Quatermass (1979)

0.0/10 Drama Fantasy Science-Fiction
Quatermass

Quick Facts

Premiered
Oct 1979
Runtime
60 mins
Language
English
Status
Ended

Networks

ITV1

Storyline

In the near future, civilisation has broken down to the barest fragment of recognisable life. Young people are forming gangs and dominating the wrecks of cities like London. But the strangest Earth-children are the Planet people, following plumb-bobs to sacred sites, waiting to be "Taken Up". Professor Quatermass, seeking his granddaughter, teams up with Joe Kapp, who is trying to analyse strange signals from space using the last working pieces of electronic equipment. They find the Planet People at a nearby stone circle, a light appears, the signal appears, - and the hippy children are gone. Russian plot? Nirvana? Or something altogether more sinister?

Cast

John Mills
John Mills
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Simon MacCorkindale
Simon MacCorkindale
Joe Kapp