Drama / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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.


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

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

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

Bill finds himself kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from Jo.

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

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

Bill Masen

Jo Payton

Jack Coker

David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.

In a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda, abducts his half-brother, Verezzi, and torments him into believing his lover, Julia, has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution, and eternal damnation.