BBC Studios will release on Blu-ray the classic TV mini-series
The Day of the Triffids (1981), starring John Duttine, Emma Relph, and Maurice Colbourne. The release will be available purchase on September 7.
Synopsis: The original BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's classic story of post-apocalyptic survival.
Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain's population blind. Bill Masen, 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 been 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. For Masen, life is now a desperate struggle…
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW RESTORATION
- Restoration featurette
- Collector's Booklet
- Optional English SDH subtitles