A brilliant meteor shower blinds most of the population, making them vulnerable to attack by triffids: ambulatory, carnivorous plants accidentally freed from a lab. Still able to see, Bill Masen (John Duttine) and Jo Payton (Emma Relph) team up to fight the menace. As they discover more sighted survivors, they find that civilization is crumbling around them from the triffid attack.
This chilling BBC miniseries is based on John Wyndham's book.
Haven't seen this since my teach showed this to my class at school. This poses the question: 'Why did they show this at school?' I'm loving the bleak BBC vibe of this show
Rewatching this for the 60th+ time - I love Wyndham's story and this 1980 version is MUCH better than the original in B&W. Plus, Emma Relph was very pretty!