Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science fiction drama horror serial, consisting of 6 episodes, which were originally transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. Imps and Demons (E3): Journalist James Fullalove helps Quatermass research the history of Hobbs Lane, finding its name derives from Hob - the devil. A technician, Sladden, succeeds in opening a sealed compartment in the capsule, revealing three petrified alien insects. It features André Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton, Christine Finn, and Michael Ripper. Serial synopsis: Workmen excavating a site in Knightsbridge, London, discover a strange skull and what at first appears to be an unexploded bomb. Quatermass and his newly appointed military superior at the British Rocket Group, Colonel Breen, become involved in the investigation when it becomes apparent that the object is an alien spacecraft. The ship and its contents have a powerful and malignant influence over many of those who come in contact with it, including Quatermass. He concludes that millions of years in the past the aliens, probably from Mars, had abducted pre-humans and modified them to give them psychic abilities much like their own before returning them to Earth, leaving a genetic legacy which is responsible for much of the war and racial strife in the world.