John Duttine
Bill Masen
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- 1. Episode 1 Sep 10, 1981
- While recovering from an accident, Bill Masen doesn't realize that the world changed overnight.
- 2. Episode 2 Sep 17, 1981
- Bill realizes something terrible has happened; while leaving the hospital, he meets Jo Payton.
- 3. Episode 3 Sep 24, 1981
- Bill and Jo sight a signal from the University Tower where survivors have formed.
A classic post-apocalyptic novel by John Wyndham about a world where most people are blinded by a meteor shower and triffids, venomous plants, attack them. The protagonist, Bill Masen, tries to survive and find his lover Josella in a chaotic and dangerous landscape.
With Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore. After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
- (9K)
- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
- 1963-04-27
A British sci-fi horror film based on John Wyndham's novel, starring Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey. It follows the survivors of a meteor shower that blinds most people and unleashes deadly plants called triffids.
Fantastic, frightening and entirely plausible, DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS is a post-apocalyptic story based on a simple hypothesis - mass blindness coupled with the natural disaster of a mobile stinging plant called the triffid created by genetic engineering gone sour! Wyndham's genius is how he uses the tale of his still sighted protagonists, Bill ...
- (109.6K)
- Paperback
The Day of the Triffids: Created by Richard Mewis. With Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox. With most of the world blinded and the dangerous carnivorous Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered survivors to fight this plant invasion and the madness following.
- (4.8K)
- 2009-12-28
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- 93
A movie adaptation of John Wyndham's novel about a meteor shower that blinds most of the population and unleashes carnivorous plants. Follow the survival story of Bill Masen, one of the few sighted people, and his encounter with a young girl and a scientist.
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
