The Day of the Triffids
1981 · BBC One · 30 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Episode 6
Thu, 15 Oct, 9:00 pm
Bill and Jo find themselves trapped in a Sussex farmhouse by growing numbers of triffids.
About
A meteor shower blinds nearly the entire population of Earth and Bill Masen believes himself to be the last sighted person on the planet. Triffids are a mobile, carnivorous plant that Bill cultivates for their oil. When the Triffids get loose and are released on the blind population, they begin to feed on and kill the helpless humans.
Episodes
- E01
Episode 1
Thu, 10 Sept· 30 minBill Masen removes his eye bandages in hospital and gets a nasty shock.
- E02
Episode 2
Thu, 17 Sept· 30 minBill Masen leaves hospital to find the streets of London eerily deserted.
- E03
Episode 3
Thu, 24 Sept· 30 minBill and Jo try to find refuge from the panic-stricken streets of London and the danger of the triffids.
- E04
Episode 4
Thu, 1 Oct· 30 minBill finds himself kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from Jo.
- E05
Episode 5
Thu, 8 Oct· 30 minDespite spreading disease, Bill continues his search for Jo among the marauding triffids.
- E06
Episode 6
Thu, 15 Oct· 30 minBill and Jo find themselves trapped in a Sussex farmhouse by growing numbers of triffids.
Cast
John Duttine
Bill
Emma Relph
Jo
Maurice Colbourne
Coker
Jonathan Newth
Dr. Soames
Perlita Neilson
Miss Durrant
Jenny Lipman
Mary
Desmond Adams
Dennis