Media1958

BBC begins the serial Quatermass and the Pit

When

Dec 1958

Sources

2 public sources

BBC Television began Nigel Kneale's six-part serial Quatermass and the Pit just before Christmas 1958. In the story, London builders unearth an ancient Martian craft, and Professor Quatermass concludes Martians once altered early human ancestors. It is fiction, not a reported case.