BBC Archive - #OnThisDay 1981: The television adaptation of The Day of the Triffids was first broadcast. Pictured are Emma Relph as Jo Playton, John Duttine as Bill Masen and a Triffid
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Day of the Triffids Part 1 – The Farmers Becoming the Hunted: Wanderings 31/52 – A Year In The Country
![Classic Film and TV Café: People-eating Plants Stalk Howard Keel and Janette Scott in "The Day of the Triffids" Classic Film and TV Café: People-eating Plants Stalk Howard Keel and Janette Scott in "The Day of the Triffids"](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_k4__zh4GdZA/TDKBRoQ09FI/AAAAAAAABfI/OEsRy0Ha-7c/s1600/triffids.jpg)