The Day of the Triffids

Bill Masen (Duttine - Out of the Blue) is in a London hospital recovering from an operation to restore his sight.He works at a triffid-oil processing farm and was blinded when one of them stung him.It is the night before his bandages are due to come off and he is missing the fantastic comet display, a once-in-a-lifetime event.The whole world is watching it, but him. The next day the hospital is strangely silent. No one is about.No one answers his call. No one comes to remove his bandages,so he does it himself - to find that, though he can now see, no one else can. As panic sets in,lawlessness and mob rule take over. Masen rescues a sighted young woman,Jo Payton (Emma Relph - The Witches),from a street gang who need sighted slaves to survive. And there is another, more sinister development.Triffids - monstrous,alien,carnivorous plants - have moved upon the capital and are slaughtering the population with their lethal sting and herding the rest - for what? It's obvious that London has become too dangerous to remain.But Bill and Jo's departure is delayed when Jack Coker (Maurice Colbourne - Howards Way), who is helping the sightless at the University, forces Bill to go foraging for food. He escapes,and later returns - to find the University abandoned. Bill's search for Jo takes him into the country, where triffids are now in control. Eventually, he tracks her down to a farmhouse community in the country. Where the triffids are gathering in force? John Wyndham was one of the major science-fiction writers of the post World War II period.He also wrote as John Beynon,John Beynon Harris,Johnson Harris,Lucas Parkes,and Wyndham Parkes. Published in 1951, The Day Of The Triffids was the first of his novels to really capture the public imagination.It entered the bestseller lists and was made into a film. Other novels include The Secret People, Stowaway to Mars, The Kraken Wakes,The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos,Trouble with Lichen,Chocky and Web. He also wrote a number of short story collections, the best known of which are Jizzle, The Seeds of Time and Consider Her Ways. He died in 1969. The Day Of The Triffids also co-stars David Swift as Beadley and Gary Olsen (2 Point 4 Children) as Torrence.

"Superb television... a worthy successor to series like Quatermass." Yorkshire Post

The original BBC mini-series based on John Wyndhams? classic story of post-apocalyptic survival finally arrives on DVD! All humans eat vegetables. But what if we were the helpless ones, and the plants were eating us? Following the Earth?s close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain?s population blind. Bill Masen, recovering in a London hospital from a vicious plant attack, is one of only a few people to survive with his eyesight intact. But the world he emerges to has altered terrifyingly into a nightmare where man-eating plants?the triffids?are gathering in force!