Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial, the third of four in the famous Quatermass series by writer Nigel Kneale. It was originally broadcast by the BBC over the winter of 1958–59.

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British - Television science-fiction - Quatermass - Nigel Kneale - BBC - 1958 - 59

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Generally regarded by critics and fans as the most successful of the Quatermass serials, it was the last one to be produced by the BBC in the 1950s, and the last television outing of the character anywhere for twenty years. In this installment of the series, the eponymous hero Professor Bernard Quatermass finds himself becoming involved in the discovery of a bizarre object at an archeological dig in Knightsbridge, London. As the serial progresses, Quatermass and his allies find that the contents of the object have a horrific influence over those who come into contact with it, and darker implications about the entire nature of mankind.

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1950s - Archeological - Knightsbridge - London - Mankind

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In a 2000 poll of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute, it was voted at number seventy-five in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, where it was described as: "Completely gripping, under the guise of genre it tackled serious themes of man's hostile nature and the military's perversion of science for its own ends." {{ref|linkref01}}

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2000 - British Film Institute - 100 Greatest British Television Programmes - 20th century

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