SciFi A-Z #First shown in 1958

An intense and thought-provoking play written for television by J B Priestley in which Tom Dyson has a dream about a nuclear war and having to shoot his horrifically injured wife and daughter. Broadcast in London, the Midlands, the North of England, Wales and West of England, and Central Scotland.

Professor Bernard Quatermass returned for one last time on the BBC Television Service in 1958/59. When a strange capsule is opened, something is unleashed upon the streets of London that nobody can control and mankind's past and future collide with devastating consequences.

ITV series loosely inspired by the 1897 novel by H G Wells.