The Day of the Triffids

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~26 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN

The Day of the Triffids (1981)

Created by Douglas Livingstone
⭐ 3.3 / 5 (41 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

Recovering in hospital from a blinding triffid sting, Bill Masen, wakes up to an uncanny silence...

E2 Episode 2

His sight restored, Bill sees the new world of blindness and panic menaced by triffids...

E3 Episode 3

Bill and Jo try to find refuge from the panic-stricken streets of London and the dangers of the triffids.

E4 Episode 4

Bill finds himself kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from Jo.

E5 Episode 5

Bill continues his search for Jo, through the spreading disease and maurading triffids...

E6 Episode 6

Six years later in the Sussex farmhouse, Bill and Jo find themselves cut off by growing numbers of triffids...