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The Day of the Triffids Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1981 - 1981
Episode 1
Part One
26 mins
Bill Masen wakes in hospital after an eye operation,the result of being stung by a triffid,an oil-yielding plant at the farm where he works. Walter,his boss,believes the triffids to be intelligent,cunning beings with the capacity for malice and Bill was also stung,though not severely,as a child by a triffid in his father's garden. The previous night most of the country,including hospital staff,were thrilling at a spectacular meteor shower but Bill,on removing his bandages,discovers that everybody who witnessed it has been blinded by its intense light.
Episode 2
Part Two
26 mins
Bill leaves hospital to find the city deserted and devoid of all amenities. He comes across a family whose little girl is still sighted and who want him to stay and help them but he presses on through streets filled with blind looters in search of other sighted survivors. He rescues Jo,who slept through the meteor shower and is being used by a blind man as his guide, and they go to her house,only to find that her father and house-keeper have been stung to death by the now ambulant and deadlier triffids. On their way to find guns they are attacked by an angry mob of blind people.
Episode 3
Part Three
27 mins
Escaping the mob Jo and Bill obtain triffid guns from the farm and have dinner in a show flat,planning to leave for the country next day. After seeing people's spokesman Jack Coker unsuccessfully try and rally the Army to help the blind,they join a group of organized survivors about to leave London next day. However Bill wakes in the night to find that he has been tied up.
Episode 4
Part Four
27 mins
Bill is captured by Coker and separated from Jo as both are forced to act as guides for groups of blind people. Bill is hand-cuffed to his charges on foraging raids but uses the opportunity to release himself when attacked by another group of scavengers. Nonetheless he agrees to stay with his group but,following illness which sweeps through the house and the triffids,attracted by noise,getting closer,he finds himself alone again and goes in search of Jo.
Episode 5
Part Five
28 mins
Bill fails to find Jo but,seeing the address Tynsham House,Wiltshire,on a blackboard,travels there with Coker. They find part of the London group there and,seeing the future as reliant on community living,Coker stays whilst Bill,remembering the name of a commune in Sussex Jo once gave him,presses on. He picks up orphaned child Susan and is eventually reconciled with Jo and her friends. He returns to Tynsham House to tell Coker but finds he has gone and all the other residents have died of the sickness. Meanwhile the triffids' numbers are increasing.
Episode 6
Part Six
27 mins
Six years have passed. Jo and Bill are still at their heavily fortified commune with their friends,Susan and their own son David but the triffids' attacks are increasing,despite an electric fence. Jack Coker arrives by helicopter from the Isle of Wight,where triffids have been exterminated and invites Bill and his group to join him there. However next day they are visited by a para-military group calling itself the Emergency Council for the South East,who want to requisition the compound and move in more people. That night Bill gets all the visitors drunk and,after they have passed out,escapes with his friends and family to head for the Isle of Wight.
