The Day of the Triffids (1981)

The BBC's adaptation of John Wyndham's classic, post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel.

Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain's population blind. Bill Mason, 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 already 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.

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