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 character reappeared in a 1979
ITV production called
Quatermass. Like its predecessors,
Quatermass and the Pit was written by
Nigel Kneale.