This BBC release collects together writer Nigel Kneale's three original series featuring pioneering rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Rocket Group. Includes: The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958).

The Quatermass Experiment: The plan was to pilot a manned rocket some 1500 miles above the earth for observation purposes and then to return. The project looked very reasonable in theory, but in practice...

Quatermass II: Professor Quatermass is testing prototypes of a second space rocket but has a crushing setback. With his research at a standstill, there is a curious interruption.

Quatermass & The Pit: Professor Quatermass is resisting the planners of a rocket-project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent. Meanwhile excavation is going on at Hobbs Lane, long the site of reported imps and devils...