Quatermass II

Quatermass II is a British television science-fiction serial, the second in the popular and influential Quatermass series written by Nigel Kneale. It was first transmitted on BBC Television in the autumn of 1955, and is the first of the Quatermass serials to survive in its entirety in the BBC archives.

Plot

Following the events of The Quatermass Experiment, Professor Bernard Quatermass is now working on a powerful new rocket, as well as a project to establish permanent bases on the moon. However, all is not well on Earth: strange objects are falling from the sky and many senior governmental figures are behaving oddly. One of these strange objects is brought to Quatermass at his lab by Captain John Dillon, the fiancé of Quatermass's niece Paula.

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The Professor's suspicions are aroused and he travels to Winnerden Flats, which seems to be the centre of the occurrences. There he finds a huge synthetic food plant which he is shocked to realise is an exact replica of one of his proposed moon bases. When Dillon also becomes infected by 'the mark' and begins opposing Quatermass, he faces a race against time to discover the cause of the alien infection and a way to combat it.

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He finds that figures to the highest levels of power in Britain have been marked, and with little time left to prevent a catastrophe, he and his assistant Dr Leo Pugh are forced to use Quatermass's experimental rocket and attempt to fight the alien menace in space.

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