Day of the Triffids
TV Show · Sci-Fi · Action

After an accident with a poisonous and carnivorous triffid plant, a hospitalised farmer awakens in a world that has changed overnight in the wake of a meteorite shower. Adaptation of the novel by John Wyndham.

1981 · 25m
Starring John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne
Director Ken Hannam

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    Bill Masen is lying in his hospital bed as he recovers from an accident with a triffid, a poisonous and carnivorous plant, that has left him temporarily blind. What he doesn't realise is that, overnight, the world has changed.
    25 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    It slowly dawns on Bill that something truly terrible has happened overnight. Leaving the hospital, he meets and forms a bond with Jo Payton. Jo also missed the comet's display and so, like Bill, has not suffered the blindness visited upon others.
    25 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Episode 3
    Bill and Jo sight a signal from the University Tower where a group of survivors have formed, and they both face a difficult moral decision about helping others. Bill becomes increasingly concerned about the triffids attacking.
    26 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Episode 4
    Now separated from Jo, Bill is held captive by Coker and forced to do his bidding, leading the blind and foraging for food. If he is ever to find Jo again he will have to escape.
    26 min
  • EPISODE 5
    Episode 5
    As the people are dying, the triffids seem to be multiplying in number. Bill returns to the University looking for Jo and runs into Coker again before heading south.
    27 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Episode 6
    Bill and Jo have settled into life at the farmhouse, becoming self-sufficient and fending off triffid attacks with flame-throwers. But their quiet peace is soon to be shattered.
    26 min

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Cast & Crew

  • John Duttine
    Bill Masen
  • E‌R
    Emma Relph
    Josella Payton
  • Maurice Colbourne
    Jack Coker
  • S‌Y
    Stephen Yardley
    John
  • G‌O
    Gary Olsen
    Torrence
  • K‌H
    Ken Hannam
    Director
  • D‌M
    David Maloney
    Producer
  • D‌L
    Douglas Livingstone
    Writer
  • Christopher Gunning
    Music

About

Day of the Triffids

Sci-Fi

After an accident with a poisonous and carnivorous triffid plant, a hospitalised farmer awakens in a world that has changed overnight in the wake of a meteorite shower. Adaptation of the novel by John Wyndham.

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Studio
BBC1
Released
1981
Rated
PG
© 1981 BBC

Languages

Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English
Audio

English (United Kingdom) (AAC)

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