Quatermass II

Released: 1955-10-22

Runtime: 30 minutes

Episode Overview

Army Captain John Dillon defies an official clamp-down and takes the remains of an object from space which crashes on Earth to the British Rocket Group. When Quatermass returns with him to investigate the area of Winnerden Flats, he finds a huge synthetic food plant there, identical to his proposed moonbase.

Series Overview

The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens from taking over mankind.