Screenplay: Nigel Kneale

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Mary Ure · Edith Evans

Plot Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with...

Direction Rudolph Cartier

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Yvonne Mitchell · Donald Pleasence

Plot Peter Cushing stars as Winston Smith, a man tired of the oppressive government. Big Brother is always watching in a world where individual thought, actions, and feelings are a crime....

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Plot The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast James Donald · Andrew Keir · Barbara Shelley · Julian Glover

Plot Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Laurence Olivier · Brenda De Banzie · Joan Plowright · Roger Livesey

Plot Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical...

Direction Val Guest

Cast Brian Donlevy · John Longden · Sid James · Bryan Forbes

Plot Sequel to THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT in which Professor Quatermass, investigating an area of much meteroric activity, discovers that a government research station is instead a center for gaseous aliens from...

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Adrian Rawlins · Bernard Hepton · David Daker · Pauline Moran

Plot When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant...

Direction Peter Sasdy

Cast Michael Bryant · Jane Asher · Iain Cuthbertson · Michael Bates

Plot A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost,...

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Edward Judd · Martha Hyer · Lionel Jeffries · Miles Malleson

Plot H.G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring unforgettable extra-terrestrial creatures....

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast John Mills · Simon MacCorkindale · Barbara Kellerman · Margaret Tyzack

Plot The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name. Like the earlier Quatermass projects of the 1950s and 1960s, the guiding force...

Direction Val Guest

Cast Forrest Tucker · Peter Cushing · Maureen Connell · Richard Wattis

Plot Botanical scientists John Rollason (Peter Cushing) and Peter Fox (Richard Wattis) are the hosts of the kindly, but mysterious Lhama (Arnold Marle). Besides appearing to have extra-sensory perception, the Lhama...

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Joan Fontaine · Kay Walsh · Alec McCowen · Ann Bell

Plot An English school teacher outposted in Africa has a run in with the local witch doctor and suffers a nervous breakdown. After recovering back in England she takes a job...

Direction John Cooper

Cast David Simeon · Bernard Lee · Una Brandon-Jones · David Neal

Plot A young country vet begins to suspect that the local farmland is under the spell of a witch.

Direction Sam Miller

Cast Jason Flemyng · David Tennant · Adrian Dunbar · Mark Gatiss

Plot A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely...

Direction Don Taylor · Richard Bramall · Don Leaver · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Michael Kitchen · Bernard Horsfall · Patrick Magee · Anthony Bate

Plot An anthology series concerning bestial horror created by Nigel Kneale. A clumsy shopgirl becomes convinced that there is something sinister living behind the walls of the shop where she works....

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Alfred Burke · Bryan Pringle · Ronald Pickup · Fiona Walker

Plot A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.

Direction Rudolph Cartier

Cast John Robinson · Monica Grey · Hugh Griffith · Nigel Kneale

Plot Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law,...

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Daragh O'Malley · Hugh Fraser · John Tams

Plot Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husbands.

Direction Rudolph Cartier

Cast André Morell · Cec Linder · Anthony Bushell · John Stratton

Plot When a skull is found during building works at Knightsbridge, London, the work is halted in order that a full archaeological dig can proceed. The diggers delve deeper, finding more...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast John Mills · Simon MacCorkindale · Barbara Kellerman · Ralph Arliss

Plot In the near future, civilization has broken down to the barest fragment of recognizable life. Young people are forming gangs and dominating the wrecks of cities like London. But the...