BBC’s original adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids is coming to Blu-ray

A restored version of the BBC’s 1981 adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Day Of The Triffids is coming to Blu-ray next month. 

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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…

Starring John Duttine, Emma Relph and Maurice Colbourne, the series was adapted by Douglas Livingstone from Wyndham’s novel.

This Blu-ray release features a restored version of the drama taken from the original film and also includes a restoration featurette and collectors’ booklet.

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