Humanity's first rocket to the moon is being built, headed by Professor Bernard Quatermass while the government wants to use space as the battlefield of the future, and tries to make the project scientific as possible. When a routine test goes wrong, the push for the moon mission will lead to a horrifying discovery that endangers Earth. The aliens are coming.
The residents of Hobb's Lane and that corner of London suffer nightmares regularly due to the presence of the alien influence which they're ignorant of, but their warnings to a newly moved boy who dismisses their warnings... but will he have a change of heart after a night of hell?
Spoilers for Quatermass and the Pit. The moment Professor Quatermass has been dreading for so long - the military taking over his beloved research unit into space exploration - has happened. And it brings back bad memories.
"Batteries don't give people superpowers!" "Yes. What in our realm of physics can exist that cannot be reproduced, what…? It's not a battery." What is the nature of the music inside the box?
Time meddler Noys Lambent sees Professor Quatermass as an ideal target to see what happens.