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Hammer Horror: Quatermass and the Pit

on BBC Two England

Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover

Professor Quatermass, hero of the popular 50s science-fiction TV series, is faced with a terrifying adversary of diabolic proportions. Building work on a London Underground extension unearths some unusual prehistoric remains and a strange rocket-like object that a bomb disposal expert deduces to be an unknown Nazi weapon. But Quatermass has other ideas about its origins...

Films: page 19

Contributors

Original story and screenplay:
Nigel Kneale
Producer:
Anthony Nelson
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Dr Roney:
James Donald
Quatermass:
Andrew Keir
Barbara Judd:
Barbara Shelley
Col Breen:
Julian Glover
Sladden:
Duncan Lamont
Capt Potter:
Bryan Marshall
Howell:
Peter Copley
Minister:
Edwin Richfield
Police Sgt Ellis:
Grant Taylor
Sgt Cleghorn:
Maurice Good
Watson:
Robert Morris
Journalist:
Sheila Steafel
Sapper West:
Hugh Futcher
Johnson:
Keith Marsh
Cpl Gibson:
James Culliford
Miss Dobson:
Bee Duffell

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