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The Day of the Triffids is a British science fiction drama serial which was first aired by BBC Television in 1981. An adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, the six half-hour episodes were produced by David Maloney and directed by Ken Hannam, with original music by Christopher Gunning. [1]
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The Day of the Triffids is a drama made in 2009. It is a loose adaptation of John Wyndham's 1951 novel of the same title. [1] The novel had been adapted in 1962 as a theatrical film and by the BBC in a 1981 series.
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The series was broadcast in 1981 and is generally very close to the book. It is set in the then present day rather than the 1950s (although, as my timeline shows, the story could not really be set in the 1950s anyway).
Low-key, yet ambitiously wide in scope, personal, yet with wide-ranging implications, 'The Day of the Triffids' is an almost textbook example of how to successfully and respectfully take a source material and transfer it into a genre classic for the television screen.
The Day of the Triffids: With John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Jonathan Newth. When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
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Bill, who works at a farm for deadly plants called triffids, was temporarily blinded by one of them and is now in hospital. The hour approaches for the bandages over his eyes to come off, but a strange silence pervades the room.