Trollenberg Terror, The

1 9 5 6 (UK)
6 x 30 minute episodes

This six-part science-fiction thriller from ATV aired on Saturday nights in 1956 and featured unexplained disappearances and gruesome deaths among climbers of the grim Trollenberg Mountain in Switzerland.

Ann Pilgrim (New Zealand actress Rosemary Miller) – an English woman who has a psychic stage act with her sister, Sarah (Sarah Lawson) – receives a premonition of great danger associated with the mountain.

Meanwhile, an observatory detects a cloud on the mountainside which gives off radioactive readings and never moves. As the cloud starts to move down the mountain, killing people along the way, the astronomers realise they are dealing with an invasion of aliens who have come from a dying world and have selected the cold Alpine mountain as the environment which most resembles their home planet.

A 1958 film version starring Forrest Tucker, Warren Mitchell, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro and Laurence Payne was released as The Crawling Eye in the US.

George Brett
Glyn Owen
Sarah Pilgrim
Sarah Lawson
Philip Truscott
Laurence Payne
Ann Pilgrim
Rosemary Miller
Albert
Ronan O’Casey
Dr Spielmann
Frederick Schrecker
Petitjean
Michael Anthony
Professor Crevet
Raf De La Torre

Episodes

The Mind of Ann Pilgrim | First Blood | The Giggle of Madness | The Power of the Ixodes | The Trap | Final Episode