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Quatermass and the Pit
Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's "Quatermass" serials, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called "Quatermass". Like its predecessors, "Quatermass and the Pit" was written by Nigel Kneale.
The serial continues the loose chronology of the Quatermass adventures. Workmen excavating a site in Knightsbridge, London
for the part; Cartier had previously offered it to André Morell, who declined the role. (Morell did later play Quatermass in the third instalment of the series, "Quatermass and the Pit".) Victor Carroon was played by Scottish actor Duncan Lamont, who later appeared in the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), and as a different character in the film adaptation of "Quatermass and the Pit" (1967). He enjoyed working on "The Quatermass Experiment" so much that, although