Directed by:
Ken HannamScreenplay:
Douglas LivingstoneComposer:
Christopher GunningCast:
Jonathan Newth, William Morgan Sheppard, Andrew Paul, John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Gary Olsen, Perlita Neilson, Jenny Lipman, Desmond Adams (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(6)
Plots(1)
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 a few to survive with eyesight intact. The world he emerges into has been terrifyingly altered. The government has collapsed, bands of renegades are thriving in the anarchy – and a hostile carnivorous form of plant life, the Triffids, have begun to prey on the weakened and vulnerable human population. For Masen, life is now a desperate struggle. (BBC)
(more)Cast
Jonathan Newth
UK
Best series:
The Crown (2016) (series)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
William Morgan Sheppard
UK
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Dexter (2006) (series)
Young Justice (2010) (series)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Andrew Paul
UK
Best series:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Les Misérables (2018) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
John Duttine
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
The Jury (2002) (series)
Emma Relph
Best series:
The Professionals (1977) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Maurice Colbourne
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Gary Olsen
UK
Best series:
Hale and Pace (1988) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
The Bill (1984) (series)
Perlita Neilson
UK
Best series:
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
William Tell (1958) (series)
Jenny Lipman
Best series:
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Desmond Adams
Best series:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Pride and Prejudice (1980) (series)
Elizabeth Chambers
UK
Best series:
To Play the King (1993) (series)
One Foot in the Grave (1990) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Morris Barry
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Are You Being Served? (1972) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Bernie Searle
Best series:
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
The Bill (1984) (series)
John Hollis
UK
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Doctor Who (1963) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Blakes 7 (1978) (series)
Cleo Sylvestre
UK
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The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
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John Benfield
Best series:
The Black Tower (1985) (series)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Chris Gannon
Ireland
Best series:
Doctor in the House (1969) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Dad's Army (1968) (series)
Robert Robinson
Canada
Best series:
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
David Swift
UK
Best series:
The Storyteller (1987) (series)
Shroud for a Nightingale (1984) (series)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Denis DeMarne
UK
Best series:
David Copperfield (1974) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Peter the Great (1986) (series)