

Quatermass II
1955 · BBC One · 30 min · 1 season
S01E06 · The Destroyers
Sun, 27 Nov, 6:00 am
Quatermass succeeds in launching his rocket and he and Pugh for the asteroid. But Pugh has been over and Quatermass must overcome his attack before he can defeat the evil force on the asteroid.
About
"Quatermass II" is a British science-fiction serial, originally broadcast by BBC Television in the autumn of 1955. Meteorites are falling over Northern England, one of which is observed by an Army radar unit. After a farmer finds one of the objects in a field, the soldiers become directly involved, and Captain Johnny Dillon decides to unofficially ask the father of his fiancée, Paula, to investigate. Paula's father is Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group — "the rocket man!", as one of Dillon's troops puts it. Quatermass and the Rocket Group, now including Paula and mathematical genius Dr. Leo Pugh, are recovering from the news that one of the twonuclear Quatermass II rockets has exploded during a ground test in Australia, killing hundreds of staff and ending their project to build permanent bases on the Moon.
Episodes
- E01
The Bolts
Sun, 23 Oct· 30 minArmy captain John Dillon defies a clampdown to take the remains of a crashed object to Quatermass's British Rocket Group. Quatermass returns with him to the crash site - a huge domed chemical plant. While they are there, another small object crashes, a gas seeps out and a small bubble appears on Dillon's cheek.
- E02
The Mark
Sun, 30 Oct· 30 minDillon has been affected and now has a scar on his cheek. He is taken away to the plant by some zombie-like guards and Quatermass is unable to find out what has happened to him. He later visits Vincent Broadhead, an MP who has been probing the plant's activities, and joins him at an official inquiry, But several of the commission also bear scars.
- E03
The Food
Sun, 6 Nov· 30 minBroadhead becomes the latest victim of the gas. Quatermass tricks his way inside the plant with Ward and Fowler. Ward gets separated and strays into one of the food domes - then emerges covered in a burning synthetic food, and dies. Back at the rocked base, Pugh has discovered the origin of the objects - an asteroid on the dark side of the Earth.
- E04
The Coming
Sun, 13 Nov· 30 minQuatermass visits the community near the plant but encounters suspicion as he tries to stir up the workers - until a new falling of objects convinces them. They march on the plant and, inside, Quatermass see a huge alien creature growing inside one of the food domes.
- E05
The Frenzy
Sun, 20 Nov· 30 minThe workers take over the plant and it is destroyed by an explosion. Quatermass gets back to the Rocket Group and prepares to launch his Quatermass II rocket - destination: the asteroid.
- E06
The Destroyers
Sun, 27 Nov· 30 minQuatermass succeeds in launching his rocket and he and Pugh for the asteroid. But Pugh has been over and Quatermass must overcome his attack before he can defeat the evil force on the asteroid.
Cast

John Robinson
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Monica Grey
Paula Quatermass

Hugh Griffith
Dr. Leo Pugh