/1953

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • An Unidentified Species
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    An Unidentified Species

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/1953

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • State of Emergency
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    State of Emergency

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1953

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown