Quatermass II

Original title : The Bolts
First Aired : 22.10.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : John Stone (Captain John Dillon), Brian Hayes (Sergeant Grice) Tony Lyons (Private), Eric Lugg (Fred Large), Hilda Barry (Mrs Large), Herbert Lomas (Robert), Richard Cuthbert (Landlord), Kim Grant (First technician), Peter Macarte (Second tech nician), Peter Carver (Australian Commentator) and Nikola Sterne, Fletcher Lightfoot, Scott Harrold, Austin Webb

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Mark
First Aired : 29.10.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : John Stone, Rupert Davies (Vincent Broadhead), Austin Trevor (Fowler), John Miller (Stenning), Wilfred Brambell (Tramp), Peter Carver (Inspector Clifford), Michael Brennan (Dawson), Sheila Martin (Child), Hilda Fenemore* (Mother), Michael Coll ins (Thompson, a laboratory assistant), Dina Chesney (Secretary), O'Donovan Shiell (Head of Commission), Malcolm Watson, Robert S. Young, Bernard Dudley, Michael Dunne, Carl Lacey (Members of Commission); Edwin Brown, Brian Moorehead, Dermot MacMahon (Guards) with Claude Bonsor

The Story : Dillon is infected by gas from one of the objects from space and bears a scar. He is taken away to the Plant by similarly scarred zombie- like guards. When Quatermass tries to get news of him, he finds officialdom very unhelpful.

Original title : The Food
First Aired : 05.11.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : Rupert Davies, Austin Trevor, John Miller, Derek Aylward (Ward), O'Donovan Shiell, John Cazabon (Doctor), Margaret Flint (Waitress), Ilona Ference (Mother), Sydney Bromley (Father), Melvyn Hayes (Frankie), Trevor Reid (Analyst), Philip Levene (Supervisor), Scott Harrold (Medical Attendant), Stephen Scott (Guard) with Manny Michael, Charles Price, Dermot MacMahon, Peter Roy Taylor, Reginald Jessup, David Gordon, Michael Bilton, Patrick Carter, Philip Ingram

The Story : Quatermass joins Vincent Broadhead MP at an enquiry into the Plant, to find all the commission members bear scars. Left alone there, Broadhead is affected by the gas. Quatermass, Ward and Fowler get into the Plant where Ward is killed by a foul burning su bstance in a 'food dome'.

Original title : The Coming
First Aired : 12.11.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : Austin Trevor, Roger Delgado (Conrad), Michael Golden (Paddy), John Rae (McLeod), Elsie Arnold (Mrs McLeod), Ian Wilson (Ernie), Tom Clegg (Guard), Martin Lane (Technician), Desmond Jordan (Young workman), Malcolm Knight (Office boy) with Queenie Ba rratt, Charles Price, Bryan Kendrick

The Story : Pugh finds that the objects are coming from an asteroid and Quatermass goes with journalist Hugh Conrad to talk to the workforce at the Plant. That night, many objects fall in the area to be collected by the guards.

Original title : The Frenzy
First Aired : 19.11.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : John Stone, Michael Golden, John Rae, Desmond Jordan, Ian Wilson; Denton de Gray, Martin Lane (Technicians)

The Story : Quatermass enters the Plant and sees an alien creature in the slime stored in the food domes. The workers, led by Paddy, revolt and occupy the pumping room to stop the gas flow to the domes, pumping in oxygen. The guards retaliate by using human bodies to block the pipeline.

Original title : The Destroyers
First Aired : 26.11.1955
Director : Rudolph Cartier
Writing credits : Nigel Kneale
Cast : John Stone, Denis McCarthy (Doctor), Cyril Shaps (Control Assistant), Denton de Gray (Technician)

The Story : Quatermass escapes from the Plant as it explodes and returns with Pugh to the Rocket Group where Dillon and the zombies have taken over. Pugh and Quatermass plan to go to the asteroid in the Quatermass II rocket and destroy the alien force.